All the electronic appliances should be tested before releasing to the market in order to assure that those are safe to use and meet certain standards set by the authorities. There are two types of tests that can warrant the quality and safety of appliances prior to market launch. One is called “production calibration” and the other is “type testing”. Production calibration involves testing the appliances during the manufacturing process. Type testing is also known as conformance testing and it ensures the quality of appliances before launch.
According to law terms and regulations in UK, the appliances should be tested when they are in use. Testing at this stage break into two, which are “in-service testing” and “testing after repair”. In-service testing is to make sure safety of the people who are using appliances, in most cases at work. The testing process guarantees that the wire codes, plugs, switches, fuses, indicators are at optimum working condition and not damaged. If there is any damaged appliance, the testers may either fix the damages or replace the particular appliance. For added safety, the repaired appliances should test again (“testing after repair”) to be certain about its condition. All the testing processes are legal requirements to keep the possible dangers away from the users.
Many companies outsource these testing projects to services which have the skilled and trained testers. For some of the companies, conducting tests costs a lot. The most convenient option for them is to have an in-house testing team rather than hiring team from outside to do the test. Companies can select set of their employees to work as their testing team in addition to the current tasks they perform or have dedicated team for the testing. There are reputed services offering training courses and programs for the in-house testing teams. Usually, those services are easy to find on the online than off-line. Professional training service providers may able to come to business premises or the company can send the team their place to participate in the training course. At the end of training, probably there would be an examination which the participants have to go through in order to receive the certificates.
In UK, as per law and regulations, it is must for all the businesses to do PAT (Portable Appliances Testing) testing for all the electronic appliances they use. TTS offers PAT Testing, PAT Training and related services to the businesses, visit TTS PAT Training Services today at http://www.pattrainingnow.co.uk/