Re:Cloud-Based Circuit Board Assembly
by cottonseed on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @08:45AM
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I should state up front I know nothing about the certification process. I agree, there is a lot of benefit to having a working system, even if it means barrier to entry is high. It sounds from your comment like most of the cost is due to the regulatory structure, and not from the testing end, is that right? I'd love to see a cost breakdown of doing a certification. Someone else quoted $250-500/hr for testing. What goes in to that? Testing equipment? Facility build out? Testing technicians?
If I was a government employee, I'd probably think it was right and proper to better protect Americans from stray radio interference from slipshod products than to reduce the one-time NRE charges to bring those products to market. It's not that I'm accusing them of shallow-mindedness, just that they have a perspective that the current process is working pretty well. (My perspective of trying to do a production run of 250 or 500 units of something is entirely different, but I can't make a compelling argument that "fixes" my problem without imagining that I might be introducing other, worse-on-balance problems.)