📄️ Starting your first project
When logging in for the first time and with no previous products or projects saved, you will be directed to the edit settings screen and requested to enter your user information.
📄️ Project overview
The Project overview summarizes the key project information and indicates on the right the project progress. The progress bullets become visible as project steps are completed.
📄️ The Project list / your dashboard
The CERTAIN dashboard is your “home” screen. It is intended to summarize all your project activities and their status in one simple overview.
📄️ Process step 1 - Entering your key product information
This first process step involves entering the product and stakeholder information required in a CE evaluation. CERTAIN breaks this step into 4 sections which will explained individually in this guide.
📄️ Process Step 2 - Entering your product limits
In this step you specify the limits and intended correct use of your product together with details of its intended operating environment.
📄️ EU legislation research
This section guides you through the EU legislatory and harmonized standards research.
📄️ Machinery Directive (MD) EU legislation and harmonized standards research
This section guides you through the EU legislatory and harmonized standards research specifically relevant for the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EG.
📄️ Low Voltage Directive (LVD) EU legislation research
This section guides you through the eu legislatory and harmonized standards research specifically relevant for the Low Voltage Directive (2014/35/EU)
📄️ Harmonized standards research
This step allows you to freely reasearch the entire EUR-lex harmonized standards database for legislation that may apply to your product.
📄️ The risk assessment
In this section you will be guided step by step through the risk assessment.
📄️ Operating Intructions (Beta)
This section describes how CERTAIN can assist you in the preparation of your operating instructions. This normally time consuming task has been integrated into the CERTAIN workflow as a key process step and developed so as to minimise the effort needed, eliminate reentry of already existing information and be structured in full conformance with:
📄️ Document management
This step in the process involves the creation, management and downloading of your product documentation.
📄️ Archiving projects
Projects may be archived at any time for use at a later date. The archiving function is available from the project list dashboard.