EMC Standards Activities

DON HEIRMAN ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Lots Happening in Standards

by

Don Heirman,
Vice President for Standards and Chairman of Standards Committee

New IEEE Standards Association

Starting this year, the IEEE standards activity has been reorganized into a new organization within the IEEE called the Standards Association (SA). This Association has two main entities:  The Board of Governors and the Standards Board supported by the IEEE Standards Association staff in Piscataway, NJ.

The Standards Board, comprised of 26 members from the various standards writing bodies as well as other standards developing organizations, remains intact as it was before to facilitate and approve all new, revised, reaffirmed, and withdrawn standards by the over dozen active standards-writing IEEE Societies including our own Electromagnetic Compatibility standards operation.  Our EMCS standards operation has also been reorganized in part to support the SA. We will discuss this later in this article.

The SA Board of Governors with its 12 members serves as the policymaking, finance,  and business strategy body for the SA.  The SA has as its goals the support of such industry focused standards activities as those now offered by trade organizations and consortia.  Hence, there will be corporate membership including voting privileges as well as the traditional IEEE individual member contributions.

To facilitate the individual as well as corporate contribution, there is now a matrix of dues necessary to achieve the goals of the SA.   For any IEEE member as well as Associate member to become a member of  the SA, the annual dues are $10.  This allows a member, for example, to be on standards balloting groups and vote as well as take part in special SA membership offerings.  The EMC Society standards committee is now fully comprised of members who have paid their SA dues and are hence fully qualified to be on our balloting groups.  It is interesting to note that if you were not an IEEE member, the annual fee rises to $125 per annum.  For corporate membership, the annual dues start at $1000 per annum (for corporations with less than $1M in Total Annual Revenue to $5000 for corporations with over a billion dollars total annual revenue).

For more information on the Standards Association, visit their website at: https://standards.ieee.org/sa/index.html or email to ieee.sa.exec@ieee.org

Finally, your EMCS Vice President for Standards—Don Heirman—was elected for the year 1998 as the Vice-chair of the Standards Board.  With his participation on the SA Standards Board Review Committee (which oversees the standards approval process and reviews all standards before recommending approval to the Standards Board) and this new role, the EMC Society is  well-represented in this important part of the Institute.

EMCS Vice President for Standards

At the November 1997 EMCS Board of Directors meeting in Atlanta, a new position was filled by election—Vice President for Standards. Don Heirman was elected to fill that new position. In the past five months, considerable work has been undertaken by the EMCS Board as well as the VP for Standards to restructure not only the new position, but to reorganize the other vice-presidential areas (formerly called Technical Directors).

The result at this juncture is that the VP for Standards has two committees:

EMCS Standards Advisory Committee (SAC) which is made up of those representatives from the EMCS Representative Advisory Committee (RAC) as follows:

1.  Special International Committee on Radio Interference (CISPR)

i.  Subcommittee A:  Radio Interference Measurements and Statistical Methods (Publication 16)

ii.  Subcommittee B:  Interference Relating to Industrial, Scientific and Medical Radio-frequency Apparatus (Publication 11)

iii.  Subcommittee  E:  Interference Relating to Radio Receivers (Publications 13 (emission) and 20 (immunity)

iv.  Subcommittee G:  Interference Relating to Information Technology Equipment (Publications 22 (emissions) and 24 (immunity)

2.  ANSI Accredited Standards Committee C63 (EMC)

3.  SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) EMI and EMR Committees

4.  SAE AE-4 (EMC)

5.  ESD Association

6. EIA (Electronics Industry Alliance) G-46 and its EIA/CEMA (Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association) R1/R2 Commercial EMC/Safety Committee

7.  RTCA (Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics)

8. ASTM (American Society for Testing Material) D09.12.14 (Electromagnetic Shielding) Committee and E06.53 Committee

9.  ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) TC ERM (EMC) Committee

10.  IEEE Metric Policy Committee

The final structure and scope for the SAC is being handled by Joe Butler who will be serving as interim chair of the SAC until a replacement can be found.  Joe can be reached on jbemc@aol.com.

EMCS Standards Committee (SCOM) (unchanged from before the restructuring)

The EMC Society Standards Committee continues to be one of the most active committees in the Society meeting up to four times each year including its major meeting at the annual symposium.  1997 and the first quarter of 1998 have been very active times for your Standards Committee.

