The IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society seeks original, unpublished papers and tutorials on all aspects of product safety and compliance engineering including, but not limited to:
Forensics Track:
Papers and presentations on Forensics will include:
• The latest findings in failure analysis on new components and miniaturization of common products implemented by the electronics industry.
• Descriptions of failure analysis involving rare failure modes that are not commonly seen in any given product line.
• Developments in the general tools and techniques used for quality failure analysis of electronic and electrical products.
• Dominant failure modes for a given type of component, detailing causes and effects of these failure modes.
Large Format Lithium Ion Batteries Track:
Papers and presentations on large format lithium ion batteries will include:
• Battery technologies for vehicles.
• Current standards and activities around developing new standards for batteries.
• Potential failure modes and risks associated with large format batteries.
• Failure analysis techniques.
• What we can learn from past experience regarding battery safety.
EMC Product Compliance Track:
Papers and presentations on EMC product compliance will include:
• EMC Standards and Regulations
• PCB design for EMC compliance
• EMC shielding, grounding, filtering and layout considerations for compliance
• EMC Troubleshooting techniques
• EMC compliance and non-compliance case studies
• Smart Grid EMC considerations
• Transportation system EMC
• Electric Vehicle EMC
• Lightning Protection
• Electrostatic discharge protection
Medical Devices Track - “The impact of the new IEC 60601-1”:
Papers and presentations on Medical Devices will include:
• Risk Management process
• Essential performances
• Patient and Operator – different requirements
• How to deal with the Collateral Standards
• Manufacturer opinion
• Consultant opinion
• Testing House opinion
Risk Assessment Track – Are you ready for Risk Assessments in Standards??
Papers and presentations on Risk Assessments will include:
• Introduction to Risk Assessments and various techniques
• Introduction to CSA Z1002 Occupational Health and Safety based on ISO12100. How will it
affect Machinery Standards in Canada?
• Functional Safety and Machinery: Are Standards like ISO 13849‐1 and IEC 62061taking focus
away from other Risk Control Measures?
• New laws in member states of the EU affecting the Directives
• IEC62326 Hazard Based Standard
• Risk Assessments for Electromedical Equipment
• ISO Guide 51
General Track:
Papers and presentations in the General Track will include:
• Product Specific: Consumer, medical, computer (IT), test and measurement, power supplies, telecommunication, industrial control, electric tools, home appliances, cellular and wireless, etc.
• Hazard Specific: Electrical, mechanical, fire, thermal, chemical, optical, software, functional, reliability, risk assessment, etc.
• EMC / RF: Electromagnetic emissions, electromagnetic immunity, regulatory, Introduction to EMC/RF for the safety engineer and compliance engineer.
• Components: Grounding, insulation, opto-couplers, cables, capacitors, connectors, current-limiters, transformers, current-limiters, fuses, lasers, ferrites, environmental, electromagnetic suppression & protection, surge protectors, printed wiring boards, etc.
• Certification: Electromagnetic emissions & immunity, Environmental, Product safety, Processes, safety testing, regulatory, product liability etc.
• Standards Activities: Development, status, interpretations, country specific requirements, Laboratory Accreditation, etc.
• Research: Body physiological responses to various hazardous energy sources, unique safeguard schemes, electrically-caused fire, forensic methods etc.
• Environmental: RoHS, WEEE, EuP (Energy-using Products), Energy Star, Packaging Directives, REACH (Chemical), CeC, etc.
• Demonstration Papers: Demonstrations of product safety testing techniques including mechanical, electrical, fire, etc.
