SGS Certification

SGS is a certification body. It can do management system certification such as factory inspections, product certification (can issue CE, GS certificates), and chemical certification. test. It usually takes 7 to 10 working days to do SGS chemical testing. Generally speaking, it refers to SGS chemical testing, and the most popular chemical testing now is ROHS testing. To do ROHS testing at SGS, you only need to submit the sample and fill out the application. The chemical test is based on the raw materials of the product. Generally, one kind of material costs more than 1,000 yuan.

Reasons for SGS inspection and inspection - Many countries implement the "Comprehensive Import Supervision Plan" COMPREHESIVE IMPORT SUPERVISION SCHEME (CISS). The import regulations of these countries stipulate that goods entering these countries must be inspected by SGS in the export supplier country. Conduct pre-shipment inspection. The purpose of SGS intervention is to assist the governments of CISS countries in the management of customs and/or foreign exchange management systems. Countries implementing CISS include: Angola, Argentina, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central Africa, Congo ***, Ivory Coast, Ecuador, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania , Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia. The following procedures can be followed for SGS inspection: 1. Export transaction. The exporter concludes an export transaction with the importer according to normal trade procedures, and the importer notifies the SGS liaison office in his country of the transaction, and also notifies the exporter that he needs to have SGS-CSTC inspect the goods. After SGS-CSTC receives the notice (inspection number) from the SGS Liaison Office of the importing country, it will fax (mail) a copy to the exporter indicating the "SGS inspection number" (I.O.NO.) and SGS-CSTC "ICN" number. A blank application form for inspection (RFI) is provided to notify the exporter to submit documents and arrange inspection.

2. Apply for inspection. In order to arrange inspection, the exporter needs to fill in the inspection request form (RFI) with the SGS inspection number and fax (send) it together with the following documents to the SGS-CSTC branch nearest to the inspection location. These documents include proforma invoices, proforma packing lists and spare parts lists, product technical specifications, samples, letters of credit, manufacturer test reports (machines/equipment), manufacturer analysis reports (chemical/pharmaceutical/petroleum/dye products), Health certificate (food), phytosanitary certificate (all agricultural products), factory inspection analysis sheet (all steel materials and their primary products). All documents submitted to SGS-CSTC must indicate the SGS inspection number (see the inspection application form for this number). The supplier's detailed information, such as contact person and telephone number, inspection time, inspection location, etc., should be listed on the inspection application form so that SGS-CSTC can contact it to arrange inspection. The exporter must submit the RFI and the above documents to the SGS-CSTC branch 3 working days before the inspection date.

3. SGS-CSTC conducts inspection. SGS-CSTC does not charge any fees from exporters for pre-shipment inspection required by CISS national regulations.

4. The final documents required by SGS-CSTC to issue certificates. After SGS-CSTC completes the inspection, the exporter must fax (send) the final documents to SGS-CSTC Shanghai Economic Affairs Department (EAD) according to country. All documents submitted to SGS-CSTC should be marked with the SGS inspection number (see the inspection application form for this number).

5. How to obtain the SGS safety label. If the letter of credit received by the exporter requires "Affixing an SGS security label on the exporter's invoice" (Security label), the exporter can submit a final export invoice to the nearest SGS-CSTC branch and collect the security label , or require SGS-CSTC to mail the safety label to the exporter. Please note that SGS-CSTC will issue a safety label only after completing the above 1-4 procedures

RoHS certification

RoHS certification is a "restriction of the use of certain electrical and electronic equipment. The English abbreviation of the Hazardous Substances Directive (The restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment), which stipulates that electrical and electronic products containing lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, and polybrominated diphenyl ethers The EU will ban the import of harmful heavy metals such as polybrominated biphenyls and polybrominated biphenyls from July 1, 2006.

RoHS 1*** lists six hazardous substances, including: lead Pb, cadmium Cd, mercury Hg, hexavalent chromium Cr6+, polybrominated diphenyl ethers PBDE, and polybrominated biphenyl PBB.

