July 2026

No new harmonized EN EMC standard has cleared the OJEU since 2022 — and the backlog is only getting more tangled. Between a landmark court ruling, a copyright fight with ISO/IEC, and the EU's pivot toward Common Specifications, the rules for proving compliance are shifting under manufacturers' feet.

A power cord might look like a commodity part, but it's one of the most heavily regulated subsystems in any globally distributed device. Five-country certification rules — covering plugs, cables, connectors, and cord sets — can quietly stall shipments if engineering teams get the documentation wrong.

A common ESD flooring assumption gets the physics backwards — and it could be steering facilities toward the wrong resistance category entirely. Drawing on decades-old Bell Labs research, this piece traces exactly where a CDM event actually begins, and why flooring resistance alone won't protect against it.

A glowing ad claim or an overstated label can do more legal damage than a flawed component ever could. From decades-old case law to the recent Johnson & Johnson talc verdict, this piece breaks down how marketing language becomes courtroom evidence — and how manufacturers can stay out of the crosshairs.

Why does a solid metal enclosure block an incoming wave almost completely, yet still let a sliver of energy through? This installment of EMC Concepts Explained walks through the reflection and transmission math at both shield interfaces, showing exactly why thickness and conductivity make all the difference.

Rule-based checks and tribal-knowledge methods can't keep up with chiplets, 3D stacking, and multi-domain ICs anymore. This roadmap from the ESD Association lays out where EDA tools, machine learning, and SPICE-based modeling are headed — and what verification will actually look like by 2030.