In particular, the following list shows the status of our projects as of 1 May 1998:

STD / DATE / TITLE / STATUS

STD 139-1988  IEEE Recommended Practice for the Measurement of Radio Frequency Emission from Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) Equipment Installed on the Users Premises — Reaffirmed 1993

STD 140-1990  IEEE Recommended Practice for the Minimization of Interference from Radio Frequency Heating Equipment (ISBN 1-55937-043-2) — Reaffirmed 1995

STD 187-1990  IEEE Standard on Radio Receivers: Open Field Method of Measurement of Spurious Radiation from FM and Television Broadcast Receivers (ISBN 1-55937-062-9) — Reaffirmed 1995

STD 213-1987  IEEE Standard Procedure for Measuring Conducted Emissions in the Range of 300 kHz to 25 MHz from Television and Next Reaffirmation FM Broadcast Receivers to Power Lines (ANSI recognized) being processed — Reaffirmed 1993

STD 299-1998  IEEE Standard Method of Measuring the Effectiveness of Electromagnetic Shielding Enclosures (ANSI recognized) (ISBN 55937-108-0) — Published in March

STD 376-1975  IEEE Standard for the Measurement of Impulse Bandwidth (ANSI recognized) — Reaffirmed 1993 Next reaffirmation being processed.

STD 377-1980 IEEE Recommended Practice for Communication Transmitters (ANSI recognized) — Reaffirmed 1997

STD 473-1985  IEEE Practice for an Electromagnetic Site Survey (10 kHz to 10 GHz) (ANSI recognized) — Reaffirmed 1997

STD 475-1983   (Reaff 1994)  IEEE Measurement Procedure for Field Disturbance Sensor (rf Intrusion Alarm) (ANSI Recognized) — Revision due in 1998

PAR 482  Cable and Connector Shielding Characterization — CANCELLED (See PAR 1530 below)

STD 1128-1998 IEEE Recommended Practice for RF Absorber Evaluation in the Range of 30 MHz to 5 GHz — Published in March

STD 1140-1994  Standard Procedures for the Measurement of Electric and Magnetic Fields from Video Display Terminals (VDTs) from 5 Hz to 400 kHz — Reaffirmation in 1999

STD 1302   Guide for the Electromagnetic Characterization of Conductive Gaskets in the Frequency Range of DC to 18 GHz — Copyright release of figure being resolved; Expected to be published by June 1998

STD 1309-1996  IEEE Standard Method for the Calibration of Electromagnetic Field Sensors and Field Probes, Excluding Antennas, from 9 kHz to 40 GHz — Errata to be published by mid year.

PAR 1530 Recommended Practice for the Design and Construction of Calibration Artifacts for Cable and Connector Shielding Test Fixtures for Frequencies from 1 Hz to 10 GHz — PAR approved in March

We would like to thank Dale Sventanoff from Lindgren RF Enclosures, Dr.Jose Perini (retired) and Hugh Denny (retired) for their chairing and making happen Standards 299, 1128, and 1302, respectively.  They will receive a much deserved certificate of appreciation at our Denver symposium awards banquet.

Finally, there is a particular IEEE Standards Collection on Electromagnetic Compatibility—1996.  This collection was compiled by Ed Bronaugh and Don Heirman of the EMCS Standards Committee.  It is published by the IEEE Standards Office and contains 32 EMC-related standards including most of the above standards (the remaining non-included EMCS standards will be included in the 1999 edition of the Collection) as well as those EMC-related standards from ANSI ASC C63, Antenna and Propagation Society, Industrial Applications Society, Communications Society, and Power Engineering Society.

For ordering information for this “must have” collection, email to:
customer.service@ieee.org
and ask for document SHSH94329-NZU at the IEEE member price of  $250.00.

Finally, in the future we plan to highlight various standards activity as well as the SAC activity in the Newsletter.  Stay tuned for the latest.  If you are interested in joining a working group (all of the above standards and committees are in need of volunteers to maintain and write their product), email to Don Heirman on d.heirman@worldnet.att.net.  He will see to it that the appropriate working group chair for the standards operation or the representative for the SAC gets your name to further your contact and participation.

Don Heirman
VP for Standards and
Chairman of the Standards Committee

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