EMC Consulting and Testing
With more than 30 years of combined experience with EMC consulting and diagnostic testing, our team of engineers is well versed in all aspects of design for electromagnetic compliance.
We are not an accredited FCC certification lab. We are an independent RF and EMC consulting engineering firm that tests, diagnoses, and fixes RF/EMC/RFI problems – before FCC certification, after a regulatory failure, or when you just need something to work.
We have a screen room, a lab, and a garage large enough to test a full vehicle. Our principal engineer holds 10+ issued RF patents and our team has been solving RF and EMC problems since 2006. If you have a problem and no clear path to solving it, that’s what we’re here for. We know that failing regulatory testing and EMC/RFI problems can delay product launch, increase redesign costs, and disrupt production timelines.
Not sure what to look for in an EMC consultant?
If your prototype or product is failing regulatory tests, we provide efficient RF and PCB-level mitigation strategies to help products pass radiated and conducted emissions testing. Our in-house screen room allows us to find and solve your existing RFI/EMI issues, or to pre-screen for possible regulatory failures before you even begin compliance testing. We will also follow your product through final certification at your preferred test lab, and fix problems as they arise.
Our expertise spans medical devices, avionics systems, satellite communications, automotive, consumer, utility, and other compliance-critical platforms.
Call us at (919) 374-0773 to get started.
Need to pass regulatory certification?
Failed compliance tests? Not sure if you will pass FCC certification?
Pre-compliance screening – before you book the test house
- Screen your device in our lab before committing to a test window
- Find and fix FCC Part 15 (and other regulatory standards) radiated and conducted emissions failures first
- Fix the problem before you certify – not after you’ve burned a test window
Post-failure diagnosis and redesign
- Diagnose exactly why you failed
- RF circuit and PCB-level redesign to fix the root cause
- Re-screen in our lab before you go back to the test house
White-glove test house support
- We attend FCC Part 15 and many other types of certification testing with you and manage the process on-site
- Catch bad test setups before they affect your results
- Stop the clock if your device is defective by pre-screening in our lab
- Feedback throughout your test window – no surprises at the end
Does your device have an RF/EMC problem?
No certification deadline. No formal spec. Just something that doesn’t work right.
- Self-interference and RFI debugging – your electronics are fighting each other and you need to find the source
- ESD testing and debugging – test, diagnose, fix, repeat until it passes
- Testing to your customer’s internal or proprietary specifications
- “I don’t have a spec – my device just doesn’t work right” – a valid starting point we hear regularly
Do you need an independent lab to verify RF/EMC performance?
Your customer has their own specs. Your vendor built the hardware. You need someone independent to verify it actually works.
- Third-party RF performance testing against customer-defined specifications
- FCC Part 15 and Part 25 pre-compliance screening for satellite and all types of communications equipment
- Device-level RF/EMC performance verification – independent of the design house that built it
- Our credentials – we serve as a trusted outside test lab for various aerospace and satellite clients verifying vendor hardware
FCC/EN TYPE APPROVAL CONSULTING
- Failing EMC Pre-Compliance or Need FCC Certification? We diagnose and redesign RF hardware so products pass FCC, EC, MIL-STD-461, and other requirements. Sanders RF Consulting is your first choice for assistance in FCC/EN certification for your electronic product.
- We have the capability to do extensive radiated emissions diagnostic pre-testing in our own laboratory and screen room. This helps to ensure that our clients’ products will “pass” during the certification phase. Pre-compliance planning reduces risk before formal testing.
- We assist with FCC, EC, MIL-STD-461, IEC 60601, DO-160 certification testing at accredited lab test partners.
- Our EMC consulting engineers facilitate all certification testing, providing timely test result reviews when given updates from the test facility, and we modify the product to improve test results. We support you through final certification.
- We are experts in compliance testing to FCC, EC, and MIL-STD-461 requirements. If you have an RFI/EMC/EMI problem, contact us today.
EMC/RFI Consulting and Diagnostic Testing
- Our EMC consulting covers all aspects of electromagnetic compliance: ESD, transients, bulk current injection, radiated emissions, radiated susceptibility, conducted emissions
- In-house screen room for EMC/FCC diagnostic pre-certification testing
- Radiated and conducted emissions troubleshooting:
- Radiated emissions exceeding FCC limits
- Conducted emissions failures
- Poor grounding and return path control
- Shielding inefficiencies
- RF interference between subsystems
- Mixed-signal noise coupling
- Susceptibility issues in regulated environments
- RF circuit and PCB layout design review for compliance:
- EMC-focused schematic and layout reviews
- Stack-up evaluation
- Filtering, shielding, and suppression strategy
- Ground partitioning recommendations
- Lab pre-scan preparation
- Coordination with test facilities
- Experienced in resolving latent EMC/RFI issues
- EMC product design reviews to help insure compliance during actual certification testing
- EMC consulting experience spanning automotive, consumer, medical, and industrial platforms – solving RFI and electromagnetic compatibility problems since 2006
Have a product with an RFI/EMC issue or FCC certification problem?
Tell us what you’re working with – we’ll tell you how we’d approach it.