A few years back with another company I was in one of these situations. Soon after the EMC Directive went into effect, I spent days at the direction of a manager trying to provide proof that our product legally only needed to meet Class A for Europe. In the end, none of this mattered, because the end customer (large telecom company) insisted on Class B and would accept nothing else. I have since found that regulatory issues are almost always customer issues. Managers and business people understand this. No one wants to be selling a product that doesn't meet all the applicable safety or EMC requirements. Competitors would have a heyday with it.
Darrell Locke ---------- From: Schanker, Jack To: ri...@sdd.hp.com Cc: emc-p...@ieee.org Subject: That doesn't make any sense List-Post: emc-pstc@listserv.ieee.org Date: Friday, July 30, 1999 6:36AM Rich: I want to thank you, and compliment you, for so accurately describing managment reactions to regulatory "problems" in your July 20 posting to the emc-pstc. It completely mirrors my own past (and continuing) experiences. I have also gotten the reaction "well, that doesn't make any sense" in relation to an inconvenient rule in some international standard. "Why did they do that" ? is asked, like I should know. Then the big question: "Can we get a waiver"? Dialogue: "No, I don't think so." Manager: "Did you try"? The years of experience and intuitive feel for what is and what is not possible, mean little to the uninformed arrogance of a manager who is used to having it his way (almost always "his") and expecting the world to turn at his command. The "bad news" aspect also looms large, as you so aptly describe. Gotta get back to work. Jack Jacob Z. Schanker, P.E. Director of Agency Compliance Adaptive Broadband Corporation 175 Science Parkway Rochester, NY 14620 USA +716 242 8454 (voice) +716 241 5590 (fax) jschan...@adaptivebroadband.com The opinions expressed above are obviously someone else's. --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to majord...@ieee.org with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, jim_bac...@monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators). --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to majord...@ieee.org with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, jim_bac...@monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators).
