It's inevitable that there still are some dinosaurs around who don't see
the need for both making the project leader internally responsible for
compliance (so that Development and Compliance share interests instead
of being opposed) and for the need for pre-compliance checks on the
first 'good' engineering model (not the first model that 'sort-of'
works, that's too early).
John Woodgate OOO-Own Opinions Only
J M Woodgate and Associates www.woodjohn.uk
Rayleigh, Essex UK
On 2018-09-14 17:03, Pete Perkins wrote:
James, Oh yes, I have another real life story. In dealing with the
compliance issues on a product I recommended that they run a
pre-compliance EMC check and the chief electrical engineer rebutted
that it was so straightforward that they would do that last, just
before releasing the product to marketing. His position was that this
is basic engineering stuff and any competent design engineer would get
it right to begin with or a simple fix would take care of it. With
a little backpressure the pre-scan was done and the product failed
miserably. Needless to say, it took a number of trials to get it all
properly fixed to pass; the release date was missed and the chief
electrical engineer lost his job over it. So we see: lunacy runs both
ways.
:>) br, Pete
Peter E Perkins, PE
Principal Product Safety & Regulatory Affairs Consultant
PO Box 23427
Tigard, ORe 97281-3427
503/452-1201
IEEE Life Fellow
p.perk...@ieee.org <mailto:p.perk...@ieee.org>
*From:*James Pawson (U3C) <ja...@unit3compliance.co.uk>
*Sent:* Friday, September 14, 2018 8:00 AM
*To:* EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG
*Subject:* Re: [PSES] How to lose another million dollars
Hi John,
Is this an actual true story? I’m lost for words...
James
*From:*John Woodgate <j...@woodjohn.uk <mailto:j...@woodjohn.uk>>
*Sent:* 14 September 2018 12:57
*To:* EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG <mailto:EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG>
*Subject:* [PSES] How to lose another million dollars
Prepare for sob story. Company X has implemented the sensible policy
of making the project leader internally responsible for EMC and safety
compliance, i.e., when the product is tested by the compliance
experts, it passes or has only minor defects.
So John Doe takes his engineering model, scheduled for production in 9
months time to Compliance and asks for pre-compliance checks. No can
do, is the reply. Our new policy is that only products whose planned
release date is 4 months or less ahead can be checked.
Truly, nothing is fool-proof because Nature keeps producing more and
more ingenious fools.
--
John Woodgate OOO-Own Opinions Only
J M Woodgate and Associates www.woodjohn.uk <http://www.woodjohn.uk>
Rayleigh, Essex UK
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