I was on contract to write a test plan for a new AED when one of the
project managers complained about the cost of doing all the tests. "No
one else does, it's a competitive disadvantage. Why make it so difficult?"
Rather than fall back on "Because you can't legally sell them without,"
I replied "I don't want to kill people we're trying to save."
He went away.
In fact, a lot of EMI tests are not immediately critical to the life of
a person being treated, but the ambulance still has to be able to hear
the dispatcher. Some of them do relate to function; its radio shouldn't
shut down treatment*, or an AED's processor decision be mislead by
overhead locomotive power at 16 2/3 Hz.** Nor do you want to interfere
with aircraft collision avoidance or its communications. So I kept it
simple.
*Reported to have resulted in death in either a Glen Dash column, or an
EMC Club Banana Skins; I forget which.
** www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15294405
Might we have a psychologist speak at an EMC Symposium on "How to talk
your boss into doing the right thing"?
Cortland Richmond
On 12/7/2012 0232, John Woodgate wrote:
Safety and EMC 3rd party testing costs are properly a marketing
expense, because they are incurred in order to be allowed on to the
market. They are not a charge on R&D, because the products work
perfectly OK without the testing.
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