Contrary to popular opinion, the TCF route is not designed to "get around" standards.
Bob Heller 3M Product Safety, 76-1-01 St. Paul, MN 55107-1208 Tel: 651- 778-6336 Fax: 651-778-6252 ======================================================================= John Woodgate <jmw@jmwa.demon To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org .co.uk> cc: (bcc: Robert E. Heller/US-Corporate/3M/US) Subject: Re: CE MARKING A SYSTEM 04/30/2002 08:55 AM Please respond to John Woodgate I read in !emc-pstc that Gordon,Ian <ian.gor...@edwards.boc.com> wrote (in <E1BA0362B28ED211A1E80008C71EA30601818F4F@EXC_EAS01>) about 'CE MARKING A SYSTEM', on Tue, 30 Apr 2002: >Can anyone advise the course of action in applying a CE mark as regards EMC >to a system some of whose component parts are not built by us and whose D of >C's claim light industrial immunity. However, the system has been running in >very harsh environments e.g. plasma etch applications at customer sites and >we wish to claim industrial level immunity for the system. The system is >obviously "fit for purpose" in the intended environment. >We have performed radiated testing to this level on the whole system. >Unfortunately if we surge test these "light industrial" components which >form part of the system we are certain they will fail at the appropriate >levels. One component is an "industrial" PC. >Does anybody have any suggestions as to what action to take to allow us to >apply the CE mark and claim industrial immunity? If you are sure it won't pass the normal industrial immunity tests, but is fit for purpose and thus you don't want to have to make it conform, you have to use the Technical File route. -- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Interested in professional sound reinforcement and distribution? Then go to http://www.isce.org.uk PLEASE do NOT copy news posts to me by E-MAIL! ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list" ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: emc-p...@hypercom.com Dave Heald: davehe...@attbi.com For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"