We’ve received some questions about which energy consumption values should be reported as the “worst case” measurement for TCO Certified products. Some applicants are only reporting the worst case numbers based on the row of the highest Total Energy Consumption, TEC.
As TCO Certified includes a wide scope of criteria, we want to make the certification process as efficient as possible for you.
The use of touch modules on panels incurs extra testing as the panels used must be tested with and without the touch module. TCO Development has done some investigating to see if we can create more efficiency in this process.
When applying for TCO Certified, a brand owner manufacturing TCO Certified products at a factory covered by the EICC VAP Recognition Program may now send the following documentation directly to TCO Development for review, instead of going through the designated external social reviewer
We’ve received some questions about the "Optional Stand" remark on some certificates for displays and all-in-one PCs, specifically whether or not this remark should be added to the certificate.
Thin-clients, ultra thin-clients, workstations and small scale servers can all be certified, even though there is no category-specific criteria document.
We have received some questions about how a wall mount function and stand are handled in TCO Certified Displays.
If you have certificates issued under the previous generation of TCO Certified, please remember to upgrade these to the latest generation before November 11, 2017.
We have seen some inconsistencies in acoustic noise measurements for TCO Certified Notebooks 5.0, TCO Certified All-in-one PCs 4.0 and TCO Certified Desktops 5.0. Therefore, we will include the following clarification (in red) in our next generation of TCO Certified. We are already using this principle:
A.4.1 (For Notebooks) A.4.3( For AIO
We have received some questions about how a wall mount function and stand are handled in TCO Certified Displays.