Re: [PSES] How to lose another million dollars

[John Woodgate]

It's inevitable that there still are some dinosaurs around who don't see 
the need for both making the project leader internally responsible for 
compliance (so that Development and Compliance share interests instead 
of being opposed) and for the need for pre-compliance checks on the 
first 'good' engineering model (not the first model that 'sort-of' 
works, that's too early).

John Woodgate OOO-Own Opinions Only
J M Woodgate and Associates www.woodjohn.uk
Rayleigh, Essex UK
On 2018-09-14 17:03, Pete Perkins wrote:

James,  Oh yes, I have another real life story.  In dealing with the 
compliance issues on a product I recommended that they run a 
pre-compliance EMC check and the chief electrical engineer rebutted 
that it was so straightforward that they would do that last, just 
before releasing the product to marketing. His position was that this 
is basic engineering stuff and any competent design engineer would get 
it right to begin with or a simple fix would take care of it.    With 
a little backpressure the pre-scan was done and the product failed 
miserably.  Needless to say, it took a number of trials to get it all 
properly fixed to pass; the release date was missed and the chief 
electrical engineer lost his job over it.  So we see: lunacy runs both 
ways.

:>) br,      Pete

Peter E Perkins, PE

Principal Product Safety & Regulatory Affairs Consultant

PO Box 23427

Tigard, ORe  97281-3427

503/452-1201

IEEE Life Fellow

p.perk...@ieee.org <mailto:p.perk...@ieee.org>

*From:*James Pawson (U3C) <ja...@unit3compliance.co.uk>
*Sent:* Friday, September 14, 2018 8:00 AM
*To:* EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG
*Subject:* Re: [PSES] How to lose another million dollars

Hi John,

Is this an actual true story? I’m lost for words...

James

*From:*John Woodgate <j...@woodjohn.uk <mailto:j...@woodjohn.uk>>
*Sent:* 14 September 2018 12:57
*To:* EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG <mailto:EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG>
*Subject:* [PSES] How to lose another million dollars

Prepare for sob story. Company X has implemented the sensible policy 
of making the project leader internally responsible for EMC and safety 
compliance, i.e., when the product is tested by the compliance 
experts, it passes or has only minor defects.

So John Doe takes his engineering model, scheduled for production in 9 
months time to Compliance and asks for pre-compliance checks. No can 
do, is the reply. Our new policy is that only products whose planned 
release date is 4 months or less ahead can be checked.

Truly, nothing is fool-proof because Nature keeps producing more and 
more ingenious fools.

--
John Woodgate OOO-Own Opinions Only
J M Woodgate and Associates www.woodjohn.uk <http://www.woodjohn.uk>
Rayleigh, Essex UK

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