Welcome to Cherry Clough Consultants
Independent consultants helping designers, manufacturers, system integrators, installers, operators and users deal quickly and cost-effectively with real-life EMI and compliance with EMC and Safety Directives. All: Applications; Industries; Sizes/scales; Worldwide.
Our SI, PI & EMC design techniques have been very well-proven for 35+ years to significantly reduce: design and development risk (time and cost); overall cost of manufacture; warranty costs and financial risks, from DC to 24GHz (so far!) – whatever the relevant EMC standards: from 'generics' to the toughest: e.g. DEF STAN 59-411 Land Class A.
And our well-proven guidelines for reducing the Functional Safety and other risks that could be caused by EMI (even when all EMC tests are passed) have now been standardised by the IET, IEEE and IEC.
...News Update Winter 2025...
EMC & Compliance International (EMC+CI)
will be held at the Holiday Inn, Oxford, UK, on April 29 - May 1 2026
For the first time since 1990 (when it was EMC-UK) it will have an academic stream
Visit https://www.emcandci.com for details and to register
Patrick G André is our seventh Associate, based in WA, USA
Patrick's 43 years of EMC experience have mostly been in the aerospace and military applications, where he has supplied high-quality engineering in EMC design; test techniques; and informative training.
He is highly skilled in troubleshooting / problem resolution, with an eye on cost and manufacturability.
Visit https://www.cherryclough.com/associatepatrick
Praveen Rao is our sixth Associate, based in Australia and India
I'm now very pleased indeed to introduce Praveen Rao,
an expert in global compliance, standards and testing for 33 years, see https://www.cherryclough.com/associatepraveen
There seems to be nothing Praveen doesn't know about worldwide regulations and standards.
He has just added an EMC test lab to his offices in Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
And his offices in India help local manufacturers cope with the new Indian Regulations,
and help them succeed in global markets.
Dr Marco Klingler is our fifth Associate, based in Paris, France
I am very pleased indeed to announce Dr Marco Klingler as Cherry Clough Consultants' latest Associate! Marco worked on EMC for Stellantis for 22 years, see https://www.cherryclough.com/associatemarco, and has 156 papers and presentations on EMC
listed at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marco-Klingler.
Free EMC magazine: EMC AWARE
This new free on-line magazine makes information on EMC, its technologies and test equipment; events, job adverts, etc. available to all.
The world-famous Banana Skins continues within its pages, now up to number 970!
Video Webinars of Keith's training courses
https://fedevel.com/instructors/keith-armstrong#courses
Keith's training coursenotes available for on-line purchase
Keeping up-to-date with these coursenotes is better than buying textbooks,
because they rapidly become outdated.
The archive of the popular EMC Journal has been rehosted
All issues of the EMC Journal, and much else associated with that very successful UK EMC magazine, are archived. Problems with hosting have made them unavailable, but now they are back on-line! Visit: www.theemcjournal.com or www.compliance-club.com
Visit emcstandards.co.uk
The new site for easy and free access to the huge range of Keith Armstrong's published material, and a lot of additional stuff such as EMI Stories, EMC Design Checklists, Webinars, and more.
Register as a Member for even more premium material, and to be kept up to date
For what we used to call "EMC for Functional Safety"...
The current state of the art is: IEEE Std 1848-2020, "Techniques & Measures to Manage Functional Safety and Other Risks With Regard to Electromagnetic Disturbances"
published as a full IEEE Standard on 27 April 2021: https://standards.ieee.org/standard/1848-2020.html
NEW in 2024! The MEDICAL state of the art is now: IEC TS 60601-4-6:2024
Medical electrical equipment - Part 4-6: Guidance and interpretation - Voluntary guidance to help achieve basic safety and essential performance with regard to the possible effects of electromagnetic disturbances.
IEC TS 60601-4-6:2024 provides practical methods to help achieve basic safety and essential performance with regard to the possible effects of EM disturbances throughout the expected service life of medical equipment or systems.
These practical methods attempt to address all of the different types of errors, malfunctions or failures that can be caused by EM disturbances, and the purpose of this document is to provide recommendations for the techniques and measures used in the design, verification, and validation of systems, hardware, software, and firmware used in medical equipment or systems to help achieve Basic Safety and Essential Performance with regard to the EM disturbances that could occur throughout their expected service lives.
Purchase from: https://webstore.iec.ch/en/publication/80394
Keith Armstrong's textbooks
From October 2018 this is the new site for ordering my books, and some others.
My books are colour-printed 'on-demand' and are not available new from Amazon or other resellers, who might 'mistakenly' list them as being out of print.