ISQ - Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade, EMC Testing

Porto Salvo (Oeiras), Lisbon, Portugal

Avenida Professor Doutor Cavaco Silva 33, Taguspark, Porto Salvo (Oeiras), Lisbon, 2740-120, Portugal

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About

ISQ was founded in 1965 as the Instituto de Soldadura, a private non-profit association serving Portugal's welded construction sector, was recognised as a legal entity of public utility in 1980 and renamed Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade in 1985 as its competences widened. Its EMC work descends from LABEL, created in 1980 as the first national laboratory for low-voltage electrical testing in Portugal, and it operates today from the Taguspark science park at Porto Salvo in Oeiras, west of Lisbon. The group runs sixteen accredited laboratories with more than 1,700 staff, over 250 specialised services and, by its own count, more than seventy-six accreditations, notifications and recognitions, with local companies in twelve countries including Spain and Brazil and partnerships that take in the United Nations, the European Space Agency, CERN and ITER. In 2018 the Portuguese state accredited it as a Technological Interface Centre, and in 2020 it formed ISQ&CTAG with the first accredited automotive-sector testing laboratory. The published EMC scope is organised by product family rather than by test method, which makes it easy to match to a directive route: generic immunity and emissions under EN 61000-6-1 to -6-4, household appliances and electric tools under EN 55014-1 and -2, IT equipment under EN 55022 and EN 55024, measurement and laboratory equipment under EN 61326, lighting under EN 55015 and EN 61547, alarm systems under EN 50130-4, fire detection under the EN 54 series, railway under the EN 50121 series, short-range radio devices under EN 301 489-3, and - unusually - weighing instruments under EN 45501 and OIML R-76, which reflects the institute's metrology heritage. Automotive electronic sub-assembly work covers CISPR 25 and EN 55025 emissions, ISO 7637 transients, ISO 10605 discharge, ISO 11452-2 ALSE radiated immunity and ISO 11452-4 bulk current injection. Testing is offered at the laboratory and on site, across pre-compliance, final testing, product inspection and validation phases, and ISQ holds an agreement with CERTIF, which issues certification licences on the basis of ISQ test reports. Chamber dimensions, frequency ranges and the IPAC accreditation number are not published. Specialisations are weighing instrument and metrology EMC, fire and alarm systems, railway, automotive ESA testing, and EMC within a large multidisciplinary engineering institute.

Accreditations

Accreditation
ISO/IEC 17025
EMC Directive 2014/30/EU

Testing Services

Test Type	Applicable Standards
Radiated Emissions	EN 61000-6-3, EN 61000-6-4, EN 55014-1, EN 55022, EN 61326, EN 55015, EN 55011, EN 50121-1, EN 50121-2, EN 50121-3-2, EN 50121-4, CISPR 25, EN 55025, EN 55014-1 disturbance power, EN 55015 radiated magnetic field
Conducted Emissions	EN 61000-6-3, EN 61000-6-4, EN 55014-1, EN 55022, EN 61326, EN 55015, EN 55011, EN 50121 series, CISPR 25, EN 55025, EN 55014-1 discontinuous disturbances (clicks)
Radiated Immunity	EN 61000-4-3, EN 61000-6-1, EN 61000-6-2, EN 55014-2, EN 55024, EN 61326, EN 61547, EN 50130-4, EN 54-2, EN 50121-4, EN 45501, OIML R-76, ETSI EN 301 489-3, ISO 11452-2
Conducted Immunity	EN 61000-4-6, EN 61000-6-1, EN 61000-6-2, EN 55014-2, EN 55024, EN 61326, EN 50130-4, EN 54-2, EN 45501, OIML R-76, ISO 11452-4
Conducted Susceptibility	ISO 7637-1, ISO 7637-2, ISO 7637-3, EN 61000-4-6
ESD	EN 61000-4-2, ISO 10605, EN 50130-4
EFT/Burst	EN 61000-4-4, EN 50130-4
Surge Immunity	EN 61000-4-5, EN 50130-4
Harmonics & Flicker	EN 61000-3-2, EN 61000-3-3
Voltage Dips/Interrupts	EN 61000-4-11, EN 50130-4
Power Frequency Magnetic Field	EN 61000-4-8, EN 61000-4-9
Bulk Current Injection (BCI)	ISO 11452-4
Pre-Compliance Testing	EN 55022, EN 61000-4-3, EN 61000-6-2, CISPR 25
Radio Equipment Testing	ETSI EN 301 489-1, ETSI EN 301 489-3, ETSI EN 300 220, ETSI EN 300 328
Automotive Component EMC	CISPR 25, EN 55025, ISO 7637-1, ISO 7637-2, ISO 7637-3, ISO 10605, ISO 11452-2, ISO 11452-4
Railway EMC	EN 50121-1, EN 50121-2, EN 50121-3-1, EN 50121-3-2, EN 50121-4, EN 50121-5
Medical Device EMC	EN 60601-1-2, EN 61326-2-6
Environmental Testing	IEC 60068-2-1, IEC 60068-2-2, IEC 60068-2-30, IEC 60068-2-78, IEC 60529
Product Safety	EN 62368-1, EN 60335-1, EN 61010-1, EN 60598-1, EN 54-2, EN 45501, OIML R-76, Directive 2014/35/EU, Directive 2014/31/EU (NAWI)

Certifications / Marks

Certification
CE
CERTIF certification licences (issued on ISQ test reports)
IPAC-accredited test reports
Portuguese Technological Interface Centre (2018)
NAWI / OIML R-76 weighing instrument evidence

Industries Served

Industry
Industrial Equipment
Household Appliances
Information Technology
Lighting Products
Railway
Automotive
Aerospace & Defense
Energy & Power
Medical Devices
Radio & Wireless
Telecommunications
Nuclear

Major Equipment

Equipment
EMC test chambers (dimensions and frequency ranges not published)
EMI receiver
Spectrum analyser
LISN
CDN
BCI injection probes
ESD simulator (IEC 61000-4-2, ISO 10605)
EFT/burst generator
Surge generator
Automotive transient generator (ISO 7637-1 / -2 / -3)
Harmonics and flicker analyser
Click analyser (EN 55014-1 discontinuous disturbances)
Absorbing clamp for disturbance power measurement
Loop antenna for radiated magnetic field (EN 55015)
Power frequency and pulse magnetic field coils
RF power amplifiers and immunity antennas
ALSE radiated immunity set-up (ISO 11452-2)
Portable instrumentation for on-site EMC testing
LABEL low-voltage electrical testing laboratory (established 1980)
LABMETRO dimensional metrology laboratory (established 1983)
ISQ&CTAG accredited automotive testing laboratory (established 2020)
Sixteen accredited laboratories across the group