Understand what a design choice could change
For equipment builders, component suppliers, and engineering consultancies, a design choice can change the route to market. Research the product rules before specifications are locked.
Research product requirements while your design choices are still open
A new component, a different market, or a design change can shift the requirements. Use Regunow to research product rules, approval routes, and technical evidence before those choices become costly to revisit.
Product rules and approval schemes
- European Union: CE marking
- China: CCC
- United States: FCC equipment authorization
- United Kingdom: UKCA
- Japan: PSE
- South Korea: KC
- Australia: RCM (Australia)
- India: BIS product certification
- Brazil: INMETRO
- Indonesia: SNI
- United Arab Emirates: ECAS
- Saudi Arabia: SASO machinery safety
- Taiwan: BSMI product inspection
- Mexico: NOM-001-SCFI
- Vietnam: Product and Goods Quality Law
- Canada: Canada Consumer Product Safety Act
- Singapore: SAFETY Mark
- Switzerland: Product Safety Act
- Hong Kong: Electrical product safety
- European Union: REACH
- United States: FMVSS
- European Union: RoHS
- European Union: Machinery Regulation
- European Union: Product Liability Directive (2024)
- European Union: Cyber Resilience Act
- European Union: Batteries Regulation
- European Union: CBAM
- European Union: Pressure Equipment Directive
- European Union: ATEX equipment
- European Union: Low Voltage Directive
- European Union: EMC Directive
- European Union: Radio Equipment Directive
- European Union: Vehicle type approval
- United States: EAR
- United States: ITAR
- India: BIS CRS
- United States: UFLPA
- United States: Proposition 65 (California)
- European Union: Construction Products Regulation
- United States: FAA Part 21
- United States: OSHA general industry
- United States: MSHA surface mine safety
- European Union: ESPR
- European Union: Machinery Directive
Build a regulatory foundation before the design is fixed
Connect your specifications with the relevant requirements
Attach specifications or test reports and explore how your design relates to relevant regulatory requirements. Identify assumptions and missing evidence while design changes are still practical.
Explain the evidence behind your route to market
Trace marking, documentation, and conformity questions to their supporting sources. Give engineering, quality, and commercial colleagues a clearer basis for deciding the next step.
From individual components to complex manufacturing operations
Work through the duties of a machinery integrator
Explore how intended use, integration, and modifications affect machinery and robotics obligations. Research guarding, technical documentation, and the responsibilities of the manufacturer or system integrator.
Connect component evidence with finished equipment requirements
Investigate electrical safety, radio, electromagnetic compatibility, and substance restrictions for electronics and semiconductors. Distinguish component evidence from the approvals needed for the finished product.
Place a component within the vehicle approval process
Connect vehicle and component approval questions with safety, emissions, batteries, and supplier documentation. Examine what changes when a part, vehicle category, or destination market changes.
Investigate airworthiness and export controls as separate questions
Research aircraft production, maintenance, and controlled equipment or technology. Separate aviation approvals from export-control questions so each workstream reaches the appropriate specialist.
Clarify what building materials and fabricated assemblies must demonstrate
Work through construction-product, pressure-equipment, and explosive-atmosphere requirements for fabricated assemblies and building materials. Clarify the role of declared performance, installation conditions, and supporting tests.
Research equipment and operating duties for a specific mine
Examine machinery, worker exposure, mine-safety, and processing-site rules. Build a research brief around the mineral, equipment, operating activity, and location instead of treating every mine alike.