Product compliance, demystified: how Raspberry Pi helps you get to market

Done right, product compliance opens up new markets and sets your product apart. Done wrong, it can mean lost sales, destroyed stock, and fines. In this episode, Alex Branton, Global Market Access Lead at Raspberry Pi, talks to Tom Westcott, who leads product compliance, about how Raspberry Pi helps industrial customers bring fully compliant products to market faster.

They cover what product compliance actually means and how testing works, from Raspberry Pi's in-house 3-metre RF anechoic chamber to formal testing at UKAS-accredited labs. Tom explains the extra testing Raspberry Pi carries out, including shock and vibration tests, thermal modelling, reliability studies, UV-accelerated weathering, and XRF material analysis. They also explain how to find declarations of conformity, FCC approvals, and test reports on the Raspberry Pi Product Information Portal (PIP), and how to subscribe to receive product change notifications (PCNs).

The discussion also covers Raspberry Pi’s Global Market Access (GMA) service — which handles country-specific approvals on your behalf — the support available at each stage of the design cycle, and the approved Design Partner network for companies without an in-house design team.

Links and contacts mentioned:

• Raspberry Pi Product Information Portal (PIP): https://pip.raspberrypi.com

• Compliance team: [email protected]

• Applications team (hardware and software support): [email protected]

• Global Market Access team (country approvals): [email protected]

• Raspberry Pi for Industry: https://www.raspberrypi.com/for-industry/

• Raspberry Pi Design Partners: https://www.raspberrypi.com/for-industry/design-partners/

• UKAS (UK Accreditation Service): https://www.ukas.com