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Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Gary McInturff <[email protected]> writes:
Well not really John - ANSI has no regulatory authority but money does.
A business isn't likely to simply add either NRE cost or cost per unit
without justification - poor product performance, competitive
advantage, regulation.
But therein lies an anomaly. Those US experts are employed to help write
immunity standards by the businesses you say, correctly in many cases,
do not favour anything that might increase total product cost. (Immunity
doesn't add much to the hardware cost of a good design, but immunity
testing is an additional cost.)
Poor performance isn't even a clean definition - if I have one failure
out of 10,000 because of ESD for example - just ship them another one
etc.
ESD is a special case; immunity to radiated RF is a more tractable
phenomenon.
My personal opinion is that proper operation in the field is as
important as any other functional specification but whether it's done
through self-enforcement or governmental regulation is a thorny
question.
Agreed in principle; this is a universal question. Consider
self-enforcement of speed limits, or homicide.
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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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