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IEEE Product Safety Engineering Symposium (PSES'04)
Technical Sessions, Workshops, Tutorials, Demonstrations, Exhibits, more
  • August 13-15, 2004
  • Santa Clara Convention Center
  • Santa Clara

Reduced Rates through July 1st!

Information and Registration for the PSES'04

Listing of Speakers and Topics

For more information, contact Diana Krynski by email, or call 800 810 4333.

Technical and Professional Workshops and Presentations -- partial listing (see the Advance Program for days/times):
Included in full-registration package

  • Keith Armstrong: EMC for Functional Safety (based on the IEE's new training course)
    This course describes the problems, shows how to identify actual risks, and provides practical engineering techniques for correctly dealing with EMC to reduce functional safety risks in a cost-effective manner.

  • Lal Bahra: Cemented Joints in Solid Insulation
    How to understand cemented joints in solid insulation - a cemented joint on the same inner layer of a multi-layer printed wiring board; a cemented joint in triple-insulated winding wire; and the acceptance of smaller than 0.4 mm thick insulation in semiconductor type devices.

  • Leslie Bai: China Product Safety Requirements
    Based on first-hand experience, several aspects of the "unwritten law" of the China Product Safety requirements. Overview of the CCC Mark Certification System; tactics to deal with multiple China certifications with different Chinese government agencies.

  • Jeff Bruner: Designing for Safety -- How to Communicate with the Engineering Team
    A case study of intranet-based tools one semiconductor equipment supplier is using, with examples of actual web pages; emphasis on facilitating "design for safety" with an on-line engineering product design guide.

  • Elizabeth Buc: Designing for Safety -- Heat Release Rates of Household Items
    Full-scale burn testing and oxygen consumption calorimetry to assess the role that products have in the overall residential fire hazard; the contribution of these products to the risk of room flashover, time to ignition, rate of heat release.

    ... plus two dozen other Workshops and Presentations.

    		• Included in full-registration package

  • Mark Frankfurth and Mark A. Kraus: Impacts of Design and Production Outsourcing on the Safety and Compliance Component of Industrial Equipment Development and Testing
    Current trends toward reliance on outsourced services including design, documentation, prototyping, testing, and manufacturing of non-core product elements, with compliance expectations consistently increasing; the ways in which safety and regulatory compliance is integrated into product development; and how to manage product development in this new environment.

  • Gary Harding: Medical Product Design
    Design requirements specifically related to medical product design, not to clinical practices, such as design of alarms (sound levels, defeat capability, etc.) and special needs in the health care arena.

  • Dean LaRue: CPSC: Who We Are and What We Do
    The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) protects children and families against unreasonable risk of injury and death. A brief history, including jurisdictional authority, leadership, and products overseen by the CPSC. Recent electrical safety activities such as heaters, metal oxide varistors and smoke alarms.

  • Dr. Z: Safeguarding against Mother-in-law Visits and Consequent Isolation from your Spouse
    Just by marriage, a hazardous mother in-law is generated. The presentation will explore why mothers-in-law are permitted to exist and what studs/babes can be safely pursued.

  • Standards Workshops: One-day IEC Standards Workshop
    Richard Pescatore: "IEC TC 108, The Way of the Future"
    Helmut Hintz: "Protection against Electric Shock - Proposal for a new Standard for ITE and Audio/Video Products"
    Richard Nute: "Protection against Electrically-caused Fire; Proposal for a New Standard for ITE and Audio/Video products"
    Joe Gryn: IECEE Manufacturer's Testing Programs"
    Ronald Vaickauski: "CTL/OSM Relevance and Processes"

    • See also the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Conference, immediately before PSES'04 and also held at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

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