The Grounding Symbols
With the various markings available to identify ground terminals, how do you know which specific symbol should be used? The international standards are the right place to go for guidance, and this column will o... Read More...
Quality and Safety for Everyone
We are living in the century of quality. Hand-in-hand with quality, for society as well as sound business practice, goes safety. Born from the need to address these concerns, the field of compliance engineering... Read More...
System-product Response to Electrostatic Discharge Events
The myth: A system-product that successfully complies with the criteria of ESD (IEC-based) Standards will not exhibit personnel ESD susceptibility when used in actual installations.
The reality: The ESD “sim... Read More...
The iNARTE Informer – January 2012
The staff and directors of iNARTE extend our best wishes for the 2012 New Year to all our friends, volunteers, members, partners, associates and affiliates. Without all of your help and support our programs wou... Read More...
Keep Looking
Rufus set up the stepladder outside the trauma room so I could climb up and take a look above the panels in the drop ceiling. For the past few days we’d been looking for the source of interference to the electr... Read More...
The iNARTE Informer – December 2011
The iNARTE office has switched to a wintertime schedule. With the shorter daylight hours and the local school schedules, we will be open at the usual 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Monday to Thursday, but only from 9:00 am... Read More...
Globally Standardized Symbols
Globally standardized symbols are available for you in two categories, those that identify functions and controls, and those that identify safety concerns.
Symbols are standardized worldwide by two highly-ac... Read More...
Power Line Common-mode Conducted EMI Emission
The myth: Conducted EMI emission profiles are always attributable to conducted currents propagating from the product power connections to the Line Impedance Stabilization (artificial mains) Networks (LISNs)
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The iNARTE Informer – November 2011
It has been a few weeks since we had a most unwelcome visit from Hurricane Irene in the New Bern area. Most of us are getting back to near normality, but the curbsides are still piled with trees and branches br... Read More...
ISO 7010
This is the first in what will be an on-going column about compliance with graphical symbols for safety warnings.
Since 1996 I’ve chaired the American National Standards Institute’s U.S. Technical Advisory G... Read More...