All, There will be a Northeast Product Safety Society / CNEC Product Safety Engineering Society meeting tomorrow, October 24th, at The Holiday Inn, Boxborough MA. A social hour with light refreshments will begin at 7:00 PM and the technical meeting will start at 7:30 PM. Paul Silva, Functional Safety Engineer at TUV Rheinland of NA, will present this month’s topic concerning IEC 61508 and product functional safety. If you will be in the area, please feel free to join us as advanced notice or membership in NPSS or IEEE PSES is not required.
Paul’s presentation will provide an overview of Functional Safety as per IEC 61508, how it relates to other standards and different industries. The presentation will cover: • Definition IEC 61508 • Main aspects of IEC 61508 • Functional Safety Management • Hardware Analysis • Software Analysis • Q&A Paul is currently a functional safety engineer with TUV Rheinland of North America. Paul has over 5 years of experience in industrial and functional safety including three years as the product safety agent for the design group he worked for. He has more than 10 years experience as an electrical engineer designing telecommunication and industrial process machinery. Prior to TUV, Paul was a hardware design engineer with Invensys Process Systems, Cognex Corporation, and General Dynamics. He holds Masters and Bachelors degrees in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University. Our meeting notices are usually listed in the IEEE NH Section web site under the latest newsletter topic. Future NPSS meeting notices as well as other IEEE NH Section information is available at http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r1/new_hampshire/. 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 2007 NPSS meeting schedule is available on the NPSS website at http://www.nepss.org/meetings/NPSS_2006-7_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. If you haven’t updated your contact and email address information this year, please update it at http://www.nepss.org/membership/profileupdate.html. Directions: >From Route 495 North or South, take Exit 28 to Route 111 East Turn right onto Adams Place (approximately 500 feet from Route 495 North) The Holiday Inn is the last building on the left. Regards, 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/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 ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned by MCI Managed Email Content Service, using Skeptic(tm) technology powered by MessageLabs. For more information on MCI's Managed Email Content Service, visit http://www.mci.com. ______________________________________________________________________
