Regular contributor to Interference Technology, Mike Violette of Washington Labs, recently joined a NIST-hosted US delegation on a three–day Standards in Trade workshop to Vietnam.

The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) recently released IEC/TS 61000-5-8:2009 which provides guidance on how to protect the distributed infrastructure (power, telecommunications, transportation and pipeline »

The document, DIN EN 12016:2009, specifies the immunity levels and test conditions for lifts, escalators and passenger conveyors in relation to continuous and transient, conducted and radiated disturbances including »

Replacing the first edition published in 1993 and its Amendment 1 published in 2000, the IEC recently released a revised version standard, IEC 61000-4-8:2009. This Electromagnetic Compatibility standard relates to »

The new IEC 62577:2009 applies to a single stand-alone broadcast transmitter operating in the frequency range 30 MHz to 40 GHz when put on the market.

The IEC has released an updated version of IEC 61000-4-14. This new edition 1.2 applies to electrical and/or electronic equipment that have a rated input current up to 16 A per phase and aims to establish a reference for »

The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has released IEC 62154-4-11 and IEC 62153-4-12 which detail test methods for metallic communication cables.

On July 30, 2009, the IEC released IEC 61000-4-13 Consol. Ed. 1.1 (incl. am1).  This bilingual EMC standard covers testing and measurement techniques for harmonics and interharmonics.

On July 30, 2009, the IEC released IEC 61000-4-16-am2 Ed. 1.0.  This bilingual document is the second amendment of the EMC standard for the testing and measurement techniques for immunity to conducted, common mode »

The European Commission has released a new “Quickguide” regarding the Directive 2004/108/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15th of December 2004 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States »