Approving your product opens up a whole new section of the market.  Imagine being able to sell your product to whole new sections of industry that were previously off limits. Imagine being able to tell your customers that your system is certified safe for use in a specific area, and having the certificates from the class societies to prove it.

Our unique business model enables customers to send their equipment from anywhere in the world to our laboratory for testing. Alternatively, customers that prefer to visit us to witness the testing firsthand are always made welcome. In both cases we can act as a 'one-stop-shop' for all your type approval testing needs. 

Here at Mariner Systems we can perform all the testing and relevant applications to ensure that this becomes reality. Our test facilities have been designed specifically for marine type approvals but can be used for equally fast throughput in all areas of environmental, climatic, vibration and EMC testing.

Mariner Systems can offer advice and guidance through every step of the process as well as frequent testing updates, allowing you to chart your equipments progress throughout each stage of the testing.

The capacity of our facilities is such that we can offer very short lead times while still remaining very competitively priced. While variations in testing requirements do mean some systems will take longer to complete we aim to complete testing and issue our reports within fifteen working days. This means that you can start selling your type approved equipment sooner.

UKAS Approved test laboratory

We have recently achieved UKAS accreditation for the Test Lab for all our environmental tests and are in the process of gaining accreditation for our EMC testing both to marine standards and also commercial CE mark, we hope to complete this process in the next couple of months.

In addition our Test Laboratory is formally recognized by Bureau Veritas.
This recognition formally acknowledges that the facilities, organizational structure and associated quality procedures make the Test Laboratory suitable for the supervision of environmental tests on products for use in a marine environment (including Marine Directive 96/98 applications). Click here to view a copy of the certificate.

Services we offer

Our core business is the type approval of marine equipment and we work to the latest standards laid down by the world leading classification societies. We produce a testing program using the worst case parameters from the societies standards to reduce testing time and costs.

Our fully equipped laboratory uses state of the art monitoring equipment which allows us to carry out a standard test suite and produce the required reports within a two week time frame, subject to successful testing.

Complimenting our marine testing we can also offer other environmental testing, such as vibration, climatic, EMC, salt mist etc.

Marine type approval

Mariner Systems can offer you the complete service for all your marine type approval requirements, working with all the main type approval societies. We can produce a testing program based on Test Specification E10 issued by the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) and IEC945

M.E.D.

Marine Equipment Directive (Council Directive 96/98/EC)

The Marine Equipment Directive (MED) covers certain statutory equipment carried and used on ships registered under the flags of the European Union member states which are required to meet the international conventions e.g. SOLAS, MARPOL etc. The aim of the MED is to ensure that equipment meets a common standard of safety and performance acceptable to each member state through the harmonization of their approval requirements. At Mariner Systems we have experience of testing to the MED for various types of equipment and classes.

Marine consultancy

Mariner Systems can act as a consultant for your marine type approval application. we can submit all the applications to the approval societies, along with any other required paperwork. We can then produce a testing schedule and arrange for surveyors to witness testing , produce reports and then have the certificates issued in the company name. taking all of the hassle out of your marine type approval application.

EMC pre-compliance

We can perform all your EMC pre-compliance requirements for both immunity and radiated. As well as testing at the completion of the design why not test completed modules throughout the design cycle. This way, when you come to final submission for CE mark and EMC compliance you will be confident that your equipment will pass

Other services

We can perform a range of environmental testing of Non-Marine equipment including the following tests.

1. Low Temperature -40° C IEC60068-2-1
2. Dry Heat +180°C IEC60068-2-2
3. Humidity up to 95% RH IEC60068-2-30
4. Vibration 2-2000Hz up to 6g
5. EMC testing IEC61000 series
6. Salt mist

Test schedule

The Mariner Systems test schedule is a consolidation of standards of the ten leading marine approval societies world wide.

for more information regarding the mariner systems consolidated worse case test schedule please contact us

 

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