Risk Assessment | EMC Productivity

Quantify the risk of failure to prevent budget overruns and delays.

Laboratory time is expensive and waiting for an opening to repeat a test from the back of the line often jeopardizes program timing. Since we can predict the EMC performance of circuits and systems, we can predict the likelihood of passing or failing the test. We use a six point scale: Likely to Pass, Might Pass, Don’t know, Might Fail, Likely to Fail, and Don’t Bother to Build It.

Our risk assessments have also proven useful as a gateway to proceed to the next step in the development process. Often our customers require their new circuits, PCB Layout, and products designs to achieve an EMC Risk Assessment score of 3 or less in order to proceed.

To perform a risk assessment we typically need a Bill of Material (BOM), schematic, PCB information and sometimes data on specific components. We do not need to understand a lot about how the device works. We do need to know the frequencies and edge rate of all repetitive signals. The result is a number, 1 through 6, representing the assessment scale shown below.

Risk Assessment Scale

Likely to pass,
Might pass,
Don’t know,
Might fail,
Likely to fail, or
Don’t bother to build it.

Each risk assessment is as different as people are different. Please contact us to chat about your situation so that appropriate actions can be taken.