Safeguarding the quality and standard of lighting exports is the key to winning international competition

Faced with the increasingly fierce competition in the international lighting market, in addition to basic requirements such as price, style, brightness, performance, safety, and environmental protection, the technology content, product added value, and overall export quality of the lighting industry will be increased. The key to international competitiveness. This article will reflect the situation of lamps and lanterns exports in some parts of China since the beginning of this year from a variety of perspectives, and prompts manufacturers to pay attention to matters.

Facing the temptation of export

The lighting products exported by Fuzhou Inspection and Quarantine Bureau are mainly outdoor lamps such as street lamps, spotlights, and garden lights. LED lamps have become the new darling of exports, involving more than 30 export companies, mainly exported to the United States, the European Union and the Middle East, and more than 90% of export products are This year's new lighting products. The lighting companies are numerous and miscellaneous. In the face of the recent booming international consumer market, individual lighting manufacturers have followed the trend. They do not know enough about the inspection and quarantine policies, and the inspection and shipping have been more casual and have not communicated with the inspection and quarantine authorities in a timely manner. Check the issue of delivery.

The Fuzhou Inspection and Quarantine Bureau did not push the responsibility to the enterprises. The Bureau went deep into the promotion of inspections and quarantines related laws and regulations, and conducted detailed investigations on the detailed names and export conditions of the new export lighting products of the enterprises, and extensively collected problems existing in the enterprises. Difficulties and patience for the company to answer doubts. A company that is located in Minhou export process lamps and lanterns, when exporting EU process lamps, did not know about the inspection and quarantine requirements and the IEC60598 related standards, and will only report for inspection when it is about to ship, so as not to delay the delivery of the enterprise, the Fuzhou Inspection and Quarantine Bureau Inspectors promptly went to the site to conduct inspections and technical guidance, put forward suggestions for improvement, and finally allowed the goods to be successfully exported.

Because of the large number of accessories and rapid design updates, lamps exporting companies are involved in a large number of inspection and quarantine regulations. It is inevitable that they are not familiar with the product standard terms. Fuzhou Inspection and Quarantine Bureau adopts centralized training, announcements, electronic platform consultation, and door-to-door publicity. In order to help enterprises solve their difficulties, only 32 new inspection product manufacturing enterprises were visited from the end of 2010 to the beginning of 2011, which laid a good foundation for the smooth opening of new lighting products for export.

Insist on the concept of energy saving and environmental protection

LED luminaires are increasingly favored by the international market due to their long life, high luminous efficiency, no radiation, low power consumption, energy saving and environmental protection, and the export amount is also increasing, but with the increase of product types, some LED lamps Quality and safety issues are also becoming more and more prominent.

Fuzhou Inspection and Quarantine Bureau combines the product features of export LED lamps in the area, and aims to prevent the electric shock and electric strength of the products. In conjunction with the requirements of foreign standards, the entire production process of LED products from design, production, semi-finished products, and final inspection is tracked and supervised. Elimination of unqualified hidden dangers and promotion of qualified export of products.

The product of an LED lamp manufacturer has the problem that the replacement light source is easily accessible to the live parts and the insulation strength is insufficient. The inspectors and the enterprise technicians combine the product structure design drawings with the methods of replacing the lamp parts and revising the circuit design. Finally, they are effective. Solved the problem.

Strictly follow the workflow to improve quality and efficiency

At the end of 2010, the Fuzhou Inspection and Quarantine Bureau began to conduct special seminars to rationalize the workflows of “inspection, extraction, inspection, and release” of new products, and clarify the sampling requirements, inspection procedures, and reports issued by communicating with the testing departments. . At the same time, special personnel and laboratory inspectors are required to conduct research on the key points of the standard, to unify understanding and requirements, and to continuously improve the quality and efficiency of inspection and testing. Do not look at the same are the lamps and lanterns, according to the requirements of safety, quality and environmental protection and technical requirements, the inspection requirements when exporting can be very different, especially the "new face", the enterprise before the fear of unclear "temper."

Fuzhou Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, according to the requirements of the documents, conducts type test sampling inspection of new products as soon as possible, rationally allocates personnel, guides enterprises to specify product types and sampling plans, and completes preliminary inspections as soon as possible to help enterprises cross the most difficult way to cross over and protect enterprises. Products are exported in time.

Lighting export companies do not want to change the product structure

Recently, the Xianju Field Office of the Taizhou Inspection and Quarantine Bureau conducted a field inspection of a number of process lamps sold to the U.S. with 350 boxes and 700 units with a value of 5,500 U.S. dollars. When the insulating layer of the base was peeled off, the lamps were found to have no wire fixing devices. The tension of the external power cord is directly transmitted to the terminal, and the conductor is in direct contact with the sharp metal edge, without adding protection devices, which is inconsistent with the product structure of the type test report, and there is a serious safety hazard.

