Test lab, SIEMIC, reports that in January 2016, Industry Canada (IC) published the new 6th edition of IC Interference-Causing Equipment Standard ICES-003, Issue 3, with the helpful title “Information Technology Equipment (Including Digital Apparatus) – Limits and Methods of Measurement”. This ICES standard is the primary document that defines the test methods and frequency … [Read more...]
Standards
IEC Revises Common Terminology for Information Security Management
All information held and processed by an organization is subject to the risks of attack, error and natural disaster, and other vulnerabilities inherent to its use. Information security is considered a valuable “asset” requiring appropriate protection, for example, against the loss of availability, confidentiality and integrity. The recently revised ISO/IEC … [Read more...]
Testing Laboratories In New Agreement
In a collaborative move that provides collective services, Nemko and Retlif Testing Laboratories, have partnered together. Customers of both organizations will benefit through worldwide acceptance of test data and reports. Retlif offers EMC/EMI, Lightning and Environmental testing services as well as engineering and compliance program management at locations in Ronkonkoma New … [Read more...]
Regulatory Update
MultiPoint is Rhein Tech Lab's monthly electronic newsletter devoted to providing national and international regulatory updates to manufacturers, test labs, design engineers and other interested parties in the EMC testing and compliance industry. They have answered typical questions and answers that represent technical opinions for FCC, IC and CE requirements. Their latest … [Read more...]
The Wearable Future
The IEC has released a blog article, The Wearable Future, that explains the trend of smart wearable devices, the potential market, and how they are monitoring the technology and applying appropriate EMC and safety standards. Several new interesting wearable devices are described that were announced at the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last … [Read more...]
How To Achieve FCC Compliance in Six Steps
MET Labs explains how to achieve FCC compliance in six steps in their recent blog posting. They first explain about the need for EMC compliance and the various routes to compliance in the U.S. - verification, declaration of conformity, and certification. The six steps are outlined below: • Step 1 - select radio frequency and design equipment • Step 2 - test during … [Read more...]
Has The EMC Directive Achieved What It Set Out To Do?
NewElectronics (UK) has written a white paper on the EMC Directive - its history, the new legislative framework and how it affected the Directive, how well it’s being enforced, and market surveillance. The EMC Directive is all about electrical interference – both emissions and immunity. As test house TUV puts it ‘Do not disturb. Do not be disturbed’. When enacted in 1989, the … [Read more...]
EMC Directive 2014/30/EU Becomes Mandatory April 2016
Elite Electronic Engineering highlights some of the changes between the current EMC Directive 2004/30/EC and the new EMC Directive 2014/30/EU in a white paper published October 14, 2014. It’s time for manufacturers, importers, and distributors to adapt their CE Marking conformity assessment processes to the new directive by April 2016. The new directive will be required for … [Read more...]
CISPR provides "Guide to EMC in Smart Grid"
CISPR has prepared a "Guide to EMC in Smart Grid”, which gives insight into issues which should be taken into consideration when designing and developing equipment for connection and inter-operation with the Smart Grid. SmartGrid systems must be immune to sources of interference from a wide array of wanted RF signals and RF disturbances and other events which occur … [Read more...]
A2LA and ANSI Recognized by NIST to Accredit Notified Bodies
A2LA and ANSI (American National Standards Institute) have been formally recognized by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as an Accreditation Body offering Notified Body (NB) accreditation under ISO/IEC 17020:2012, ISO/IEC 17025:2005, and ISO/IEC 17065:2012. Currently, A2LA is the only accreditation body recognized by NIST to offer accreditation to all … [Read more...]
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