Chapter 16 EMC management

16.1 Managing the EMC process

Implementing a strategy of EMC compliance within a company is much more than simply ensuring that the product designers make their designs meet the standards – although this is a first step. EMC awareness, like quality and safety awareness needs to extend vertically and horizontally throughout the company if it is to be effective. This means that each department must know what its role is in maintaining a product’s EMC and why. This applies with particular force to the purchasing, production and installation groups.

It also means that business and management decisions affecting EMC should be made in a similar climate of awareness. Investment decisions on EMC test facilities are a clear ...

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