Bob, I cannot tell for safety tests, but as far as it concerns EMC, Schaffner has an auto-report feature in their Compliance 3 software used for EMC testing.
This would mean to convert all your tests for the use of this software, and I do not know if this is an option. The idea is the same - you have a Word template, but instead of copying the data manually, this happens automatically. There are probably other programs on the market, but this is the only I had occasion to play with. Best regards, Michael Michael Nagel Senior EMC Engineer Motorola GmbH ECC Embedded Communications Computing Lilienthalstrasse 15 85579 Neubiberg/Muenchen - Germany Ph: +49-89-9608-0 Fax: +49-89-9608-2376 e-mail: [email protected] info: http://www.motorola.com/computers From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 10:40 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Question on producing compliance documentation more efficiently I manage a small in-house compliance test house. We produce EMC and Product Safety technical files for each product to meet the European Legislation. At the moment we produce these by hand with the aid of Word templates. The level of work over the past eighteen months or so has been such that we can't keep up with demand - the documentation lags behind the test programs. Are there commercially available computer applications out there for producing this kind of work? Looking at what we produce, it's maybe 90% boilerplate, but still very labour intensive and repetitive across test spec, test report and technical file in terms of cutting and pasting information to suit a particular project. Anybody out there found a smarter solution to this? I'd like to spend much more time sorting out design issues and preaching the word and far less time clerking. Regards, Bob Edwards, Product Compliance Technical Authority Westinghouse Rail Systems Ltd., Chippenham, Wilts, U.K. Tel: (0)1249-441544 Fax: (0)1249-442662 - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [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. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
