January 10, 2025

The LED standard lags behind the development of technology and misses the first opportunity?

[Source: Gaogong LED's "LED Lighting Channel", 2013, Issue 6 (Total Issue 42) Reporter / Li Jingyu] On April 25th, the National Standardization Administration released "About the <Semiconductor Lighting Terminology" on its official website. > Notice of 48 National Standards Revision Project Plans. On the same day, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also issued an announcement on its official website to publicly solicit amendments to the "LED Bulb Performance Requirements".

Coupled with the recent rumor that the country will introduce 3C compulsory certification regulations for LED products during the year. For a time, the issue of LED standardization construction was once again hotly debated by the industry.

From the rise of LED lighting, the industry's debate on product standard specifications has been endless. With the rapid development of the LED industry in recent years, the LED technology countries such as the United States, Germany, Japan and other countries have placed great importance on the development of LED standards and testing technology, in order to occupy the highest point of international industry standard evaluation technology, leading the world LED Industrial development.

In contrast, due to the lack of LED technology talents and the government's long-term neglect of the management and guidance of the LED industry, the domestic LED standardization construction has lagged behind the needs of market development.

Due to the lack of standards and poor supervision, the LED industry has also produced many products, such as squid and shoddy.

Be normal to "3C"

The recent intensive introduction of LED standard revision projects has been interpreted by the market as a positive signal, indicating that the domestic LED industry is accelerating the pace of standardization construction. Among them, dealers reacted violently to the 3C compulsory certification of LED products, and they all expressed their expectation for the introduction of this general standard.

Yao Haiting, an agent of Panasonic Lighting, told reporters: "The 3C certification standard in the LED field has been introduced to regulate the quality of products in the market. For consumers, it is possible to buy products that are safe. For enterprises, it is possible to eliminate a batch of quality. Standard companies, quality thresholds can ensure that quality companies have a competitive advantage in the LED market."

After years of rapid development, the LED industry has gradually expanded its product application field. However, from the perspective of enterprise composition, most enterprises maintain a relatively small scale, and the existing equipment, work base and technology level of each enterprise are not balanced.

Due to the lack of corresponding standards, the LED lighting application products appearing on the market have various types, different performances and poor interchangeability, resulting in chaotic price system. Moreover, some use inferior raw materials for decompression costs, and then quickly occupy the price offensive. market.

"As a dealer, whether they are maintaining their own reputation or protecting their customers, they all hope that the LED brand products they represent have complete quality certification procedures. The 3C certification regulations for LED products help to protect products. Quality, in line with the interests of dealers." However, Yao Haiting is also worried that the implementation of 3C certification may not be rigorous in the future. "Some companies may license to buy certification."

Compared with dealers' optimism about 3C certification, LED manufacturers are much more cautious.

When the reporter talked about the 3C certification to a number of LED companies in Shenzhen, the other party was not convinced. Lan Wenliang of Xianglong Optoelectronics said to the reporter: "3C is the most basic requirement for an enterprise. The 3C standard is actually a very low standard, and every enterprise can do it."

"In fact, many companies are not really having this certification when they boast of their own certification. Because there are too many 3C certifications, there are various aspects such as light source, power supply, lamps, and whole lamps. It is difficult to operate completely. Now The LED certification on the market is mainly power certification, and this certification is easy to pay for."

However, the general manager of the Czech Republic's Czech Republic has a different opinion. He first replied to the reporter that the country may include 3C certification into the LED standardization system this year, and he thinks this is very necessary.

"3C is the minimum threshold. Zhongshan City has begun to conduct 3C certification on LED products. This is in the forefront of the domestic market."

"Standing on paper" standard

From the perspective of LED standardization process, the country is bound to introduce 3C certification regulations for LED products in the future. However, due to the poor implementation of existing standards, enterprises do not have much expectations for the implementation of 3C certification.

"Standards are there, but they are not uniform, lack of supervision. If there is no supervision, then this standard is the same." Lan Wenliang said that there are many kinds of domestic LED standards but the compatibility is poor, and even many national standards and landmarks appear. The phenomenon of conflict.

"As a company, we definitely hope to have a set of effective standards. At the same time, we can implement quality inspection and supervision in place. On the one hand, we can rectify the market, eliminate the uneven quality of hand-made workshops, and on the other hand, improve the image of the industry. To improve the competitiveness of domestic led companies." Lan Wenliang said.

According to the statistics of authoritative organizations, there are currently 193 standard projects involving LED and semiconductor lighting in China, and they have basically covered all links of epitaxial chips, packaged devices, product applications, test equipment and other industrial chains.

Since some technologies and products have not yet been fully finalized, only 54 standards have been released and implemented, and the remaining 73 items are still on paper and have not been implemented.

"The domestic LED standard construction is still at the stage of exploration. I think the standard should solve the two problems of 'electrical safety' and 'light pollution' first." I have expressed my opinion to reporters.

Some practitioners pointed out that China's current LED standard system is not perfect, and the key indicators such as LED life, color temperature and heat dissipation are lack of sustainability, resulting in standards that lag behind technological development in the long-term standard setting process. as a result of.

In addition, the LED is very different from the traditional light source and luminaire in the detection method and standard evaluation, and the uneven detection consciousness of the enterprise also affects the standard execution effect.

Relatively speaking, large-scale enterprises and well-known enterprises pay more attention to detection and quality improvement. However, SMEs are indifferent to the unqualified problems in the testing process, and the rectification reaction is slow, which leads to a prolonged test process.

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