Build compliance in from day one: defence EMC/EMI, structural and environmental testing with TÜV SÜD. In-person lab tour included.

A two-hour workshop on preparing your technology for defence EMC, structural, and environmental testing. Followed by the opportunity for a facility tour at TUV SUD for in person attendees.

Born Compliant: Defence EMC/EMI, Structural and Environmental Workshop (Hybrid)

A workshop for technology companies, hosted at TÜV SÜD Ottawa, with a virtual attendance option.

Military and aerospace products face conditions that commercial products never see: high-power radar, electromagnetic pulse, shock, sustained vibration, and temperature and humidity extremes. Designing for those conditions from the start is far cheaper than reworking a product after it fails third-party testing. This session explains how Canadian defence testing standards work and how to prepare your technology for them.

Who should attend:

Companies developing technology for defence, security, aerospace, or dual-use markets that want to understand testing requirements early. This is a strong fit for hardware and electronics developers, product and engineering teams, and founders preparing for compliance testing or defence procurement.

What you’ll take away:

• How defence standards are organized (MIL-STD, MIL-SPEC, MIL-PRF, MIL-DTL and MIL-HDBK), and which of them matter for your product
• Why commercial EMC compliance almost always falls short of MIL-STD-461, and how emissions and susceptibility requirements differ across fixed installations, land vehicles, ships, and aircraft
• How to scope an EMC test plan, since not every MIL-STD-461 requirement applies to every product, and why you should plan for failures and retesting in your schedule
• What structural and vibration testing under MIL-STD-810 involves, including acceleration, vibration, acoustic noise, shock, and shipboard equipment vibration
• How to define your product’s lifecycle environmental profile and operational environment documentation before testing begins
• How MIL-STD-810 and RTCA/DO-160 evaluate performance under high and low temperature, temperature shock, and humidity
• How Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) helps uncover design weaknesses early, find operational and destructive limits, and shorten development cycles

By the end, you should have a clearer picture of which standards apply to your product, what testing will involve, and how to build compliance into your design from the start.

Tour the TÜV SÜD facility (in-person attendees):

Attendees joining in person are invited to tour the TÜV SÜD facility following the workshop. See the 10-metre semi-anechoic EMC chamber, the 3-metre chamber, and the vibration and environmental test equipment up close. Virtual attendees are welcome to join the workshop session, but the tour is in-person only.

About TÜV SÜD:

TÜV SÜD is an independent, impartial testing, inspection, and certification organization with roots dating to 1866. It has around 28,000 employees at more than 1,000 locations worldwide. Its Ottawa laboratory offers third-party compliance testing for telecommunications, defence (CGP certified), medical devices, and automotive and transportation, including EMC/EMI, environmental, shock and vibration, radio frequency, and product safety testing. Its 10-metre ambient-free semi-anechoic chamber is one of few in Canada, and its 3-metre chamber can be quarantined for Controlled Goods.