Dear List Members I am looking your guidance on whether the EU CE Marking Directive requirements are applicable or not to "products" build during the development lifecycle for its the design verification and qualification testing. These "development versions of the "product" will not be put on to the market place but will be supplied a partner company in the UK "free of charge" as an assembly for integration into the complete system to allow the qualification testing of the complete system to be carried out. The development complete system "will also not be put on to the marketplace" in the same context that is only to be used for design qualification testing purposes.
So my question is, does the supplying "development versions of a "product" to another UK company who also are working on the same contract to produce a final product for a UK customer outside the scope of the CE Marking directive or not? That is does it have to be CE Marked or not? As part of our design process a safety assessment of "development versions of the "product"" is undertaken and the assessment documented. This assessment has to done and approved before it can be supplied to the partner company. The product being supplied has been assessed for CE Marking and only falls within the scope of the EMC Directive. It is the intention for the production standard version of this "product" to be CE Marked in accordance with the EU CE Marking Directive. That is before it is supplied to the customer. To push my luck a bit further with getting advice from the membership I have a secondary question relating to simple "Control Box" that will only be supplied and used with "early development versions of a "product"" described above to control its operation during initial development testing. The "Control Box" consists of a Die-cast box with an input connector, output connector, two toggle switches and internal wiring. The "Control Box" simply receives a 24V dc input and connects this supply to the product. The Toggle Switches switch the 24Vdc to control inputs on the product to control its mode of operation. As the "Control Box" as no "active" components I believe it can be considered as being "EMC Benign" and therefore outside the scope of the EMC directive. Therefore it doesn't need to be CE Marked. Does the membership agree with my assessment or not? PS The 24Vdc supply is provided from COTS (CE Marked) Bench DC Power Supply. All help and guidance will be greatly appreciated. Regards Philip Stevenson Senior Specialist Engineer - Electronics, Advanced Weapons, Belfast Thales Land & Air Systems Alanbrooke Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT6 9HB www.thalesgroup.com/uk<http://www.thalesgroup.com/uk> Tel: +44 (0)28 90465665 e-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Please consider the environment before printing a hard copy of this email. The information contained in this e-mail is confidential. It is intended only for the stated addressee(s) and access to it by any other person is unauthorised. If you are not an addressee, you must not disclose, copy, circulate or in any other way use or rely on the information contained in this e-mail. Such unauthorised use may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please inform us immediately on +44 (0) [28 905200] and delete it and all copies from your system. Thales UK Limited. A company registered in England and Wales. Registered Office: 2 Dashwood Lang Road, The Bourne Business Park, Addlestone, Weybridge, Surrey KT15 2NX. Registered Number: 868273 - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://www.ieee-pses.org/list.html (including how to unsubscribe) 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]>
