>> A cost analysis can be used to determine the payback time. I know of no good way to determine the "opportunity costs" and I have not seen accountants pay much attention to this. <<
Some years ago, at a VERY cheap company, I was able to justify the complete cost of a brand-new spectrum analyzer as less than the expense of calibrating our old 141T and its various plugins (6 month interval) for one year. Cortland 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