The RoHS directive restricts the use of the following six categories of hazardous substances

1 Mercury (mercury) Examples of using this substance: thermostats, sensors, switches and relays, light bulbs

< p>2 Examples of lead using this substance: solder, glass, PVC stabilizer

3 Examples of cadmium using this substance: switches, springs, connectors, casings and PCBs, contacts, batteries

4 Chromium (hexavalent) Examples of using this substance: Metal with corrosion coating

5 Polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) Examples of using this substance: Flame retardants, PCBs, connectors, plastic casings

6 Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) Examples of using this substance: flame retardants, PCBs, connectors, plastic housings

ISO certification

ISO It is an international standardization organization whose members are composed of national standardization groups from more than 100 countries in the world. The national agency representing China in ISO is the China State Bureau of Technical Supervision (CSBTS). ISO has close ties with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). China's national agency participating in IEC is also the State Technical Supervision Bureau. ISO and IEC as a whole are responsible for the task of formulating global consensus on international standards. ISO and IEC are both non-governmental organizations. The standards they develop are essentially voluntary, which means that these standards must be excellent standards. They It will bring benefits to the industry and service industry, so they consciously use these standards. ISO and IEC are not United Nations agencies, but they maintain technical liaison relationships with many specialized agencies of the United Nations. ISO and IEC have about 1,000 professional technical committees and subcommittees , Member states participate in the activities of these technical committees and subcommittees on a national basis. ISO and IEC also have about 3,000 working groups. ISO and IEC formulate and revise 1,000 international standards every year.

The content of the standard covers a wide range, from basic fasteners and bearings to various raw materials to semi-finished products and finished products. Its technical fields include information technology, transportation, agriculture, health care and environment. Each working organization has its own work plan, which lists the standard items that need to be developed (test methods, terminology, specifications, performance requirements, etc.).

The main function of ISO is to provide a mechanism for people to reach consensus on formulating international standards. Its main institutions and operating rules are stipulated in a document called ISO/IEC Technical Work Guidelines. Its technical structure in ISO has 800 technical committees and subcommittees, each of which has a chairman and a secretariat. The secretariat is held by each member state. There are currently 30 member groups responsible for the work of the secretariat. Each secretariat maintains direct contact with the ISO Central Secretariat in Geneva.

Through these working organizations, ISO has issued 9,200 international standards, such as ISO metric thread, ISO A4 paper size, ISO container series (currently 95% of the world's shipping containers comply with ISO standards) , ISO's film speed code, ISO's Open System Interconnection (OS2) series (widely used in the field of information technology) and the famous ISO9000 quality management series of standards.

In addition, ISO also has liaison relationships with 450 international and regional organizations on standards, especially with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). There are 28 international standards organizations outside the ISO/IEC system. Each agency develops some international standards in a certain area, and usually they are under the control of the United Nations. A typical example is the 85% of international standards developed by the World Health Organization (WHO). ISO/IEC, and the remaining 15% are developed by these 28 other international standards organizations.

Main certification projects:

1.ISO9000

2.ISO9001

3.ISO14000

4. ISO14001

5.OHSAS18000

6.HACCP

7.ISO/TS16949

ISO certification steps

After carefully reading the ISO standards, you will definitely have the concept that the ISO standards are indeed very comprehensive. They standardize all processes within the enterprise and involve all employees from the top management to the most basic levels of the enterprise. You may think that it must be very difficult to implement such a comprehensive and complex system!

It is undeniable that it is difficult to implement ISO. However, as long as you sincerely regard the implementation of ISO as an important measure to improve the company's management performance and not just show it, regard it as a long-term development. Strategy, steady progress, and careful planning based on the company's specific conditions, ISO will eventually take root in your company.

To put it simply, the implementation of ISO has the following five indispensable processes:

Knowledge preparation-legislation-publicity-implementation-supervision and improvement.

You can plan the above five processes based on your company's specific circumstances, and follow certain implementation steps to guide your company to gradually enter the world of ISO.

The following are typical steps for enterprises to implement ISO. It can be seen that the above five processes are completely included:

○ Identification and diagnosis of the enterprise’s original system;

○ Appoint management representatives and establish an ISO implementation organization;

○ Formulate goals and incentives;

○ Personnel at all levels receive necessary management awareness training;

○ ISO standard knowledge training;

○ System document preparation (legislation);

○ Large-scale publicity, training, release and trial operation of system documents;

< p>○ Internal auditors receive training;

○ Several internal system audits;

○ Manager reviews based on internal audits;

○ Management System improvement and improvement;

○ Apply for certification.

Before implementing ISO, an enterprise should carefully plan the above implementation steps based on the actual situation of the enterprise, and provide specific arrangements in terms of time and activity content to ensure more effective implementation. Effect.

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