Overheard in Tech Support: Certifications
Sealevel’s in-house team of Compliance & Test Engineers uses cross-department collaboration and a “design for certification” approach to meet environmental, safety and security standards. Our second “Overheard in Tech Support” video looks at common certifications including ATEX and IECEx and how Sealevel designs – and tests – products to meet demands.
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00:00:02 point two take two mark uh check check it's like okay hi i am jim and i am a c-level tech support representative did you hear the latest news about the ukca mark and how it changes certification requirements you know i never miss that stuff mommy uh i'd like to say my favorite part of the job
00:00:25 is knowing about our product certifications you could say i take it pretty seriously is that phone tested and certified against ip huh ip has an ingress protection as in you're using your phone right next to the water cooler
00:00:43 you know sea level does rigorous in-house testing before completing the certification process on any product that might be affected by rain humidity immersion i also got experience with dust too you know like the dust accumulating onto your desk oh
00:01:03 this one has atex certification let me just go in somewhere with the potential for explosions so then the choppers oh send in the choppers yeah well did you know that that could mean gas dust fibers or vapors yeah that's a good explosion why could he not be excited about this stuff i mean think about it this is how we make
00:01:30 sure our products can go anywhere a lot of times we lump that into a category called haslock but really that only applies to an environment conducive to fire and explosions but there's so much more there's so much more i'll give it yeah i'll keep it that i'm sorry the hazmat computer is c1 d2
00:01:50 certified yes all groups abcd and t4 so it has been tested against those specific materials yes ma'am oh yes this has been designed and tested to exceed military specifications for shock and vibration so it'll stand up to your environment as a part of our design process we'll do
00:02:14 initial testing with our on-site thermal chambers to improve and refine our design before sending off for official certification yes ma'am uh-huh no thank you no thank you okay okay bye you know some people have called me a
00:02:35 certification superstar but really it's all just a day's work at sea level i do work hard though a hard worker [Music] you