COMMERCIAL INSPECTION & TESTING

Do you have ongoing problems within your supply chain?

Are you receiving nonconforming products from your vendors?

You should be contacting ULC's Commercial Inspection and Testing Services (CITS)!

ULC can provide you with worldwide Supply Chain Services by way of commercial inspection, testing and auditing services on a wide range of products. These products DO NOT necessarily have to be ULC Listed, Recognized or Classified. Products can range from household appliances and electrical goods to tools and toys - virtually all hardline and softline products. ULC's global presence allows us to offer reliable, cost-effective and localized service in many product categories.

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Commercial Inspection Services

Our qualified field representatives can visit your supplier's location and perform thorough, comprehensive and objective product inspections - to your specific requirements. This gives you the opportunity to correct a nonconforming shipment and added confidence that the product will meet your requirements when it arrives.

•   First Article Inspection - First piece samples are randomly selected during the initial stages of production. This verifies that your product requirements are being met early on.
•   During Production Inspection - Inspections conducted during the manufacturing process help ensure product compliance.
•   Final Pre-shipment Inspection - Products can be inspected to meet all customer requirements by using an acceptable quality level sampling plan, prior to shipment.

ULC CITS can inspect for such attributes as:

•   Quality
•   Safety
•   Quantity
•   Packaging
•   Form, fit and function
•   UPC verification
•   Marking and labeling requirements
•   Commercial testing services

ULC's/UL's qualified laboratories can test products to your specific criteria or to a national or international standard to provide independent verification. ULC has extensive testing expertise in the following areas: electrical, mechanical, large and small scale fire, chemical analysis, environmental conditioning, toys, packaging and many others.

ULC can test for:

•   Safety
•   Performance
•   Reliability
•   Design validation
•   Packaging

Commercial Assessment/Auditing Services

Supplier assessments of new and existing suppliers can be conducted per your quality requirements. ULC Staff can audit in the areas of: factory capability, quality control, test equipment review and any other program specific requirements. We can address your social accountability and environmental concerns as well. ULC can also assist you in the development and implementation of a vendor evaluation program tailored to your specific needs.

Customized Supply Chain Services

Whatever your supply chain service needs are, ULC can customize the CITS program to meet those needs, HEAD ON.

•   Assist in supply chain development and maintenance
•   Identify mandatory and non-mandatory, country-specific requirements
•   Inspect and test products to those requirements
•   Provide Web-based data reporting and tracking

Contact us

You can access ULC CITS from any location in UL's global network (see image below). For the solutions you need, please contact us via email: George.R.Dudkowski@ca.ul.com

To contact someone directly from our UL CITS Asia staff, email them at CITS.ASIA@hk.ul.com.

Contact Customer Service

UL Customer Service Professionals are available from 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM across all North American time zones to provide you with a quote or project status, or to offer you assistance in resolving non-technical questions. Contact a customer service professional, learn how to submit a product for testing or begin the product submission process.