The new IET Guide – how to do EMC to help achieve Functional Safety

Abstract

The continuing increases in electronic complexity, and the continuing shrinking of the feature sizes in silicon integrated circuits, has made the normal testing-based approach to EMC inadequate where safety is concerned. So the new discipline of 'EMC for Functional Safety' has had to be developed to help maintain tolerable levels of safety risks. The IET's new Guide comprehensively describes practical and cost-effective procedures for both management and engineering, which can be used right away to help to save lives and reduce injuries, wherever electronic technologies are used in safety-implicated products, systems or installations of any type. It includes useful checklists to aid project management, design and compliance assessment. For a number of reasons, real financial savings can generally be expected when the Guide is correctly applied, as well as a significant reduction in financial risks.