My love affair with Tek scopes from that era continues. I have two at home. And one in the safety lab, which drives the boss crazy, thus making its retention all worthwhile...
The level of test is probably an order of magnitude greater than that era, but perhaps noticed less because most test is automated and most stuff is designed with test in mind (remember the old DFT push?). As for commercial product transport tests -> very common and some of these tests are fun to do. Also, in addition to the ANSI and ASTM and IEC stuff, the major carriers also publish specs and profiles and tests for packaging based on a well-defined transport environment. Brian From: Ed Price [mailto:edpr...@cox.net] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 5:40 PM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: Re: [PSES] RE2: [PSES] Television Manufacturing Documentary From The Late 1950's - YouTube I was surprised to see Transportation Shock being run on a fully boxed TV. I hadn't realized that any commercial manufacturers had ever done that; I thought it was a strictly military idea. Also, I didn't see anyone smoking. Prior to about 1980, everyone smoked everywhere (or so it seemed to a non-smoker). Ed Price WB6WSN Chula Vista, CA USA -----Original Message----- From: Pete Perkins [mailto:00000061f3f32d0c-dmarc-requ...@ieee.org] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 10:21 AM To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Subject: [PSES] RE2: [PSES] Television Manufacturing Documentary From The Late 1950's - YouTube PSNet'ers, I enjoyed this video very much. Having worked at Tektronix in the business since about that time as depicted in the video it all looked like what we did day by day to get a quality product out. I am pleased to see the use of Tek scopes prominently displayed since I developed CRT displays for a number of products during that time - before I got involved in the safety & regulatory activities. Ted is correct, much of the testing has been automated but, in my opinioin, is more rigorous today; component testing has also been pushed back on the supplier. All of this improves the reliability of the equipment. Thanx for this blast from the past. :>) br, Pete Peter E Perkins, PE Principal Product Safety Engineer PO Box 23427 Tigard, ORe 97281-3427 503/452-1201 fone/fax p.perk...@ieee.org - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <emcp...@radiusnorth.net> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald: <dhe...@gmail.com>