Cynthia, I suggest you force marketing to give you a prioritized "must have" list of countries. Given the size of your staff and, with what I would assume to be, low priority status with engineering, you'll want keep that list as short as possible. Even with the help of labs and consultants, it is time consuming and costly. Start at the top of the list, and gradually work up to the number of concurrent tasks that you and your staff can comfortably handle.
George Seminsky Manager, Hardware Systems & Compliance Nuera Communications Ph 619 625 9220 ext 1248 Fax 619 625 2422 From: [email protected] (Cynthia Pleach), on 7/30/97 4:16 PM: Digi developed and released an analog modem for sale in North America. Product Management is considering kicking off a project to take the product world wide. My experience with analog is limited to the North American requirements. I am aware of what is going on in Europe with TBR21 and have read past messages on analog. I gather that analog approval is country by country, very time consuming, and expensive. What I am tasked with doing at the moment is writing a recommendation to management on how Digi could approach analog approvals. The biggest problem is I do not have the key information I need to make a recommendation. Things like cost for approval, time to approval, etc. Also what would a consultant bring to the table. Should I farm the entire process to an approval agency, should I attempt to gain the approvals on my own? As you can see I need lots of help (of course people that know me well could have told you that !!) I don't expect that anyone out there can hand me a complete analog approval guidebook with all this information, but what I was hoping is that anyone that has faced this situation could share their experience with me. What are really the most important factors for a company to consider when approaching this type of task?, etc. My boss does not expect me to hand him a list of every country in the world and what their approval process is, but he does expect a recommendation for how I intent to get this feat accomplished. All advice is welcome!! A few facts you may need, 1) homologation is staffed currently with only 2 people 2) engineers are responsible for the design and normally support all approval testing 3) Digi has distributors in most countries and we utilize them often for ISDN approvals so they are available to me as a resource Sorry for such a long message. Cynthia E. Pleach Principle Homologation Engineer Digi International email [email protected] phone 612 912 3206 fax 612 912 4955
