Fellow Compliance Engineers, Certainly we would all prefer that our company's products be designed for initial/immediate compliance, that we have multiple samples available for testing, and that all the testing is completed without failure. However, in the real world scenario of one sample for both safety & EMC, that may not pass all tests, would you recommend that safety certification/testing be done before or after EMC testing? The key issue being whether a "fix" for one discipline will require a re-test for the other discipline.
Personally, I have always recommended that safety be done 1st for two reasons: 1) Changes for safety almost always affect EMC testing but EMC changes seldom affect safety testing and, 2) Safety re-tests are far less expensive than EMC re-tests. Do you agree? Any there any other philosophies on this topic? Thanks for your input, Bill Bisenius E.D.& D. bi...@productsafet.com <mailto:bi...@productsafet.com> This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ 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: emc_p...@symbol.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://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
