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While product safety and reliability are core principles of virtually every manufacturer designing equipment for the telecom industry, the Telcordia Generic Requirements (GRs) that ensure the integrity of such devices and systems are not commonly understood by manufacturers around the globe.

Considering EMC techniques during the design phase will minimize EMC problems and avoid disasters uncovered at EMC test time. At this time, the remedial measures are usually very painful.

In the typical case, where the electronic equipment is contained within a single enclosure, enclosure shielding along with cable filtering or shielding are commonly employed to meet EMC requirements.

Federal and commercial companies are being asked to relinquish as much space as they can of the electromagnetic radiation frequency spectrum for the Department of Defense. The part of the spectrum that is needed for the current fleet of the U.S. military drones and the next generation of F-35 stealth jets is also being used by cellphone users.

Airbus has joined other OEMs as part of Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) aerospace program. The announcement was made earlier this week at the Aerospace Technology Leadership Forum.

According to a growth forecast from research group, Freedonia, the 3D printing market is expected to reach $5.0bn in 2017. This represents an annual growth rate of 20.7%, from $1.95bn in 2012.