In message <[email protected]>, dated Fri, 11 Sep 2015, CR
<[email protected]> writes:
Experience has convinced me that adhering to a _customer's_ test plan,
just as the customer wrote it, is thought to relieve test labs of
liability for noncompliance with standards to which those plans claim
compliance -- and enables the lab to charge less.
That is correct, as I understand the *latest* EMC Directive. It wasn't
so in the past. Test houses are no longer required to insist on doing
test that are not in the plan, and of course they bear no responsibility
for any consequent lack of conformity of the product. The whole
responsibility lies with the manufacturer.
However, a wise test house would warn the client if necessary and record
the warning.
Many of us will have seen improper use of TE, and automated tests run
by inadequately skilled operators who, because of inexperience,
ignorance and lack of supervision, didn't know when something went
wrong or was done wrong.
If the delinquency matters, it will be detected by market surveillance
or field complaints. Let's hope no actual or near fatality is involved.
--
OOO - Own Opinions Only. With best wishes. See www.jmwa.demon.co.uk
When I turn my back on the sun, it's to look for a rainbow
John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK
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