The Northeast Product Safety Society, Inc. 2 Milliston Rd. Suite 2GN, Millis, MA 02054 U.S.A.
The Northeast Product Safety Society, Inc. meets on the fourth Wednesday of each month (except for July, August and December) and the third Wednesday in November. Unless otherwise noted (See June and November dates), meetings are held at EMC Corporation's Customer Briefing Center at 42 South St., Hopkinton MA at 7 p.m. NPSS, Inc. was incorporated as a non-profit organization (501(c)3) in 1991, after approximately 3 years of informal activities. Directions: On I-495 take exit 21B, turning right and make a left onto South St. at the first traffic light. Take your second right into EMC's parking lot. The meeting starts at 7:30 p.m. The group usually gathers at 7 for light refreshments (thanks to EMC Corporation) and networking. Pre-meeting social and dinner: Socializing at O'Tooles Pub-North Pond House from 5:00 to 6:45 PM, where food and drink may be purchased. O'Tooles is on South Street, on the right, a bit past the meeting site, noted above. You will often find us in the dining room (to the rear of the building). Park in back of the restaurant and enter thru the back door. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- AdCom Meeting: April 28th, Hopkinton MA, 5:30 p.m. (Dynasty Chinese Rest.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1999 Meeting Schedule: January 27th, 1999 Speakers: Mr. Jim Linehan, Operations Mgr, ITS Mr. Chuck Kolifrath, Dir. Of Quality, Conformity Americas Div., ITS Subject: The CB Scheme - An Update February 24th, 1999 Subject: Current Status of the EN 61000-3-2 & 3 Harmonics and Flicker Requirements Speaker: Mr. Tom Mahr, Gen. Mgr. Voltech Inst's Morrisville NC March 24th, 1999 Subject: Surge Standards for UPS and Surpressors in Accordance with UL-1449 (Tentative) Speaker: Mr. Ron Bell, Engineer, American Power Conversion Corp. April 28th, 1999 Subject: EN 60950, Clause 6 - Telecom Additions; Definitions & Limits of TNV circuits Separation requirements for TNV circuits Accessibility & Battery Compartments Protection of Telecom Network Personnel TNV Leakage Current Tests Protection from network overvoltage Australian National Deviations Speaker: Mr. Dan Clarkson, Compliance Engineer, BABT Product Service May 26th, 1999 Subject: Sheparding Proposals thru the NEC/NFPA; Methods employed to successfully change the status-quo within a highly structured and necessarily bureaucratic process. The lessons learned are directly applic- able to any effort to change any Code or Standard that employs ANSI's "consensus code" revision process. Speaker: Mr. Bill Keezer, Project Manager, Bose Corporation; At Bose since 1973 Bill is responsible for some of Bose's most cri- tically acclaimed product designs. He is a holder of 5 patents and active in a wide variety of national committees. June 23rd, 1999 Subject: ANNUAL RECRUITMENT DINNER Holiday Inn, Marlborough MA Speaker: Mr. Bill von Alven, (FCC, retired) July - No Meeting August - No Meeting September 22nd, 1999 Subject: Joint Meeting with IEEE EMC Society Subject To Be Announced Speaker: October 27th, 1999 Subject: Speaker: November 17th, 1999 Subject: 5th Annual Vendors' Night, Holiday Inn, Marlborough MA December - No Meeting - Happy Holidays !!! Messages, Questions & Comments can be sent to <n...@safetylink.com> --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to majord...@ieee.org with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, jim_bac...@monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators).