The machinery directive 2006/42/ec and the other Community Directives, define all the documentation that the manufacturer or importer of materials, products, machinery or plant must produce to affix the CE mark.
The most important part of the documentation and of the same CE, indicated in all the directives related to the products subjected to marking is represented by the technical file and unluckily as often happens this is the part less known and most neglected, perhaps because it is the most complicated and is at the base of the completion of the product.
The technical dossier is a collection of all the documents made during the design, the construction and the testing of the machine. In it are included the structural calculations, the characteristics of the materials used, the building designs, plans, the documentation of the material by trade, the measurement of airborne noise and of electromagnetic compatibility and all the other main features of the product.
First of all the technical file must include an nanalysis of the risks, that is in fact the starting point of departure of all the necessary work for the CE marking.
The technical dossier should not be provided to the customer, but must be stored at the manufacturer, it is not necessary that is physically present in order to affix theEC mark on the product.
The rules require that, if there is a request by the competent authorities, the manufacturer is able to make it available in the time required.
This aspect makes that often the companies underestimate the problem, leaving to a possible inspection the need to produce the document.
The technical file must be carefully analyzed with a technical that knows, in addition to the technical aspects, also the legal ones.
For this reason, the implementation of this document and the retrieval of all the necessary information for its software represent the more longest part of the work, the more costly and difficult of the CE marking.
Hi,
I need a sample of Technical construction file for electrical equipment such as lighting fixture. Would you please help.
Thank you
Dear Parisa,
the question you are asking is right our job. All I can say (free of charge) to help you is that the Technical file must contain every information about your product, starting from the design, ending to the user manual and the sample of CE mark. We use the blog form for a first answer and simple consulting. Your question is something deeper and we need to get in the matter at a certain level. If you have doubt or anything else, we are at your disposal, but it is better if we talk privately via E-mail.
Best regards
Vanni Spera