Life Cycle Management

Life Cycle Management The Life Cycle Management approach assists the development of your products from the very beginning. You develop an idea and we perform initial market analysis to ensure that your product has a niche in the current market. In the design phase, we give advice to ensure optimal results, identify potential failures and provide all necessary safety, usability and functionality tests. Subsequently, we support you with virtual testing in combination with product lifetime simulation. Our experts carry out risk and quality assessments for your manufacturers and suppliers to examine compliance to international security, quality or social accountability standards. Especially, social accountability standards have gained importance in the course of ethical responsibilities in a global business world. Our position as a third party enables us to supervise production, shipment procedures as well as loading of goods. Market Analysis Up to date, market analysis is undertaken to ensure that a new product can be supported and thrive in its intended market. As a global company dealing with standards, certification and evaluation, we have access to various market information and can provide the most updated data. Detailed analysis will be carried out to ensure that there is substantial evidence to support the market introduction of a new product.Design Virtual testing supports a product in the design phase. Usability, durability, recycling (e.g. quantification of harmful substances) and brand protection features have to be determined before production to achieve optimal results.Conformity Assessment Our experts carry out safety and quality testing of products locally in order to check compliance to international standards. Through simulated aging in our laboratories, we provide all necessary safety, usability and functionality certificates and detect potential failures. These certificates are compliant to the European directive 1999/44/EC that stipulates a minimum warranty of 24 months on consumer goods. The newest Conformity Assessment Service of TUV Rheinland is testing against the new European directives 2002/96/EC (WEEE) & 2002/95/EC (RoHS) and verifies electrical products on harmful and hazardous materials.Sourcing As an accredited certification body, we carry out risk and quality assessments as well as second party audits for your manufacturers and suppliers to examine conformity with international quality and social accountability standards. While enterprises tend to become more and more globally involved, it is essential to affirm the trust of the customers (e.g. through denial of child labor). In addition, our experienced experts qualify your workforce with the latest technical know how in our training seminars.Production With our Quality Control Service, we supervise the production processes of your manufacturers, check quality of goods, optimize internal processes and evaluate security management systems. In addition, the Brand Protection Service offers an overall quality assurance of the supply chain against counterfeited goods.Shipment Before shipment, authenticity of goods can be verified through our Brand Protection System. We conduct a final quality check and supervise loading of products.Customs Without particular product knowledge and technical devices, customs officials can easily distinguish between counterfeited and real products using our Brand Protection System.Purchasing The brand owner has access to our Brand Protection System's Track and Trace functionality 24/7/365. Through this functionality upon your request, you gain the ability to automatically receive reports about the status of your products. These reports include information about actions, locations and time frames so that you can track a specific product throughout your whole supply chain.Consumer The trust of a consumer will be affirmed due to our Brand Protection System as authenticity of all products can easily be checked through the internet at our online portal. The gained information about the consumer can later be used for marketing goals.Recycling Once a product reaches the end of its lifecycle, the recycler can receive instructions for the recycling process from our database. All information will be stored at TUV.COM, our online platform for customers, and might be used as documented evidence of conformity for recycling processes. Authorized users can have permanent access to all information.