Conformance & Certification

Fieldbus/Ethernet Conformance
HMS policy is that all Anybus products, where applicable, shall be tested and verified for Fieldbus/Ethernet conformance. This is normally a test done by the specific fieldbus organisation, but can also in some specific cases be a HMS verification done with a tool recommended by the fieldbus organisation or with help of reference customers. The reason for this certification or pre-certification is that HMS want to verify that all modules follow the specification of the different fieldbuses and that our embedded modules will pass a product certification done by our customer, using our embedded module as the fieldbus interface.

Anybus conformance guidelines documentation

Most fieldbus organisations have third party test labs to test and verify that each fieldbus product is compliant with the standard and follow the interoperability expectations when used with other vendors products. HMS works closely with each organisation to make sure that all our products meet the specifications and pass each test. HMS has made over 100 fieldbus Conformance Certifications tests for HMS products as well as helping our customers to get a fieldbus conformity for their products.

CE & UL Certification
Anybus and CE mark
The CE mark has its origin in the European Community. Since 1990 it is a legal requirement of all electronics products used on the European Market. For Electronic/Electric products the EMC directive (EMC = Electro Magnetic Compliance) is mandatory.AnyBus can be viewed as a component and as a component the CE mark is not mandatory. However, the HMS policy is that the product shall be CE marked and shall pass the EMC directives defined as products. This makes the use of Anybus much easier and more reliable for our customers, due to the fact that the module itself is tested and approved for CE.

HMS is a co-owner of an EMC lab and has many years of experience in the complicated area of EMC. All our products are tested in our own EMC laboratory and are finally verified by the Competent Body in Sweden, namely SP, the Swedish National Testing and Research Institute.

Anybus and UL Marking
The Anybus Embedded product range has been approved by UL (Underwriters Laboratories Inc) and have “UL & cUL” certification. The tests have been performed according to standards for industrial control equipment UL-508, with Anybus being regarded as a Programmable Controller. The fact that Anybus is UL certified simplifies the integration of Anybus to products and applications that are or will be UL compliant. As a component that is integrated in customer's products, Anybus is a recognized component marked with the RU-mark and the cRU-mark for the Canadian market.A UL approval means that UL has tested and evaluated samples of that product and determined that they meet UL's requirements. In addition, products are periodically checked by UL at the manufacturing facility to make sure they continue to meet UL requirements.
To find out more about the UL-mark, please visit www.ul.com

Where possible HMS provides PDF "Declaration of Conformance" certificates for all Anybus products. The certifcates are listed under each specific Anybus product in this section of the website.