Mark,
I am just trying to understand.
You describe a facility that costs in the area of 15 to 20 million dollars.
You describe a staff that costs you $2 Million a year just in salaries and
benefits. And you forgot the sales and administrative people that will support
your investment that probably costs another $1 Million.
Due to new and changing standards you are purchasing $1 to $5 Million in
new equipment each year.
And then you are paying utilities, taxes and everything else that goes
with a business.
And you last statement, you are making tons of dough? At $1.5k - $2k per
eight hour shift, per test or $30k per day (10 technicians, 10 engineers). You
might want to check your math. 200 work days a year that comes out to $6
Million or $8 Million if you are running a fine tuned machine.
I don't think even an Intertek, Bureau Veritas, TUV or other large
organization, would say they can make tons of dough with the investment you
describe in any economy. Maybe I am just too small to understand your dream,
or to out of touch with how well the big guys make money.
Just a thought from a guy that put $5k 14 years ago to start a lab from
scatch. I know you want this to be fun, but lets be a little more realistic.
>From what you describe I am not sure you ever recover your investment.
Larry Stillings
Compliance Worldwide, Inc.
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From: Mark Gandler [mailto:markgand...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 2:27 PM
To: emc-pstc@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG
Subject: Dream come true: Building your own compliance test lab, pros and cons
Hi,
I assume this subject probably was brought up at one point or another, so if
someone can point me to archives or have some useful links/info, please send.
As most of us compliance folks, who does not have a privilege to work for a
company with unlimited resources and CEO being formal EMC engineer, we all
dream what one day we will have full blown REGULATORY COMPLIANCE lab (in my
dream it comes in caps) with 2 10m anechoic chambers, open site with pastoral
views and fountains, any possible immunity gadgets, RF chamber for wireless
testing,
Safety heaven, walk-in closet of ferrites, 2 Phd's, 10 engineers, 10
technicians and 1 cute office manager. And it's all yours. And you are making
tons of dough.
Well short of that, could some of you share experiences of building your own
compliance lab (not just 3-5m chamber for pre-compliance emissions):
* did you start from scratch or had some basic first aid: receivers,
chambers,
personnel?
* was it only for EMC or as well for Wireless, Safety, telecom?
* did you get accreditations?
* how soon did you recover your investment? and what was acceptable time
frame: 2/3/4 years?
* which tests you still have to take outside? UL/FCC DFS/A-tick?
* did you do it yourself or used some turn-key solution companies?
* and the last, but not least, how much?
I know it is not as exciting as runaways Toyota's, but let's try to make it
fun.
Thanks,
Mark Gandler
Compliance
Netgear
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