Highlights from the AutoEMC Newsletter No.21: March-April 2008

April 18th, 2008

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Automotive and EMC Conferences

Tech Tour: EMC and Automotive Testing
On 24 April at the Regency Inn & Conference Centre, Westford, MA, USA.

SE Michigan EMC Society: EMC Fest ‘2008
Practical EMC Measurements on 8 May 2008 at 46000 Summit Parkway , Canton , Michigan 48188 featuring industry renowned speaker Douglas C. Smith.

ASIA-Pacific EMC Week and Technical Exhibition
Being held in Singapore between 19th and 23rd May 2008.

Standards

Complying with the EMC Directive
Although a new release of any directive is followed by a spate of articles on it, the latest EU EMC directive seemed to enter the world relatively unheralded (or maybe we were just sleeping that day). This article by Keith Armstrong in Conformity magazine is a good catch-up with any changes.

ISO 10605: Still No Change
Despite being due for issuing last November, this Automotive ESD standard has still not been updated. Wondering what might be coming? We have managed to put on-line the paper that was presented at last years AutoEMC 2007 conference on the topic to give a heads-up as to what you might expect. The paper is somewhat critical of some proposed changes, but the author did not at the time of writing the paper expect the standard FDIS to be modified, however, maybe they have taken on-board some of the criticisms and it will be a better standard for it?

Current ISO version in FDIS but not yet available to buy

EMC Test

Lufthansa Build Own EMC Test Facility
This article from Interference Technology got us thinking, “What makes a company build their own EMC test facility?”. As you can probably imagine, an Aerospace EMC test laboratory is not a low cost option for an airline company. You might expect this from Boeing or Airbus but Lufthansa? Surely there is plenty of EMC test service providers in Europe, and especially in Germany, so why are Lufthansa investing €10M and building their own facility? We speculate on why a company might decide to build or buy EMC services.

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