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<blockquote data-quote="ProDave" data-source="post: 358648" data-attributes="member: 6969"><p>The fact of the matter it it's all irrelevant.</p><p></p><p>Conformity with all the various EU standards, be it low voltage, machinery etc, rests with trading standards to enforce.</p><p></p><p>So if you make one off, or a small number of machines and use them in your own factory, in the real world, nobody will give a jot.</p><p></p><p>Put them on sale with a CE mark on it, and nobody will give a jot, unless perhaps if one of them kills or injures someone, then they may take a closer look.</p><p></p><p>Do you REALLY think all those imports from China with a CE mark REALLY comply with all the EU directives and have the documentation to support them? Are trading standards going to check them all?</p><p></p><p>When all this nonsense first came in, to start with we spent a lot of time on it, before drawing that conclusion.</p><p></p><p>Of course none of the above is to be taken as advice. but I'm not sorry to no longer be designing machinery. I used to love electrical design, but became to hate the paper trail you had to create to support anything you made.</p><p></p><p>the only time it DID matter, was one company I worked for, in a very cut throat business, would pull the competitors machine apart actively looking for non compliances and then reporting them, to try and make life difficult for the competitors and for no other reason.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ProDave, post: 358648, member: 6969"] The fact of the matter it it's all irrelevant. Conformity with all the various EU standards, be it low voltage, machinery etc, rests with trading standards to enforce. So if you make one off, or a small number of machines and use them in your own factory, in the real world, nobody will give a jot. Put them on sale with a CE mark on it, and nobody will give a jot, unless perhaps if one of them kills or injures someone, then they may take a closer look. Do you REALLY think all those imports from China with a CE mark REALLY comply with all the EU directives and have the documentation to support them? Are trading standards going to check them all? When all this nonsense first came in, to start with we spent a lot of time on it, before drawing that conclusion. Of course none of the above is to be taken as advice. but I'm not sorry to no longer be designing machinery. I used to love electrical design, but became to hate the paper trail you had to create to support anything you made. the only time it DID matter, was one company I worked for, in a very cut throat business, would pull the competitors machine apart actively looking for non compliances and then reporting them, to try and make life difficult for the competitors and for no other reason. [/QUOTE]
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