All, There will be a sequential or joint Northeast Product Safety Society and EMC Society meeting tonight Wednesday, October 26, 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 7:00 PM. Our first speaker will be Douglas Smith, of D. C. Smith Consultants, presenting an EMC related topic concerning methods of locating impulsive events such as ESD in 3D space. Our second speaker will be Stanley Salot Jr., Business Development Director of NSAI in Fremont CA, presenting a product safety related topic concerning the EU WEEE and RoHS directives from the perspective of one of the world’s first WEEE registrars. If you will be in the area, please feel free to join us as advanced notice or membership in NPSS or IEEE EMCSS or PSES is not required.
Doug Smith is an independent consultant specializing in high frequency measurements, circuit/system design and verification, switching power supply noise and specifications, EMC, and immunity to transient noise. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a former member of the IEEE EMC Society Board of Directors and an IEEE EMC Society Distinguished Lecturer. He retired from AT&T Bell Laboratories a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and has been granted over 15 patents, several on measurement apparatus. He is author of the book High Frequency Measurements and Noise in Electronic Circuits. His very popular website, http://emcesd.com -- www.dsmith.org, draws many thousands of visitors each month to see over 60 technical articles as well as other features Doug’s presentation, “Locating Impulsive Events in 3D Space Using Time of Arrival Techniques”, concerns impulsive events, such as ESD, which can cause problems in the lab as well as the field ranging from noise glitches in measurements to outright equipment malfunction. This talk will present a procedure for finding such events using just an oscilloscope, a pair of coax cables, and two short wires. Using this technique, events that were causing problems have been pinpointed from over 50 feet away! Audience participation will be used for one of the experiments to make for a fun talk. Stanley Salot is Director of US Western Region Business Development for the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI, Inc.). As director he is responsible for the development and coordination of new and continuing business opportunities, in the ISO 9000, QS 9000, ISO 13485, ISO 14001 Standards and CE Marking for European shipped products. As a Lead Assessor, he developed, coordinated and participated in workshops, pre-assessments, registration assessments and surveillance inspections throughout the USA and Internationally. Stan has served as Chairman of the Users Advisory Group for the International Electronic Component Certification Board (ECCB). He is an active member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and co-founded the Santa Clara Valley Software Quality Association (SSQA). Stan’s presentation “IECQ HSPM Certification Is Your Route To Compliance!” will describe and define the QC 080000 HSPM standard and explain how it is applicable to demonstrating compliance to RoHS, WEEE, CA-SB 50, China Article 11 & 12 and others. This standard and its requirements are based on the belief that the achievement of Hazardous Substance Free (HSF) products and production processes cannot be realized without an effective integration of management disciplines. Further information on our speakers and their presentations will soon be available on the NPSS web site at http://www.nepss.org. 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. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
