September News
In this issue:
MIL-STD Seminar
MET Santa Clara
NEBS/Global Regulatory
Ottawa, Canada
Fastest Scans in the West
HALT/HASS adds Value
Global Product Safety
Industry News
MIL-STD Seminar at MET Labs, Santa Clara
| MET Laboratories will hold a Military Seminar on October 1st at their testing facility in Santa Clara, CA. This free, half day seminar will be conducted by MET’s lead EMC Military Engineers, Asad Bajwa and Edmund Aryee. Topics will include EMC design in accordance with MIL-STD- 461E and preparing for environmental simulation testing to MIL-STD-810. Agenda: Please contact Prizma Esquivel at 510.214.4443 for further information or register online. Please RSVP by September 26th. |
Annual NEBS / Global Regulatory Requirements Seminar in Canada
MET Laboratories, in conjunction with Nemko Canada, will be holding a free seminar on October 22nd in Ottawa. The day long seminar will cover NEBS certification and a review of the most recent changes in Telcordia, Verizon and AT&T requirements. Presentations by MET will cover the NEBS standards and the design concepts necessary to meet the requirements. Nemko will discuss, in detail, regulatory design and testing for the global market.
Agenda:
The seminar will be held at the Holiday Inn Express Ottawa West,
101 Kanata Ave., Ottawa-Kanata, ON K2T 1E6.
Please contact Christy Yeager at 410.949.1883 for further information or register online.
Please RSVP by October 15th.
Fastest Scans in the West
MET Laboratories is proud to offer the fastest radiated emissions compliance scanning at their newest US facility, in Santa Clara, California. You can perform more testing in less time at MET Labs, than at any other lab in the West.
MET Laboratories' new test method, based on the “Dual Antennae Technique”, can simultaneously pre-scan 30MHz - 1GHz and 1GHz to 18 GHz for radiated emissions compliance in less than 20 minutes. While this is in progress, conducted emissions testing can also take place. Additionally, MET can provide the advantage of automated testing up to 40GHz.
The Santa Clara EMC facility, completed in January of 2008, has 18,000 square feet of temperature controlled test space including, a brand new, full-height, fully anechoic 10 meter chamber, a new 5 meter chamber, full immunity capabilities and state of the art wireless testing capabilities. The 10 meter chamber is fully automated for radiated emission 10K-18GHz and conducted emission 10K-30MHz.
To learn more about MET's EMC testing and certification services, visit www.metlabs.com/pages/emc.htmlHALT/ HASS Testing
Highly Accelerated Life Testing (HALT) and Highly Accelerated Stress Screening (HASS) are now being performed at MET's Santa Clara, California laboratory. Both of these testing processes use rapid temperature transition and random vibration to ensure a product will not fail under any condition in the field. These testing processes attempt to induce failures employing extreme conditions, therefore reducing development time and cost in the future. This process is the closest simulation to a real-world environment possible in the industry. Manufacturers can be assured after the HALT and HASS testing that their product has the same reliability throughout its product life cycle.
The testing takes, on average, between 2-5 days. The chamber, the new Qualmark Typhoon 2.5, features a 4th generation advanced vibration system that ranges in energy from 10Hz to above 5,000Hz. The chamber also has impressive thermal performance and consumes, on average, 30% to 60% of the utilities of other competitive models.
In addition to HALT and HASS testing, MET’s environmental simulation testing lab has the ability to perform various shaker testing, including, Earthquake, Sine Vibration, Sine on Random Vibration, Random on Random Vibration and Shock (half-sine, saw-tooth, SRS/Transient). To learn more about any of these testing capabilities or to request a tour of one of our facilities, contact info@METLabs.com.
MET’s Product Safety testing and certification program has reached a new level. At the newest facility in Shenzhen, China, testing and certification has been completed on products that are now on the shelves of Wal-Mart and Best Buy.
In addition to product safety, MET Asia also provides witness testing, NEBS consultation and TCB services. For more information on our Shenzhen, China office please visit http://www.metlabs.com/pages/international.html or email METasia@metlabs.com.
Industry News
International EMC/Telecom Changes
The Korean EMC/Telecom authority has changed its name from Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) to Korea Communications Commission (KCC). The following standards have been renamed due to this change:
· KCC No. 2008-39: Technical Requirements for EMI
· RRL No. 2008-3: Conformity Assessment Procedures for EMI
· KCC No. 2008-38: Technical Requirements for EMS
· RRL No. 2008-4: Conformity Assessment Procedures for EMS
Effective November 1, 2008 all products manufactured will bear the new KCC mark. Until then, products may still bear the existing MIC mark.
Meet With Us at the Verizon NEBS Conference
Visit us at Table 3 at the Verizon NEBS conference in Orlando, FL. The conference is being held at the Renaissance Orlando Resort at Seaworld, October 8th - 10th.
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