Dear colleagues, This questions might have been asked before. Still looking for answers...
Our company purchases power distribution equipment designed per our specs. This equipment is not put on the market, but integrated in our products, and does safety/EMC functions(EMI filtering, protection, emergency stop) among other things, in accordance to the EC Directives applicable to our product. We believe there is no point to have it CE marked but only compliant with the standards we need. The text of the EMC Directive reads "the manufacturer may subcontract certain operations, e.g., apparatus design or production, provided that he retains overall control and responsibility for the apparatus as a whole. By the same token, he may use ready-made items or components, CE marked or not, to produce the apparatus without losing his status as a manufacturer." We follow the Technical Construction File route for CE marking. What's the documentation required from our sub-contractors that proves compliance with the EN standards we indicate? Do we need complete copies of test reports, technical description, analysis, or just a statement of compliance would do the job? What's the legal value of such a paper in North-America? As we don't control their production (parts, quality, etc,) what's the documentation we shall request to ensure all production units are compliant? What's the industry/your practice in this case? Alexandru Guidea CAE Inc. Montreal, CANADA ------------------------------------------- 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"
