KU Leuven – Brugge – FMEC Laboratory
About us
FMEC is the service laboratory of the M-Group research division at the KU Leuven in Brugge. FMEC offers pre-compliance EMC & RED testing, electromagnetic shielding effectiveness testing, HALT testing, climatic testing, consultancy and training for the industry.
As the laboratory is directly linked to the research, it always stays up to date with the latest developments in technology.
Products
Pre-compliance EMC testing
FMEC offers in-house EMC pre-compliance testing which is commonly performed in our 3m semi-anechoic chamber for a wide range of EMC standards. FMEC also has a reverberation chamber.
In situ EMC testing
Some equipment can not be measured under laboratory conditions due to its weight, auxiliary equipment, cooling or heating, power delivery needed, … In this case, we perform the testing at the premises where the equipment is installed. FMEC has a long-time experience and gained a lot of expertise in performing in situ measurements, both in Belgium as abroad.
Precompliance RED testing
Every radio module or device containing a radio module must comply with the Radio Equipment Directive. FMEC laboratory can assist you in the road to compliance with the essential requirements for this directive (RED) whether it be with advice, assessments or for pre-compliance measurements before final testing or consultation at a RED notified body. We offer radiated output power measurements and spurious emissions testing as well as EMC tests for radio equipment (ETSI EN 301 498-xx). With our state-of-the-art basestations we can provide radiolinks such as 2G/4G/5G, WiFi and Bluetooth.
Electromagnetic shielding effectiveness testing of materials
FMEC has a longtime experience in shielding effectiveness (SE) testing and as such can offer test setups according to a wide variety of both renowned international standards as well as alternative standards, some of which were developed at FMEC. We can test both planar and gasketing materials in different sizes in a broad frequency range from low frequency magnetic shielding from 10 kHz up to plane wave electromagnetic shielding at 44 GHz.
Robustness testing (HALT)
Highly Accelerated Lifetime Testing (HALT) has proven its use over the last decades in the development of robust products that typically find their use in harsh environments. It found its origin in military, space and automotive industries. The intention of the test is to sTimulate failures due to wear and tear rather than simulating them. A well-performed HALT test will shorten the time-to-market, reduce warranty costs and most important, make the product more robust. The HALT process is typically applied on pre-production samples to find failures in a short time by applying incrementally increasing extreme stresses. These stresses are most commonly thermal and vibrational shocks which are sequentially applied according predefined test courses. FMEC has over 19 years of experience in HALT testing.