http://www.ieee-pses.org/symposium http://www.emc2004.org/ -------------------------------------------------- The CE Mark is a self Declaration and does not require a CB certification and report for you to self declare by creating a DoC and CE marking your product. In addition to the DoC and CE Mark on the product you are required to maintain a file, called a Technical Construction or Documentation File (depending on who you ask), where you keep all the test data, safety critical component compliance information, schematics, drawing etc which support your CE Mark declaration. If the compliance of your product is ever challenged by the authorities in the EU the CB report can be useful for you to be able to supply the information or test data to support your claim of compliance. It may also lend credibility with the authorities as it is issued by an EU National Certification Body (NCB), such as TUV Rheinland, UL,CSA, etc., as opposed to submitting your own test data. We get CB certifications on all our products and use the CB report as the main document in our CE TCF/TDF to support our CE Declaration. Keep in mind also that outside of the Europe the CE Mark is generally not recognized. We have found that, particularly in Asia, a CB report and certificate is useful in that for most countries you will not have to have the testing repeated when going for individual country marks saving time and money. CB reports for power supplies also save time and money as many Asian Test agencies will accept the power supply with little or no testing involved or construction review........... IMHO a CB certification and report is one of the best investments you can make when trying to gain World Wide certification acceptance.........
From: [email protected] mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian O'Connell Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 4:28 PM To: Dan Anchondo; [email protected] Subject: RE: IEC and the CB Scheme http://www.ieee-pses.org/symposium http://www.emc2004.org/ -------------------------------------------------- Conflict of Interest Notice: My employer makes component power supplies. The CB report is not "required", but life will probably be more pleasant if you use component power supplies that are covered by a CB report. If the unit has agency (e.g., UL, TUV, etc) and CE marks, and the certification indicates UL/EN60950-1, and you have do some additional Type Tests, I suppose that you should be able to get your end-use product certified, and a CB issued for your widget. It is very important that you, as the installer, observe the installation instructions and Conditions of Acceptability for the component power supply. If you submit at least (3) products per year, it may be worth your time and efforts to get SMT or WMT accreditation, so that you can perform tests and write your own CB reports. There is no such thing as a "CE safety report". luck, Brian -----Original Message----- From: Dan Anchondo [ mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 12:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: IEC and the CB Scheme All Can somebody point to a link that requires a CB report for ITE for a CE safety report. My list of target countries has week to week changes so would it be useful to have a CB on my power supply? If I am forced to Ill have a CB report done but I am trying to limit currency flow to labs. Thanks Dan Anchondo ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. IEEE PSES Main Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions for use of the list server: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html 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://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. IEEE PSES Main Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions for use of the list server: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html 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://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
