ROBUST ELECTRONIC DESIGN
Executive Summary
This web site is being maintained by John R. Barnes, who was the President
and Chief Engineer of dBi Corporation from 2002 to September 30, 2013,
when we closed because ObamaCrap made it too expensive for us to remain in
business.
The goal of Robust Electronic Design is to put products into
production, profitably. This includes not only the initial
design/development and manufacturing of the products, but also supporting your
customers so that they will continue to buy and use your company's goods and
services.
Design/development is an iterative (looping) process:
Robust Electronic Design pushes as many as possible of these
trial-and-error cycles to the front end of the design/development process.
While a product is still pencil marks on paper, or bits in a computer's
memory, decisions can be:
- Made quickly and easily, without a lot of "emotional baggage".
- Tested and verified.
- Refined or changed completely, if necessary, without wasting a lot of
time and money.
By making this up-front investment in Robust
Electronic Design, a company can:
- Develop products,
- Get them approved,
- Put them into production,
AND
- Put them on the desired markets quickly and smoothly.
For an electronic product that your company will sell or lease to others,
Robust Electronic Design's focus is that the product:
- Works safely and reliably.
- Can be manufactured economically, for as long as desired.
- May be marketed and used worldwide.
- Can be easily adapted/upgraded to meet your customers' changing needs.
For electronic equipment that your company uses to develop/manufacture/test/
repair/calibrate/maintain your company's products and services, Robust
Electronic Design's focus is that the equipment:
- Works safely and reliably.
- Can be built and debugged quickly, then maintained for as long as it may
be needed.
- May be used wherever it is needed.
- Can be easily adapted to handle new/additional product requirements and
new products.
The principles of Robust Electronic Design have been applied and
refined over nearly three decades in the computer and electronics industries.
Sycor, IBM and
Lexmark have used these principles to
develop, and put into mass production, intelligent terminals, printers,
network adapters, and
Digital-Office products.
dBi Corporation was a
one-man test house (testing laboratory) based in Lexington, Kentucky, testing
a wide variety of commercial electronic products for electromagnetic
compatibility (EMC), electromagnetic interference (EMI), and electrostatic
discharge (ESD) under its ISO 17025 accreditation. dBi was founded in
Winchester, Kentucky in 1995 by Donald R. Bush, shortly after he retired from
30 years service with IBM Lexington's/ Lexmark's EMC Lab. John R. Barnes,
who'd worked with Don at IBM Lexington and Lexmark, bought dBi in 2002
after Don's death, and moved the company to Lexington, Kentucky. John closed
dBi at 11:59pm EDT on September 30, 2013, because ObamaCrap had
increased operating expenses to the point that we could no longer afford to
remain in business.
We'd like to thank all of the clients who chose dBi to test their
products from 1995 to 2013. Below is a brief summary of our accomplishments
during the 18 years we were in business.
From 1995 to 2001, under Don Bush's ownership and operation, dBi:
- Did the official approval testing of 141 products developed by 20
client companies.
- Did the official FCC/ Industry Canada (IC) Verification and Declaration
of Conformity (DoC) testing of 92 products.
- Did the official FCC/IC Certification testing of 15 products.
- Did the official CE Marking testing of 100 products.
From 2002 to 2013, under John Barnes' ownership and operation, dBi:
- Tested 389 products and 2 testers developed by 44 client companies.
- Did the official approval testing of 357 products and 2 testers, getting
all but 5 of them to meet all of the FCC, Industry Canada
(IC), CE Marking, C-Tick, and Regulatory Compliance Mark (RCM) standards
and requirements for their desired market areas.
- Did the official FCC/IC Verification and Declaration of Conformity (DoC)
testing of 296 products.
- Did the official FCC/IC Certification testing of 24 products.
- Did the official CE Marking testing of 271 products and 2 testers.
- Did the official e-Mark testing of 3 products.
- Did the official Australia/New Zealand Verification testing of 170
products.
- Co-sponsored John's writing the
Robust Electronic Design Reference Book,
Volumes I and II.
- Served as an expert witness on electronics in three lawsuits.
Last revised December 19, 2010.