It is understood that this enterprise is one of the leading companies in the local wooden handicrafts. The process lamps and lanterns are only auxiliary products. Because the company itself does not pay enough attention to the lighting products and the shipping time is tight, in order to increase the efficiency, the workshop staff arbitrarily changes the product inside, resulting in The batch of goods failed. Here, the inspection and quarantine department reminds relevant companies to strengthen their awareness of quality and safety and must not change the product structure without causing damage.

At the same time, in order to avoid the recurrence of similar incidents, the Taizhou Inspection and Quarantine Bureau notified the incident in the industry and asked the company to pay attention to it; it strengthened the inspection and supervision of the company and temporarily approved the subsequent export of lighting products; Enterprises with weak quality assurance ability shall provide assistance and guide enterprises to establish an effective self-inspection and self-control system; require companies to be equipped with professional personnel and appropriate testing equipment to meet the requirements of the required export control capabilities; and strengthen the communication between inspection and quarantine departments and enterprises. Prevent problems before they occur.

From the quality point of view, due to the inspection and quarantine departments have stepped up efforts to investigate and deal with, since the second half of 2010, many energy-saving lamp manufacturers began to consciously control the high power standard and the use of three-color lamp. LED lamps as an emerging product officially opened in 2011, companies should promptly organize relevant personnel to learn to understand the international standard IEC62560:2011 and the corresponding national standard "Safety Requirements for self-ballasted LED lamps above 50V for general lighting" (GB24906-2010 ) Wait for new standards, master the key points, work hard, and organize the production on the basis of comprehending new standards. Strengthen management, try to avoid the loss and impact of exporting European and American lighting products because they do not meet the new standards, and reduce international The circular will strengthen the competitiveness of China's LED lighting product exports.

Improve self-control ability "Teach it to fish"

Strengthening training is by no means based on this book. Enterprises do not understand the product standards, Fuzhou Inspection and Quarantine Bureau specifically for international and domestic standards organization training; enterprises do not understand the situation of product failure, Fuzhou Inspection and Quarantine Bureau to carry out notifications on failed projects; business design difficulties, do not know Some “ingenious” exploration and improvement measures meet the requirements of quality and safety. The Fuzhou Inspection and Quarantine Bureau adopted source control services to intervene in product design to eliminate quality and safety risks in advance.

For some lamps and lanterns products just transferred to the legal inspection catalog, some companies do not have clear quality control requirements, logos and instructions do not meet the standard requirements of higher failure rate, inspectors on the company conducted on-site guidance and analysis to explain; for product structure design The problem of unreasonable use of raw materials and improper use of raw materials leads to the need for enterprises to completely change their sense of quality, familiarize themselves with product standards and inspection requirements, strengthen quality control, review customer samples, and gradually solve problems fundamentally.

A technical service has brought hope and opportunities for the company's innovation and expansion. According to industry estimates, Fuzhou's export lighting products will likely exceed US$20 million this year.

Outdoor lighting exports do not ignore the logo project

Starting this year, the AQSIQ will officially open outdoor lighting fixtures that have been included in the catalog for two years. In the past two years, Zhongshan Inspection and Quarantine Bureau used port sampling, overseas non-qualified notification surveys, special inspections, and factory inspections to fully investigate outdoor lighting, and basically grasped the quality of outdoor lighting, and had already done enough inspections. Preparations.

The unqualified projects of outdoor lights are mainly concentrated on the sign items, and there are other items such as protection against electric shock, creepage distances and clearances, and heat and flame resistance.

Zhongshan Inspection and Quarantine Bureau recently conducted inspections of outdoor lamps in a total of 7 batches of outdoor lamp samples. After a full test of the type test, 4 batches failed and the failure rate was 57%. In all nonconformities, 82% of the items were marked, and 18% were other items such as heat and flame resistance.

The high rate of disqualification of the signs and instructions indicates that there are misunderstandings in the company's understanding. Such as the lack of IP rating signs, source tags, terminal tags, etc. The main reason is that companies do not have enough knowledge of the product's mark item detection, and think that the mark is not a safety item and ignores its importance.

In addition, due to the rapid update of standards, a considerable number of factories do not have special personnel to collect and research standards, and do not understand the content changes of the new standard.

However, the raw materials failed to lead to failure of the heat-resistant, fire-resistant and scratch-resistant items. In order to pursue high profits and reduce production costs, manufacturers have adopted materials with physical properties and flame retardant ratings that do not meet the requirements. In some lighting products exported to the Middle East, Southeast Asia and other countries, occasionally cutting corners.

Being unfamiliar with the standards leads to irrational product design and is the main reason for protection against electric shock, creepage distances and clearance gaps. In this regard, Zhongshan Inspection and Quarantine Bureau reminded customers that ignoring the standard requirements and the use of unqualified parts are the main reasons for the failure of outdoor lamps. Although the company has obtained temporary profits, it is very unfavorable for long-term development and will also Influence the international reputation of Chinese products.

It is necessary for the AQSIQ to officially open inspection of outdoor lighting products to increase inspection and supervision. Manufacturers must correct deviations in understanding, strengthen the study and study of standards, strictly follow the standard requirements for the design of qualified products and organization of production, continuously improve the management level and product quality, is the way to survive.