Has this ever happened to you? We manufacture analysis instrumentation equipment. The part we make is usually part of a complex system made up of other CE marked equipment from many different suppliers. Sometimes when we have a system tested for CE (emissions and immunity), one of the other companies pieces of equipment will cause the "system" to fail.
I have seen some test labs identify the failing piece of equipment, write it up in the report and say it is not our problem because our equipment passes AND it is not contributing to the failure. But, what if we are selling the "system" including the CE Marked products that failed when we had it tested? It doesn't always do us much good to go to the manufacturer of the failing equipment because they will usually say that it passes when they tests it. If we were a PC manufacturer and had trouble with a printer or a monitor we could just find another one, but the equipment in our systems are more unique. There may only be 1 or 2 manufacturers of such a device and we don't have much of a choice. So here is my question. Can we sell a "system" that includes a CE marked peripheral that we have no design control over, that fails when WE have it tested? Please advise and Thank you in advance. Brian Kunde LECO Corp. ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Ron Pickard: [email protected] Dave Heald: [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://ieeepstc.mindcruiser.com/ Click on "browse" and then "emc-pstc mailing list"
