Six months late on certification is more common than you think — and rarely random.
Six-month delays on homologation are common across industrial OEM projects. Most teams treat them as part of the game — labs run slower than before, regulations keep changing, and surprises always appear at the worst moment.
But the surprises are not random.
Lab failures follow patterns. ErP in standby. EMC margins. Components without certification for the target market. UL paperwork arriving incomplete. Each one was visible at schematic stage — long before the project reached the lab.
We wrote a short guide on the patterns we see most often, and how to spot them at the design stage. Two minutes of reading.
