200th Competent Body Assessment
York EMC Services Ltd recently passed a milestone within its Competent Body activity
by archiving its 200th Technical Construction File (TCF) Assessment, making York EMC Services Ltd
one of the most active Competent Bodies.
Most of the assessments are carried out at the Company’s Donibristle offices in
Fife, Scotland.
Experience of assessments has shown that manufacturers use
TCFs to demonstrate compliance to the EMC
Directive (89/336/EEC) for three main reasons:
- The apparatus is too large to test at an EMC laboratory – eg Drag Line Excavator.
- The manufacturer chooses to use EMC standards that have not been published in the
Official Journal of the European Community. This may be because the standards used are defined
by contract – eg apparatus for the railway environment.
- There are many similar variants of the apparatus. The largest number so far has been 4000!
The range of apparatus covered by the
TCFs which have been assessed by
York EMC Services Ltd is extremely wide. Just a few examples are given below:
- Air compressors and fans
- Automatic test systems
- Coal cutting machines
- Crawler cranes
- Domestic gas boilers
- Electricity power stations
- Electronic test and measurement
equipment
- Elevating work platforms
- Forklift trucks
- Gas turbine control systems
- Horticultural water pumps
- Industrial clothes ironing machines
- Industrial electric furnaces
- Industrial inverter motor drives
- Luminaires
- Oil fiscal metering systems
- Oil well control systems
- Oil well drill head drives
- Operational and training simulators
- Paint spraying equipment
- Professional computer variants
- Rail vehicles and infrastructure
- Satellite antenna masthead amplifiers
- Timer relays
- Trams and infrastructure
- Tunnel boring machines
A cake was cut by Ian Gillham, Donibristle Laboratory Manager and Competent Body
Signatory, to mark the occasion.
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