Scott,
Lab Accreditation
I don't know if you have seen my note on the accreditation of facilities
outside Korea, but the RRL in Korea are not accrediting labs outside Korea
until MOUs/MRAs are in place.
Manuals
The test house we are using have quoted us a cost of US$10/page translated.
Distributors
This is what the RRL told me during my visit (this information was not what
Estech, the EMI consultants / test house we are using in Korea, told me) :
1. Only one certification number is required to cover your distributors.
2. (This is the nasty one). The applicant and EACH distributor has to
perform the annual retest. In your case this means 6 retest per year per
product. The reason the RRL gave for this requirement is to cover one model
of a product being manufactured in more than one location (I guess it
covers PC distributors who make up systems from kits of parts to differing
levels of quality). I have asked our EMI consultants to discuss the
possibility of registering the manufacturing facilities as an alternative.
I will keep you posted.
Kind regards,
Chris Allen
Senior Approvals Engineer
3Com Europe Ltd.
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Date: Friday August 1, 1997 15:28
Subject: Korea EMC
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Ryan,
I read your response to the "Korea in a Nut Shell" message. Thank you for
that.
I have some questions and comments.
1. How does a US lab apply for and get accreditation from the Korean
government for EMI testing? I would like my local test house to apply.
2. Your price of U$670 for test, report and certification application is
half the cost of a test and report at my local test house. I do not have to
apply to the FCC for Class A equipment. A one day (6-8 hours) test is done
and it takes 10 days to get the report. Your cost and turn-around time are
half what I get here.
3. Touche on the language issue. I am paying for 6 (now 7 with Korea)
translations all the time. I don't like it but it is a cost of doing
business.
4. If my product continues to be imported into Korea after one year, you
say I need to have a test report to check the product's EMI condition as
compared to the original and that I have to apply to the Korean lab to get
the test report.
Question - does the Korean lab just re-print the original report or do I
have to send another sample of the product back for another test? How is
the product checked against the original tested product?
>From an e-mail on 8 April 1997 from you to Bharat Shah regarding labeling
of the product - - If I have five distributors importing the same products,
you said that each of them has to get certification by applying for "same
product verification".
Does that mean that each distributor must apply for this? Who do they apply
to? Is it possible for me to get the registration, label the products here
at my factory and ship them to the five distributors with all getting the
same label?
Most of my products will be shipped with my name on the certification
label. That label has all of the approvals needed on it, that is CSA,
CSA/NRTL, TUV, CE Marking, FCC statements, etc. Can I just add the Korean
label requirements to my existing certification label? I do not put dealer
or distributor names on my certification label or anywhere else on my
products in this case.
I do, however, sometimes do some private labeling. A customer of mine will
have us place their name on the front of the product, i.e. the marketing
name of the product. My certification label with my name and all approvals
is placed on the back of the product. How does this affect the questions in
the paragraph above?
In a third variation, some of my customers contract us to make products for
them and their name is placed on the certification label as well as on the
marketing labels. In this case, I get CSA, TUV, etc. certifications in
their name with me as the manufacturing location for that customer. How
does this affect the questions in the paragraph above?
Finally, someone at our embassy in Korea provided me with a chart that
lists the products that need to have EMI testing. My products are not on
that chart. It was in Korean and he provided it to me with his translation
of the product types. It is not official and I cannot refer to it or
attribute it to him. The chart is from a book, page 385 and the title is
"Items subject to EMI testing" that he obtained from RRL. The hard
question, if my product is not on that chart and I classify my product as
Information Technology Equipment, then do I still need to get EMI
registration?
The chart listed the following equipment as subject to EMI testing:
Wired Telecom Terminals
Private Branch Exchanges
Modems
Credit Card Reference Machines
Teletex
Keyphones
Telex
Facsimilie Machines
Videotext
Videophones
Word Processors
Copying Machines
General Purpose Computers
Minicomputers
Business Computers
Industrial Computers
Personal Computers
Plotters (x,y plotters and drafting machines)
Printers
Data Service Units (DSU)
Multiplexers (MUX)
Monitors
Keyboards
Motherboards for PC's
Power supply for PC's
Cards for monitors (from among input/output interfaces for PC's)
End of list from chart.
Many thanks for all of your efforts to keep us going in the right
direction. It is frustrating to sit here so far away while trying to cope
with new rules in a land with a language we cannot read, write or speak. My
compliments to you for making the effort to learn our language.
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Regards,
Scott Douglas
Principal Compliance Engineer
ECRM Incorporated
Telephone: 1-508-851-0207
Facsimilie: 1-508-851-7016
e-mail: [email protected]
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