We currently supply our products against the Industrial EMC standards. What will I have to do if we want to sell our products for defence applications?

Defence and Aerospace standards are in most areas a lot more stringent than the generic EMC standards. Your products would need further testing to meet these requirements. Before going into one of these programmes it is recommended that a Gap Analysis is conducted against the requirements from the appropriate defence standard and the standards your product has already been tested against. There will be some areas where your product has already met some defence requirements and may have exceeded some of them. There will be some cross over in areas such as frequency range for test and test levels. By conducting a gap analysis, time and cost should be saved by not having to test your product again for each EMC phenomena. Additionally, at present there is a legal requirement for defence products to be tested against EMC harmonised standards as well as the defence standards. Military equipment used to be exempt in the old EMC Directive but this is no longer the case. A gap analysis technique could also benefit suppliers of defence equipment so they don’t embark on conducting all tests stated within the light industrial or industrial generic standards.

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