Spectrum, garage door safety, and AI standards all saw movement. Here is what it means for manufacturers and compliance teams.
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Electronics recalls and warnings, from space heaters to power banks to alarms that may stay silent, were announced recently.
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Paper deadlines, proposal windows, and comment periods are approaching. Mark your calendar before they pass.
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Counterfeit parts, ignored letters, and the odd twists behind them. A wry look at strange stories from the world of compliance.
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Manufacturers that rely on overseas test labs have a new factor to weigh as the FCC narrows which laboratories it recognizes. The limits reach non-reciprocal economies, including labs accredited through TCBs. Read how the Report and Order could reshape where products are tested for FCC approval.
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Telecom regulators from five nations compared notes on threats to communications infrastructure and left with shared commitments. Supply chain security, scam prevention, and AI-related risks all made the agenda. See what the group agreed to pursue together and what it signals for industry security priorities.
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Every compliance project starts with a question about risk. Our team works with engineers every day to turn standards into practical design decisions, from early concept through final testing. This space is reserved for a message from our issue sponsor’s expert on the topic of this issue, written in their own words and kept to 75 words or fewer.
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Learn why a strike to an aircraft’s nose can put flight deck electronics at risk. Follow induced currents through airframes, cables, and shield terminations, and see how test waveforms help engineers protect critical systems in aluminum and carbon fiber composite aircraft.
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Rethink how apparent power, reactive power, and efficiency are calculated for inverters and electric motors. A thermodynamic approach challenges the traditional power triangle and suggests that current methods may understate losses, with consequences for component sizing, battery demands, and thermal management.
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Prepare for China’s final wave of unique device identification requirements before gaps in data, packaging hierarchy, or distributor readiness slow your market access. This practical playbook covers filings, database uploads, exemptions, and the steps overseas manufacturers should take across regulatory, labeling, and supply chain teams.
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Study the facts behind recent CPSC civil penalties to see what conduct draws a huge financial penalty. Late reports, unreported design changes, and repeat violations all appear in the settlements, and the compliance requirements they impose show what the agency expects companies to have in place.
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Contact-first CDM testing solves one problem for chiplet ESD evaluation, but leaves several more unresolved. This second installment examines correlation to FICDM, failure criteria, rise time variability, and sampling strategies for the thousands of die-to-die interfaces packed into next-generation 2.5D and 3D integrated designs.
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Two odd but real compliance stories: billboards that jammed a cell site for years and a winter tool that can fail in the cold. Sources linked.
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Upcoming EMC and compliance dates, including the November 20 EMC+SIPI deadline and 2027 calls for papers from APEMC and EMC Europe.
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Regulatory and standards updates, from an FCC 4.9 GHz committee to the first EU AI Act standard, with what each means for manufacturers.
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Eight electronics recalls and warnings, from toy batteries and a pressure washer shock risk to software issues in hospital equipment.
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Review the final and draft guidances CDRH has targeted for FY 2027, from AI-enabled software to device cybersecurity, and see which planned documents could change how manufacturers prepare premarket submissions and manage devices after they reach the market.
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See why the FCC withdrew accredited recognition from three China-based test laboratories, and what incorrect or false test reports submitted for equipment authorization could mean for manufacturers who rely on outside labs to demonstrate compliance.
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Two voice service providers have been barred from connecting to U.S. telecom networks. Find out what the FCC found in each case and what its Removal Orders require of every other provider that carries traffic on those networks.
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Learn how NIST researchers are using superconducting quantum sensors to sharpen X-ray measurements, and see why filtering out background noise could make nuclear material measurements both more precise and faster to evaluate at nuclear power plants.
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