Earl - While I can't speak for all OEM pc manufacturers or intend to contradict your personal experience, without question, Sanmina-SCI's Calgary and San Jose facilities DO NOT hedge on EMC or in any other compliance discipline. We have an excellent 10 m indoor semianechoic chamber in San Jose, staffed by competent test engineers and supervised by a *very* conscientious engineering manager, whom several subscribers on this list are personally familiar. All of our staff in each of our compliance disciplines (EMC, telecom and safety) and are similarly conscientious.
We have also received very good cooperation from our internal design staff (PWB layout, signal integrity, mechanical design) in meeting the goal of designing not simply compliant products, but even a step beyond. Our group also has isolation from the manufacturing divisions up to the VP level. (The design staff are similarly isolated.) When we were divested from our previous employer (our group remains largely intact), we made explicit and voluminous noise regarding integrity and independence, and, to management's credit, we have been given that. Our accreditations tend to bear this out. It's the roosters watching this hen house. Crowing mode <OFF>. Regards, Peter L. Tarver, PE Product Safety Manager Sanmina-SCI Homologation Services San Jose, CA [email protected] From: Morse, Earl Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 8:10 AM The emigration of PC manufacturing to the PAC rim is being followed by emigration of the design and validation teams also. Many PC manufacturers have completely outsourced their EMC testing to the OEM PC manufacturers even when they own several 10 meter semi anechoic chambers. This is akin to having the fox watch over the hen house. Management says it is more economical that way. When every test is compliant and product passes the first time every time then I guess it is. Besides, it isn't compliance that anyone is really after anymore but rather a piece of paper that says it is compliant. (Neville Chamberlain effect) 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] Archive is being moved, we will announce when it is back on-line. All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
