All, Note: The NPSS/PSES and the EMCS New England chapters will be conducting a trial remote attendance to this month’s meeting using Microsoft Live Meeting. Although the Live Meeting notice is much too short this time, if you can arrange a remote meeting location for yourself and your associates, you can join us for this month’s meeting. Information about Live Meeting and how to obtain a free 14 day trial license is available through the Microsoft Live Meeting page at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010909711033.aspx. If you would like to participate, please contact John Freudenberg direct at [email protected]. As the hard limit for our Live Meeting is 14 nodes, only those that RSVP by email to John will be sent the final meeting invitation with URL's and access codes.
There will be a sequential joint Northeast Product Safety Society and IEEE EMC Society meeting tonight, Wednesday, June 22nd, at EMC Corporation's Conference Room 1-2 (Building A, 1st floor) at 228 South Street in Hopkinton, MA. A social hour with light refreshments will begin at 6:00 PM and the technical meeting will start at 6:30 PM. Dr. David P. Johns, VP of Flomerics, will be presenting an EMC related topic concerning early recognition of EMC design problems with examples of electromagnetic simulation applied to real-world EMC design problem. Ms. Anne Doherty Johnson, Executive Director of AeA, will be presenting a Product Safety related topic concerning the impact on technology producers to implement European WEEE and RoHS compliance. If you will be in the area, please feel free to join us as NPSS membership or advanced notice is not required. In the past, EMC/EMI design has been far from an exact science. EMC Engineers have not been able to say, "Do it like this and it will work". Instead, by drawing on past experience and applying general design guidelines, Engineers have said, "Do it like this and it may work", or, "This is more likely to work, but at a higher cost". To make matters worse, EMC design is a constantly moving target. The electromagnetic environment is flooding, due to the proliferation of wireless communications devices. Electronics products are emitting higher frequencies due to faster switching and circuits are becoming more sensitive to interference. Design techniques that worked in the past may not work in the future. Considerable guesswork is involved. There is a growing desire for EMC Engineers to identify problems earlier in design, to be more definite and accurate in their recommendations and to minimize the test, fix, re-test cycle, enabling products to pass compliance and enter the market quicker. Electromagnetic simulation tools have matured considerably over the last 5 years and offer tremendous opportunity for EMC Engineers to work more effectively and with greater confidence. This talk will provide examples of electromagnetic simulation applied to real-world EMC design problems, emphasizing the value that simulation offers over and above general design rules. Dr. David Johns is the VP of Electromagnetic Engineering at Flomerics, Inc. He received his Ph.D. from Nottingham University UK in 1996, specializing in the development of 3D Transmission-Line Matrix (TLM) tools for analysis of EMC problems. At Flomerics, he is responsible for technical application and support of the FLO/EMC simulation tool. He has extensive experience in applying electromagnetic analysis to diagnosing and solving EMC/EMI design problems. Ms. Anne Doherty Johnson, Executive Director for AeA's New England Region will update the group AeA's efforts to help technology companies prepare for these product stewardship changes. AeA has continued to advance a major education initiative on this topic over the last two and half years. This effort has focused on helping companies better understand what steps need to be taken to be prepared for these regulations, both internally and with suppliers and partners. She will also speak a bit about AeA's role in the technology industry. Impending implementation of European Union Waste Directives, namely WEEE and RoHS, coming into effect in 2005 and 2006, will have a major impact on technology producers and require additional regulatory compliance measures and potentially product design changes. In addition to EU's environmental policy changes, various U.S. states have filed measures that include chemical bans or would require design changes. AeA is tracking these regulations and proposed US legislation. Ms. Anne Doherty Johnson serves as Executive Director, New England Council, for the American Electronics Association (AeA), the nation’s oldest and largest high tech trade association. In that role, she manages AeA’s local office with a focus on educating members about key public policy issues that impact their business, and fostering relationships among AeA’s 2500 member companies nationwide. These member companies span the high tech spectrum, from software to computers, telecom to medical devices, semiconductors to aerospace and defense. Recognized as the voice of the high tech industry, the association is headquartered in Washington DC and has offices in Beijing and Brussels, in addition to 18 offices in key high tech hubs around the country. If you or anyone you know would like to give a product safety technical presentation, please contact Paul Smith, our meeting scheduler, by email at [email protected]. A technical presentation should be 45 to 60 minutes in duration and be related to product safety. Although the presentation may reference your company and it’s services, the presentation must not be simply company advertising. We would also appreciate any slides or handout materials be made available for posting on the NPSS web site. Releasing presentation materials for posting is desired but not a requirement to make a presentation. The 2005 NPSS meeting schedule is available on the NPSS website at http://www.nepss.org/meetings/NPSS_2005_Calendar.html. Further information about the Northeast Product Safety Society and how to become a member is available at http://www.nepss.org. You can also contact one of the NPSS officers via links on the NPSS web site. Directions: >From Route 495 North or South take exit 21B to West Main Street. Counting the traffic light at the off ramp from Route 495 South as the first traffic light. At the second traffic light, turn left on to South Street (Note: This is on South direction side of Route 495). Proceed 1.6 miles on South Street, through the next two traffic lights. Turn right into the third driveway after the second light, marked with sign “228 South Street” Travel 0.2 miles to the end of the driveway and park in the lot. Check in at the Building A main entrance. Conference room 1-2 is to the left of the security front desk. Matt Campanella NPSS Secretary Compliance Engineer Motorola, Inc. Broadband Communications Sector 111 Locke Drive Marlborough, MA 01752 (508) 786-7629 Direct (508) 786-7500 Main (508) 480-6332 Fax [email protected] email This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. 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