I read in !emc-pstc that Cortland Richmond <[email protected]> wrote (in <[email protected]>) about 'System test PCs - Are we cops?' on Fri, 14 Nov 2003: >Telling us here won't have any effect. If you are concerned about >violations, tell the regulatory authority. << > >This is worth some discussion, I think. > >Most of the time, EMC engineers are not cops. Among other things, we >want to be sure our OWN employers are regulation "legal." Our first >responsibility when we find non-compliant vendor-supplied items is, I >believe, to obtain correction of the condition which led to non- >compliance, so we can use the equipment we were looking at. I've seen >serious engineering teams dispatched from vendors to find out what went >wrong, and how fix it. This may be an old-fashioned response.
I don't disagree with that or anything else you wrote. But it seemed to me that the OP was more concerned about companies getting a competitive advantage by ignoring EMC issues, and in that case, it is a management, not an engineering decision, whether to trigger legal action by reporting to the regulator. -- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Interested in professional sound reinforcement and distribution? Then go to http://www.isce.org.uk PLEASE do NOT copy news posts to me by E-MAIL! 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
