Keith Armstrong

Graduated Imperial College, London, UK, 1972 with 2.1 Honours BSc. in Electrical Engineering.

 

Member IEE/IET 1977; Fellow 2010

Member IEEE 1997; Senior Member 2010

 

Worked for others for 18 years: inc. on digital Professional Audio, Microwave Instruments, etc.

 

Started Cherry Clough Consultants in 1990 to use well-proven SI, PI, EMC engineering design & manufacturing to help manufacturers reduce project costs, timescales, warranty costs, and risks.

 

IEEE award in 2018: “Excellence in Continuing EMC Engineering Education, for continuing education in EMC, signal integrity, and power integrity from a practically based point of view”.

 

UK’s representative on IEC 60601-1-2, IEC 61000-1-2, and IEC 61000-6-7.

 

Chaired IET’s “2017 Code of Practice on Electromagnetic Resilience in Support of Functional Safety”

 

Chaired IEEE Std 1848-2020 “Techniques and Measures to Manage Functional Safety and Other Risks with Regard to Electromagnetic Disturbances”.

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Systems and Installations:

Machinery and manufacturing/process systems Robotics Air traffic control towers

Computer and telecommunication centres Admin centres Financial dealer rooms

Professional audio systems and installations (theatres, opera houses, recording studios,etc.)

Chemical and pharmaceutical processing plant Steel rolling mills Hospitals

Nuclear materials processing plant Bottling and canning lines

Road tunnel lighting schemes Broadband-Over-Power-Line (BPL) systems

Mobile X-ray systems for shipping containers Railway systems and Rolling Stock Hotels

Synchrotrons (e.g. the Diamond Light Source, Harwell, Oxfordshire, www.diamond.ac.uk)

Nuclear Fusion Reactors, Tokamaks (e.g. the ITER project in southern France, www.iter.org/)

 

Products and items of equipment:

Industrial instrumentation, control, and machinery of all types and sizes

Variable speed AC and DC motor drives, from very small up to 10MW

Automotive engine control units (ECUs) and other electronic subassemblies (ESAs)

Battery chargers, from very small up to MW

Power converters: AC-DC, DC-DC, DC-AC, AC-AC, from very small up to 10MW

Information technology equipment (ITE) e.g. computers, servers, RAID arrays

Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and other hand-held wireless-enabled computing devices

Marine equipment Subsea oil and gas production equipment

Photocopiers Digital Signal Processing

Datacommunications devices Professional audio consoles and other pro equipment

Cinema digital video projectors Lighting Gas boilers

Telephones and telecommunications Consumer electronics (TV, Hi-Fi, etc.)

Radiocommunications, cellphones, pagers Gambling machines Solar power converters

Domestic (household) appliances Lifts (elevators) Welding lasers

Electrical power generators (small scale) Electricity meters Coin mechanisms

Building electrical services equipment Digital microwave radio Robots

Military submarine variable-speed winch Military avionics Military land vehicles

Medical equipment (various) Microscope manipulators Induction heating

Security equipment Mains-borne communications

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Services provided in:

 

• EMC and EMI

• Safe design of electronics

• Functional Safety risks from EMI

• Design

• Diagnostics / fault-finding / fixing

• Training

– In 2018, Keith was the first recipient of the IEEE EMC Society’s “Excellence in Continuing EMC Education Award”, for “Continuous education in EMC, signal integrity and power integrity from a practically based point of view”

– Video training courses on good, quick, cost-effective design for EMC, SI & PI

• QA, QC, for EMC compliance

• Project management

• PCBs, modules, products, systems, installations

• One-offs, to volume manufacture

• All applications, any size, any scale

• Worldwide