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Understanding Arc Suppression: The Role of RC Networks in Protecting Electrical Contacts and Relays

Find out how a humble resistor and capacitor pair can stop switching arcs from quietly chewing through relay and contactor contacts. Learn what to weigh when sizing an RC snubber, and where the approach starts to show its limits before your maintenance costs climb.

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U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

FCC Provides Guides to Help Consumers Stop Robocalls, Texts

New how-to guides show consumers how to switch on the blocking and filtering tools already built into their phones and carrier services. See which devices and providers are covered, and what a proposed scorecard could mean for choosing a provider.
Engineering News

MIT Scientists Have Developed a Paper-Based Battery You Can Swallow

MIT researchers have created a paper-like battery that breaks down in the body, and early tests in pigs show it can keep powering after days in the stomach. Read how it could change electronic pills and internal medical devices.
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EOS/ESD Association, Inc. Announces 2026 Elected Officers and Board Members

Meet the leaders who will guide EOS/ESD Association, Inc. into 2027. Four directors and three executive officers from leading companies and organizations will help shape the future of ESD education, standards, and control for a global community of static control professionals.

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How to Become A Great Compliance Engineering Professional

The journey to becoming an excellent compliance engineering professional is an ongoing process of continuous learning, practical skill development, and unwavering commitment to ensuring product safety, regulatory compliance, and maintaining the highest standards of professional integrity.
White Papers

Radio Module Integration Guide

Radio modules are transforming how products connect and communicate, but integration brings complex regulatory responsibilities. This whitepaper provides a clear, practical guide to navigating global approvals, testing requirements, and compliance risks, helping manufacturers accelerate development while ensuring their connected products meet the standards needed for successful market entry.
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Automation-Ready Electrical Safety Testing For Smart Manufacturing

Learn how electrical safety testing must adapt to Industry 4.0 production environments with automated, high-speed hipot testing. This application note explains how programmable tests, seamless PLC/robot integration, and traceable data capture with Vitrek testers help manufacturers boost throughput, improve quality, and maintain compliance in smart, automated production lines.
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Demystifying IEC 60601: A Practical Guide For Understanding The Standards

This whitepaper demystifies the IEC 60601 family of medical electrical safety standards, explaining general, collateral, and particular requirements and how they impact global market access. It offers practical guidance on integrating compliance, risk management, and testing strategies early to streamline regulatory approval and accelerate time to market.
Application Note

The Impact of Solar Superstorms on Engineering Infrastructure and Mitigation

This Application Note discusses the threat of solar superstorms and geomagnetic disturbances to modern infrastructure, highlighting historic events like the Carrington Event. It emphasizes the need for robust engineering solutions, national policies, and advanced protection technologies, such as HEMP filters, to safeguard power grids and critical systems from electromagnetic and geomagnetic risks.
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Choosing The Right Hipot Platform For Modern Manufacturing Electrical Safety

Modern manufacturing demands more than basic electrical safety testing. This article explains how to select the right hipot platform based on production volume, automation requirements, measurement precision, data traceability, and compliance needs. It compares the capabilities of Vitrek’s V7X, 95X, and V10X platforms for scalable, Industry 4.0-ready electrical safety testing environments.
White Papers

Critical Role of ESS in Data Center Safety and Resilience

Discover how energy storage systems (ESS) ensure data center resilience, mitigate risks like thermal runaway, and comply with critical standards. Learn about evaluation processes, benefits for stakeholders, and future trends in energy storage safety and reliability.
White Papers

Overcoming Galvanic Compatibility Challenges in EMI Shielding

Learn how galvanic corrosion impacts EMI shielding systems, degrades electrical performance, and reduces product reliability in harsh environments. Discover practical material selection and corrosion-mitigation strategies, plus insights from ASTM B117 salt-fog testing that compare passivation finishes, gasket materials, and metallic components to improve long-term shielding performance and durability.
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Your Ferrite Core Questions, Answered

In this episode of Soft Magnetics, Hard Topics, Mike and Bridget answer common Ask the Advisor questions about Ferrite Snap-It™ products. Learn how to choose the right Snap-It™, how ferrite cores reduce EMI, and ways to secure ferrites to cables or housings.
Guide

A Dash of Maxwell’s: A Maxwell’s Equations Primer

Through mathematical precision, Glen Dash offers a comprehensive exploration of Maxwell's Equations, revealing the intricate mechanisms by which electric and magnetic fields interact to explain electromagnetic radiation and fundamentally shape our technological understanding of modern electronics and communications.
White Papers

The Future of Cable Testing: Why Intelligent Automation Is Replacing Manual Validation

Explore how intelligent automation is transforming cable and harness testing. This whitepaper examines the limitations of manual validation and explains how automated high-voltage testing, multi-point switching, guided workflows, and digital traceability can improve throughput, repeatability, quality, and compliance while supporting increasingly complex cable assemblies and production requirements.
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Mastering High Voltage: The Importance of Accurate Test Equipment

This whitepaper underscores that precise calibration of high-voltage test gear — especially when measuring 1 kV–150 kV systems — is essential for safety, reliability, and regulatory compliance. It details measurement techniques (voltage dividers, step-down transformers, etc.), the impact of environmental and connection factors on accuracy, and why traceable calibration (e.g. to NIST / A2LA) is a must to ensure consistent, reliable results.

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U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Robotic Surgical Devices

Manufacturers of robotically assisted surgical devices have a new FDA draft guidance to review before submitting. Learn what it recommends on testing, clinical data, and labeling, and how the comment period gives industry a voice in the final version.
U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

FCC Proposes Fine for Jamming Jewelry Store Security

A jewelry store burglary in Texas has landed three suspects with a proposed federal fine after police communications were allegedly blocked by RF jammers. Find out what the FCC says about the devices and how much the penalty could cost them.

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Standards and Compliance

Why the Hazards of Lithium-Ion Batteries Require a Different Approach to Safety

As lithium-ion battery energy storage systems scale up, so does the risk when something goes wrong. Drawing on FDNY's frontline experience, this article breaks down thermal runaway, propagation, and the codes, testing, and installation practices that determine whether a battery failure stays contained or turns catastrophic.
Testing

The Impact of Power Flow Analysis on an Electrical System

Constant-power loads break the assumptions behind linear circuit analysis, and the fallout shows up as undersized batteries, excess heat, and stressed inverters. New drivetrain testing on a Kia EV-6 reveals why batteries, inverters, and motors need to be modeled together, not separately, to get electrified powertrains right.

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