EMC IN DEFENCE SYSTEMS WORKSHOP

A one or two-day workshop in the practice of Electromagnetic Compatibility in Defence Systems for Defence personnel, Defence Contractors and Sub-Contractors, Suppliers to Defence Dept. and Defence Contractors, Project Managers, System & equipment designers, EMC practitioners.

FEATURES:

·      Workshop format with practical orientation.

·      Tailored to the defence environment, with its particular EMC requirements.

·      Addresses questions such as how to incorporate EMC requirements into project management and what to do if equipment or system fails EMC testing.

OUTLINE: Workshop content is varied to suit requirements of participants. Topics are selected from:

Introduction to EMC:  The Need for EMC, Electromagnetic Environmental Effects E3, ECM, EMC Defined, Internal EMC, External EMC, EMI, EMI Sources, EMI Victims, Source-Victim coupling, EMI Characteristics.

EMC Standards:  MIL-Standards, Other Military Standards, Commercial Standards, Relationship between Standards, Purpose of EMC Standards, Limitations of EMC Standards, Mis-use of EMC Standards.

EMC Testing:  Test Plans, Test Procedures, Radiated Emission Tests, Conducted Emission Tests, Radiated Susceptibility Tests, Conducted Susceptibility Tests, Analysing test results and follow-up to Testing, Pre-Compliance testing.

Test Facilities:  Test Equipment, EMI Receivers, Spectrum analysers, Antennas, Current Clamps, LISNs, Injection Transformers, Screened Rooms, Anechoic Chambers, Mode Stirred Chambers, Test Loads.

EMC Design Techniques:  Screening, Filtering, Bonding, Earthing, Surge Suppression, Separation, Antenna decoupling, Receiver protection, Blanking.

RADHAZ:  HERO, HERP, HERF. 

EMC in Aircraft: EMI Sources and Victims in Aircraft, EMC Design for Aircraft, Lightning, P-Static, HIRF.

EMC in Ships: The Marine Environment, EMI Sources and Victims in Ships, EMC Design for Ships.

EMC in Vehicles: EMI Sources and Victims in Vehicles, EMC Design for Vehicles, EMC Testing of Vehicles.

EMC in Ground Facilities: EMI Sources and Victims in Ground Facilities, EMC Design for Ground Facilities, EMC Testing of Ground Facilities.

EMC Management: EMC Control Plans, EMC in Specifications, Managing EMC Design & Testing.

EMC in Specifications & Tenders:  EMC in System Specifications. Function and Performance Specifications, Tender Specifications, Integrating requirements for EMI control, EMP, RADHAZ and Tempest. Sub-contractors may agree to meet EMC requirements, but do they understand those requirements?  Are they capable of meeting them?

Establishing EMC Requirements: Characteristics of equipment, Electromagnetic Environment Effects (E3), Operating environments, MIL-STD environments, Legacy system EMC Specifications.

Tailoring EMC Standards: Why tailor? How to tailor.

EMC in Tender Evaluation: Evaluating Vendor responses, Full or Partial Compliance, EMC and Tender Evaluation Working Groups (TEWGs).

Evaluating EMC Compliance: Vendor supplied test certificates and test results, Checking test procedures and results, Accredited Test Houses.

Evaluating EMC Non-compliance: Degree of non-compliance, Significance of the non-compliance, Recovering from EMC test failure.

Specifying EMC Requirements: Reference to Standards, EMC Clauses, EMC Specifications – the art of the possible, Vendor/Contractor Capability, EMC DIDs.

Hints and Tips: EMC Products and Services, Sources of Information, EMC Publications, References, Exercises.

THE PRESENTER:

Workshop presenter Mr John Hyne has conducted numerous electromagnetic interference investigations for clients in State & Federal government and private industry. He has planned and conducted EMC testing on military equipment and systems in Australia and UK, and developed test methods for commercial and MOD testing. He has conducted numerous short courses and workshops on EMC for Defence personnel, government and industry engineers and technical staff.

John has acted as an independent consultant to government, industry and trade unions and is the author of five texts on EMC topics.

His professional activities have included the design and installation of secure communications, electronic systems and electronic countermeasures, and development and promulgation of secure communications installation criteria, design of military satellite communications systems and conduct of radio propagation and noise studies at Defence installations.

Mr. Hyne is a member of the IEEE EMC Society and a founding member, life member and former chairman of the EMC Society of Australia.

ENQUIRIES:

PARADIGM PRESS PTY LTD                    Phone:  (03) 8848 0998          

6 Lauren Place                                                            email  sales@paradigm-press.com

Doncaster    Vic    3108.

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