Mr. Woodgate's point is, of course, a basic truth. But there are other 'basic' truths to corporate life; i.e., what a North American company will tolerate in terms of resource allocation/consumption. So if a non-core engineering or support activity consumes more than a 'minimal' portion of time and/or budget, then the immediate response of bean counters is to outsource the activity.
For example, in Southern California, I used to have contact with at least four other Product Safety engineers in my employer's industry sector. I am the last one standing (perhaps not much longer). Many companies have eliminated compliance engineering and outsourced to agency labs. For example, note that most of the product safety job openings in this area are from these same agencies (www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/ocs/pses/jobs.html). The limitation to the application of Mr. Woodgate's basic truth is that few western companies consider participation in standards development an "investment"; mostly because "the time and money" for a non-core engineering activity is viewed as a zero-sum game. It is my opinion that if my employer had to answer to western/institutional stock holders, my job (and several others) would not exist. As for margins, my employer's policy is for 8dB (6 dB is probably more reasonable) for conducted emissions. And there have been situations where that was not enough for a customer's (noisy) product. luck and health, Brian > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of John > Woodgate > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 10:19 PM > To: Bill Owsley > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Internal Margins for Emissions Testing > > In message <[email protected]>, > dated Thu, 28 > Jun 2007, Bill Owsley <[email protected]> writes: > > >Why o why can't we have standards that cover every > possibility we can > >think of??? > > Do you or your employer have the time and money to help > write them? We > get the standards that our investment in the > standards-making process > permits. > -- > OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk > There are benefits from being irrational - just ask the > square root of 2. > John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
