Gary - You seem to be doing just fine for your current market. As you market expands (you mentioned GOST), however, the CB Scheme Test Report does offer portability to a greater degree than a lesser. Many of the agencies will want a sample for a looksee, a few may want to perform minor verification tests or testing to accommodate applicable national deviations from the base standard. Overall, you will save time and inventory, but not necessarily money, by using the CB Scheme. Without it, you might wind up having to provide one or more samples to any of several test houses.
Alternatively, you could also look into what Mutual Recognition Agreements your domestic test house has with foreign test houses to see if they meet your needs. Regards, Peter L. Tarver Nortel [email protected] > ---------- > From: Gary McInturff[SMTP:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, June 22, 1998 9:09 AM > > If ignorance is bliss I must be a pretty happy guy. I have sort of > avoided asking this question because I seem to be the only guy that > doesn't fully understand the answer to this question. > Currently I use the standard US/Canadian private label mark and > one from Germany to meet the appropriate safety requirements. Our > principle market are US, Europe, and Japan. > I can get both the US and European investigations done > concurrently with the same product samples, and I have yet to have a > problem getting the equipment accepted by either the clients or the > countries in which they reside. > Given that what are the advantages I am not seeing in a CB > scheme report? > On the face of it a CB scheme report seems to be the proverbial > one-stop-shopping solution we would all like to see. But as I check into > it further a CB report doesn't seem to really provide a final answer. > Each agency still has the prerogative of requesting samples although > they may accept the test data from the CB approved lab. (UL for example > indicated they probably would want a sample along with the report). > Whether the issue is testing or product evaluation having to have some > agency put me in their queue for approval seems to be a big step > backwards. > Currently, having recognized private label marks for Europe and the US > has yet to cause a hitch in the normal customer base shipments. > GOST and NOM are on the horizon and I suppose that because I > have to send them products anyway because they are not part of the EC > and want their own marks it suggests that a CB report might be > beneficial in this case in speeding up the approval but overall I don't > see a significant benefit to a CB scheme instead of my current approach. > Am I missing the obvious? Am I making my life more difficult and > expensive than it should be? >
