Industrial sensors (c-PCR under PCR 2024:06)

 Version 1.0.0 of this PCR was published 2025-12-18 with a 4-year validity period.  

This is not be a standalone PCR but a complementary PCR (c-PCR) to the main PCR for electronic and electric equipment and electronic components (non-construction). The c-PCR provides additional rules and specifications for the specified product category.

The c-PCR is used together with the main PCR to assess the environmental performance of Industrial sensors and the declaration of this performance by an EPD.

The c-PCR covers product category under the UN CPC 4823 Precision balances; instruments for drawing, calculating, measuring length, etc; UN CPC 4825 Hydrometers and similar floating instruments, thermometers, pyrometers, barometers, hygrometers and psychrometers, instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking the flow, level, pressure or other variables of liquids or gases except navigational, hydrological or meteorological instruments and appliances, gas or liquid supply meters, and automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis, for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or the like, or for measuring or checking quantities of heat, sound or light; UN CPC 4826 Other measuring, checking and testing instruments and appliances.

“A sensor in process instrumentation is a device that detects and measures a physical parameter, such as temperature, pressure, flow, level or chemical composition, and converts it into an electrical signal that can be read by an instrument or control system.” (source: Process Instrumentation and Sensors - Control Engineering; www.controleng.com).

This definition excludes navigational, hydrological and meteorological instruments and appliances.

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