Hi Doug:
My employer had a course entitled “Zero Defects.” We were encouraged to apply
it to our function. Mine, of course, was safety certification and all that it
entailed. Good course as it wanted a scorecard for each activity.
Using the scorecard, all my submittals went without action items. Okay, a few
action items that I successfully showed them where they were wrong. I took to
arguing with the cert engineer. In one case, he wouldn’t accept my argument,
so I took the product to another cert house and was successful.
I applied the same process to follow-up inspections. After a year or so of no
defects, the certification house was upset. So, they sent a bigwig to
accompany the inspector (probably to check whether I was intimidating the
inspector). No defects!
Rich
From: Douglas E Powell <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2021 10:55 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [PSES] Friday question
Out of curiosity,
I would like to know (especially from those who have been in the business for a
while) what is your "first pass success rate" for safety certifications on new
product introductions? That is, to achieve a product safety certification from
an accredited laboratory with no action items required coming out of the
preliminary design review. It's helpful if you can indicate how complex the
projects are.
In my 26 years as a compliance engineer, I've observed possibly three in total
for products with a reasonably high complexity.
Thanks! Doug
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Douglas E Powell
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dougp01
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