The Machinery Directive says:
"Whereas it is essential that, before issuing an EC declaration of
conformity, the manufacturer or his authorised representative
established in the Community should provide a technical construction
file; whereas it is not, however, essential that all documentation be
permanently available in a material manner, but it must be made
available on demand; whereas it need not include detailed plans of the
sub-assemblies used in manufacturing the machines, unless knowledge
of these is indispensable in order to ascertain conformity with
essential safety requirements;
My reading of this is that so long as you can deliver the document on
paper when requested by the authorities, how you store it is up to
you.
Rgds
Nick.
At 7:37 am -0800 11/12/02, Gary McInturff wrote:
Does electronic storage of the documents make any difference?
The DoC, the test reports, BOM's, drawings and Design verification
tests are all stored electronically and can be dumped from any
printer in the world. Obviously, they would have electronic
signatures.
Gary
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