KC certification

The ministry of knowledge economy (MKE) announced on August 25, 2008 that the national standards board would implement a new national unified certification Mark, known as the KC Mark, from July 2009 to December 2010.

The new sign is called KC Mark, which represents Korea Certification.The current 13 mandatory symbols will be eventually unified under the new logo.

One result of this move is to reduce the cost of certification fees for suppliers, and to make KC Mark a global brand.However, there is a disadvantage that the recently issued KCC logo will only be implemented for a few years and will eventually be unified into the new KC logo.
According to the south Korean electrical and supplies safety management act, the safety certification of electrical supplies from 1 January 2009 is divided into compulsory certification and self-discipline (voluntary) certification.

Compulsory certification refers to: belong to all the electronic product must achieve in the mandatory product KC Mark certification can be on the market in South Korea. After a year need to accept factory inspection and product sampling test.

Self-discipline (voluntary) certification means that all electronic products belonging to voluntary

The KC certification factory reviews the requirements of the first trial factory:
The south Korean security law requires that the plant be reviewed for the first time after accepting the application.According to the requirements of the safety law, the quality control system of the factory shall be preliminarily evaluated, and the following aspects are involved:

The factory shall, in accordance with the requirements of product certification and the quality assurance of the factory, require the production of certified products consistent with the approved samples.According to south Korean security certification related laws and south Korean industrial technology to the relevant provisions of the trial court (KTL), your factory should have the following documented procedure or regulation, the content should be adapted to factory quality management and quality control:

1) product change control procedures (example: certification product change notification after approved by certification bodies, should department should be in strict accordance with the approved changes to the content establish corresponding technical documents issued to the relevant departments to properly implement certification product changes.An unapproved change cannot impose a certification mark on a changed product.

2) documentation and data control procedures

3) quality record control procedures {should include a record of at least 3 years (with only incoming goods, routine and operational inspection records)}

4) routine inspection and confirmation inspection procedures

5) nonconforming product control procedures

6) inspection or verification procedures for key components and materials

7) internal quality audit procedure

8) process work instructions, inspection standards, equipment operation procedures, the management system procedures such as factory quality records shall be kept at least include the following, to confirm the factory do the inspection of all production and production test, quality records shall be real and effective

9) product routine inspection and confirmation inspection record;Incoming inspection/verification record of key components and materials and qualification certificate provided by the supplier

Records of periodic calibration or verification of test and test equipment;

Routine inspection and confirmation (running) inspection records;

Daily inspection record of safety equipment in production line (workshop);

Record of disposal of defective products (incoming goods, routine and operation);

Internal audit records;

Record of corrective actions taken by customer complaints;

The unqualified correction record of the operation inspection;

Annual factory review requirements:
) a year, after the certificate of authorization, certification institution to the factory to track an annual review, the main purpose is to check the consistency of the quality control system of the factory, whether can continue to meet safety standards.

The annual factory review is divided into two parts

1) check the quality documents, quality records and relevant contents of the manufacturing site, and the requirements and contents are basically the same as the initial review.

2) we need to confirm the consistency of all products authorized by KC Mark in the factory.The key components, materials, circuits and structures of the certified products are confirmed according to the product's authorization certificate (key components list).

Sampling requirements:

There are 216 products listed in KC Mark's compulsory certification. The Korean security law provides that all products are sampled every year. Therefore, each product is sampled once a year.

The sampling method is;

The inspector will be sent to the designated address within 3 months after the inspection by the factory inspector during the annual review, when there is production or inventory.

The factory shall send the specified sample to the designated address within 6 months without production or inventory when the factory is under review.

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