In message <[email protected]>, dated Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Brian O'Connell <[email protected]> writes:
>Wellllll, the basis of my employer's accreditations is that the local >safety puke (me) has to review and sign off every lousy stinkin ECO >from engineering and the factories and sales. > >So this process should prevent a change in material that would effect >safety in negative manner. And life shall remain wonderful... Don't underestimate the ingenuity of buyers to obtain something different from what Engineering specified, at a saving of 0.001 cent per million. Or something that has worked OK for 18 months and then fails dismally because the manufacturer, without telling anyone, switched to another factory, which uses a different adhesive, varnish, potting compound, ... -- OOO - Own Opinions Only. Try www.jmwa.demon.co.uk and www.isce.org.uk There are benefits from being irrational - just ask the square root of 2. John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK - 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 email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
