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Course Name: Seminar on major EMC International Standards Activity: The World of EMC Standards and its Impact
Time & Date: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Friday, May 21
Location: Holiday Inn Select Hotel, 15 Middlesex Canal Park Rd, Woburn, MA
Speaker: Donald Heirman, President, Don HEIRMAN Consultants

Overview:

The international activity in EMC test, measurement and product compliance standardization is essentially endless as more than 25 countries participate in such major standards organization as the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). In particular a major technical committee in the IEC is the International Special Committee or Radio Interference (CISPR). The IEC has inputs from national committee members that also are members of their own regional EMC standards organizations. Notable ones are the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC), the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), the IEEE EMC Society, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) accredited standards committee C63® , and even the military via its MIL STD 461.

Most of these voluntary standards end up being transferred into regional standards which in turn are cited in regulations as those that shall be used or if used presume to show compliance. An example of different ways of “converting” the voluntary standards into a regional regulatory structure is when the US Federal Communications Commission references in their Rules an ANSI standard such as the omnipresent ANSI C63.4 on product emission testing. Another example of another method is for a voluntary standard to be converted into a regional standard such as a EuroNorm in the European Union and then that standard if met presumes that the product meets the EMC directive. In this latter case, the regulation does not reference explicitly a standard as does the situation with the FCC.

The issue is how to keep pace with all that is changing in the EMC standards world, when they are to take effect in a regulatory scheme, and then how will the requirements affect products that have to pass tests which derive from these standards. Even more important is how to perhaps affect the standards in the development cycle so as not to be onerous.

This seminar will address how these standards are developed, who and what countries are involved, what is the process for approval, how are these standards placed into regulations, what are the “pitfalls” in fully understanding the standard and finally how these standards are applied by test labs to show product EMC compliance. The impact of changes in the compliance testing on products will be pointed out where they occur. On the test laboratory side of the equation, the seminar will discuss test lab competency and typical non-conformities found in being assessed by an accrediting body to ISO/IEC 17025 on the subject.

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Outline:

8:00 - 8:30 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 to 9:45 am

Introduction to the world of EMC standards Emissions, Radiated

Describe ANSI C63® and its role and purpose

Describe the IEEE EMC Society standards role and purpose

Describe the IEC CISPR role and purpose

Compare ITE limits for FCC and CISPR Pub 22 below 1 GHz

9:45 am

Break

10:15 am

Emissions details, Radiated

Above 1 GHz activity in CISPR and ANSI ASC C63®

C63.4 site validation and measurement method ANSI C63.4

CISPR site validation and measurement method CISPR 16-1-4

Items that will affect site validation

Conducted

FCC approach for ITE C63.4/CISPR 22

CISPR telecom port limits and measurement methods Power line telecom (PLT) activity

EMC measurement uncertainty, CISPR 16-4 -2 and C63.23 approaches CIASPR 16-4-2 and draft C63.23

11:45 am – 1 PM

Lunch

1:00 to 2:45 PM

Immunity overview

Numbering parallels between IEC, CISPR and CENELEC standards

Note the change and provide an example of an EU common modification EU EMC Directive essential requirements - Discuss Directive

Basic standards Review what each are about and what they are meant to test for—and latest amendments

IEC 61000-4-1 (General)

61000-4-2 ESD

61000-4-3 radiated

61000-4-4 Fast transients and bursts

61000-4-5 Surge (lightning)

61000-4-6 Conducted

61000-4-8 Magnetic

61000-4-11 voltage dips

2:45 PM

Break

3:15 – 4:30 PM

Immunity continued TC77B program

As time permits review their plans for updating these immunity standards

Finish above review of immunity standards if not completed before the break

Introduction to IEC/ISO 17025 on test lab competency

Select topics that relate to knowledge of standards

Review examples of test lab deficiencies

Role of various standards organizations in developing standards and the attendees

Indicate that there are opportunities for attendees to join in this effort

IEEE                           Special testing applications

ANSI ASC C63®          National voluntary standards

IEC                             International voluntary standards

CISPR                         International voluntary standards

Do you want to join in the “fun” of working on developing standards?

4:30-5:00 PM

Closing Discussion

Audience fills out seminar survey

Speaker’s background and Expertise:

Donald Heirman is president of Don HEIRMAN Consultants, training, standards, and educational electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) consultation corporation. Previously he was with Bell Laboratories for over 30 years in many EMC roles including Manager of Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs) Global Product Compliance Laboratory, which he founded, and where he was in charge of the Corporation’s major EMC and regulatory test facility and its participation in ANSI accredited standards and international EMC standardization committees. He chairs, or is a principal contributor to, US and international EMC standards organizations including ANSI ASC C63® (chairman) and the International Electrotechnical Commission’s (IEC) Special International Committee on Radio Interference (CISPR) where in October 2007 he was named the chair of CISPR moving from he previous role as its subcommittee A chairman responsible for CISPR Publication 16. He is a member of the IEC’s Advisory Committee on EMC (ACEC) and the Technical Management Committee of the US National Committee of the IEC. In November 2008 he was presented with the prestigious IEC Lord Kelvin award at the IEC General Meeting in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This is the highest award in the IEC and recognizes Don’s many contributions to global electrotechnical standardization in the field of EMC.

He is a life Fellow of the IEEE and a life member of the IEEE EMC Society (EMCS) and member of its Board of Directors, chair of its technical committee on EMC measurements, past EMCS president and vice president for standards, and past chair of its standards development committee. He is also past president of the National Cooperation for Laboratory Accreditation (NACLA). He is also past president of the IEEE Standards Association (SA), past member of the SA Board of Governors and past member of the IEEE’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He is also the Associate Director for Wireless EMC at the University of Oklahoma Center for the Study of Wireless EMC. He has presented numerous workshops, tutorials, and technical papers internationally and is listed in several Who’s Who publications. He is a retired Commander in the US Navy.

Material with Course Copies of PPT slides

Notes, coffee breaks and lunch included with registration

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is Thursday, May 13, 2010

FEES

Payment received by May 10: IEEE Members $285

Payment received by May 10: Non-members $310

Payment received after May 10: IEEE Members $310

Payment received after May 10: Non-members $345

On-line registration to this course is closed. You may register from 8:00AM - 8:30AM, Friday, May 21, 2010 at the Holiday Inn Select, 15 Middlesex Canal Park Road, Woburn, MA or by calling the IEEE Boston Section office at 781-245-5405.