creepage

The biggest compliance risks to your product launch are quiet, early, and easy to miss. Learn how to integrate product safety compliance from day one — and why the engineers who do build better products and reach market faster.

Circuit spacing is a key element in minimizing electrical shock and fire risks, which is critical for safe product development. This publication provides simplified guidelines to help understand, navigate, interpret, and apply circuit spacings, contributing to a successful safety and certification experience.

This blog by Don MacArthur discusses how to measure creepage and clearance distances on printed circuit boards (PCBs) to ensure safety. It covers definitions, design guidelines, measurement techniques, and tips for compliance engineering in electrical product safety.

This month's blog is pulled from the product safety playbook. It highlights a potential issue to avoid when considering an optocoupler's creepage distance when placed onto a printed circuit board (PCB).

The calculation of creepage and clearance distances (spacings) is one of the most important activities a product safety/compliance engineer or technician performs throughout the product development process.

Discover the critical boundary where solid meets air in electrical systems. Creepage—not an insulator but a junction between insulating media with vastly different electric strengths—demands careful engineering to prevent dangerous carbon tracking and electrical failures. Learn why this invisible boundary requires visible protection in modern circuit design.