EMC for Fixed Installations Training Course

The new EMC Directive has special legal requirements for installations, and for custom-designed systems and equipment.

This new cost-effective one day course explains all in practical detail.

The 2nd edition of the EMC Directive, 2004/108/EC, specifies compliance requirements for 'Fixed Installations', including the appointment of a 'Responsible Person'. In the UK, this Directive is implemented by Statutory Instrument 2006 No. 3418, “The Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Regulations 2006”.

Fixed Installations include everything from residential electrical installations through hotels, hospitals, entertainment venues and factories to national infrastructure (e.g. electrical, telephone, road and railway networks), including all commercial and industrial sites.

From 1st July 2007, each Responsible Person must ensure their installation complies with the Directive’s 'Essential Requirements', record their site’s use of good EMC engineering practices, and keep these documents ready for inspection by the authorities.

Companies that manufacture bespoke systems or equipment for use in fixed installations do not have to CE mark for EMC, test or declare compliance with the EMC Directive - but from 1st July 2007 they must specify the electromagnetic environment of the site their products are for, and describe how to install them so they do not compromise the EMC compliance of the Fixed Installation.

As already happens with the Wiring Regulations, electrical contractors and installers will be expected to know what to do to comply, and will also be expected to provide customers with documentation showing the use of good EMC engineering practices.

This new one-day training course for Responsible Persons and Electrical Contractors/Installers explains all, and provides detailed practical guidance on the application of good EMC engineering practices.

Key subjects covered

*  1   The requirements of 2004/108/EC for Fixed Installations

• Background to 2004/108 and its Guide
• Apparatus
• Fixed Installations
• Good EMC Engineering Practices
• The “Responsible Person” for a fixed installation
• What a Responsible Person needs to know about EMC
• Modifications to fixed installations
• Large machines
• Mobile and moveable installations
• Equipment supplied only to specified fixed installations
• Systems
• Supply chain issues
• Some useful references

* 2   Discussion of particular cases

• An unscripted discussion for 30 minutes

* 3   CE + CE does not achieve compliance – what to do instead

• Why the ‘CE+CE’ approach cannot achieve EMC compliance
• Determining purchasing specifications for the EMC performance required
• Judging suppliers' evidence of EMC performance and EMC Instructions
• Some useful references

* 4   Good EMC practices in electrical installations

• Review of the overall EMC control procedure
• Good EMC engineering practices for simple installations
• Good EMC engineering practices for complex installations
• Routing send and return current paths together
• Creating an RF reference plane with mesh bonding
• Bonding in older buildings
• Zoning of apparatus and their supplies
• Using fibre-optics and other galvanic isolation methods
• Bonding cable shields at both ends
• Using Parallel Earth Conductors (PECs)
• Making reliable RF bonds
• 360° cable screen bonding
• Cable classes and their segregation
• Cable routing
• Controlling the common-mode loop
• What to do if you can’t bond screens at both ends
• Filtering
• Shielding
• Surge suppressers
• Lightning protection
• Preventing corrosion
• Power distribution systems
• Maintaining compliance in maintenance, repair, and upgrading
• Some useful references

Who should attend

This training course is specifically designed to provide practical guidance on compliance with the new EMC Directive 2004/108/EC, for persons who are responsible for Fixed Installations, their engineering staff, architects, electrical installers, and designers of equipment intended for named fixed installations.

About the Lecturer

Keith Armstrong graduated from Imperial College, London, in 1972 with an Honours Degree in Electrical Engineering, has been a member of the IEE (now the IET) since 1977, a UK Chartered Engineer since1978, and a Group 1 European Engineer since 1988. Cherry Clough Consultants was started by Keith in 1990 to help companies reduce costs, timescales and warranty costs whilst also complying with the EMC Directive and other regulations world-wide. Keith has presented many papers, demonstrations, and training courses on EMC, and on EMC for Functional Safety, worldwide, and has also written many articles on these topics. He chairs the IET’s Working Group on “EMC and Functional Safety”, and is the UK’s authorised representative on the IEC teams working on: IEC 61000-1-2 (EMC & Functional Safety, MT15), and IEC 60601-1-2 (EMC for Medical Devices, MT23).

Further Information

• Mode of delivery: This is a one-day workshop comprising presentations and practical demonstrations. Each delegate will receive a set of workshop notes as a reference document.
• Assessment: This course is a non-assessed short course.
• Date : The next Public presentation is 1st October, 2008
• Price : £195 + VAT per delegate. Fees include course materials, tuition, refreshments and lunches. The price does not include accommodation.
• Venue :  Manchester UK

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