A comment to Ron in particular: I think the answer to your question is "reality" and "practicality".
I came to more or less the same conclusion at least 5 years ago as we have
so much legislation to deal with nowadays, and many of the problems and
solutions are common.
That means we need to identify, solve and record much of the same (or
virtually the same) information for a variety of purposes - therefore why
not use a single document structure to list and store it all.
Therefore, in conjunction with Engineers here, I created a thing we call
the "Product Regulatory Archive File" ("PRAF") - the name of which is
quite deliberately different from TCF, TF etc.
Sounds odd, but each word has a fairly obvious meaning:
- Product = For a specific Product or system
- Regulatory = Holds Regulatory information
- Archive = Long term storage and updating
- File = File (or file structure in reality).
It encompasses all the requirements for all the regulations and each
section has a very common structure.
The attached document gives the structure of Sections 1 to 3 of our PRAF -
and the remaining sections are generally clones of the LVD section but with
somewhat different requirements and routes to compliance:
This WORD 97 file is only 32kB and is intended to be printed on A4
Landscape paper - but the full one for the PRAF structure is much bigger
and is in Tabular form!
Nevertheless have fun and I would appreciate comments from anyone.
Other versions of a similar concept would be appreciated by me (and
probably a few other people!).
John Allen
Product & System Safety Manager
Communications Division
Racal Defence Electronics Ltd
Bracknell
UK
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Sent: 01 March 2000 18:12
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Subject: RE: Technical Files
Hello Brian,
Could you please provide more information as to who is driving this?
Regards,
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 4:07 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Technical Files
Just to throw an English two pennorth into this discussion
There appears to be a move in the UK towards creating a single
technical file in which you keep the records , test results drawings
calculations etc for every directive that your product has to comply
with. i.e Low voltage, emc, pressure equipment etc.
The object being that should the worst happen you have a nice tidy
document to show that you have shown "due diligence" which seems
to be what the courts will be looking for.
As other correspondents have stated this does not apply if you have
chosen the TCF route for emc compliance
Regards
Brian Harlowe
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