Power Safety and Regulations: Standards That Shape Smarter Design
In today’s fast-evolving landscape of power electronics, safety and efficiency are no longer optional; they’re foundational. Whether you're designing for automotive, industrial, or consumer applications, understanding the regulatory frameworks that govern power systems is essential to building reliable, compliant, and future-ready products.
This resource hub brings together key articles that decode the most critical standards and directives in power safety and energy efficiency. From functional safety in electric vehicles and industrial control systems to global energy efficiency benchmarks and electromagnetic compliance, each article is crafted to help engineers navigate complexity with clarity.
Explore the following topics:
- Automotive Functional Safety: A deep dive into ISO 26262 and how it applies to EV traction inverters and high-voltage systems. Learn how ASIL classifications guide risk mitigation strategies in modern vehicles.
- Industrial Functional Safety: Understand IEC 61508 and how SIL ratings help quantify and reduce risk in advanced control systems. Discover how FMEDA and certified components streamline compliance.
- Energy Efficiency Standards: Compare the ErP Directive, Energy Star, and 80 Plus certification programs. Learn how these initiatives influence design decisions and drive global sustainability.
- EMC/EMI Regulations: Master the fundamentals of electromagnetic compatibility and interference. Explore design techniques and global standards that ensure power quality and regulatory compliance.
Whether you're refining a power supply or architecting a safety-critical system, these articles offer practical insights and actionable guidance to support your engineering journey.
Energy Efficiency Standards Every Design Engineer Should Know
Energy efficiency is a focus for most power system designs, and engineers should need no encouragement to strive for ever-better efficiency. We introduce key initiatives and explain what you need to know.
ISO 26262: Ensuring Vehicle Functional Safety
With increasing reliance on advanced high power electronics in vehicles, design engineers need to implement key safety aspects. To do this, they must understand the relevant automotive standards, in particular ISO 26262.
Understanding EMC and EMI Regulations in Power Electronic Design
In power electronics, it’s essential that engineers understand the concepts of electromagnetic interference (EMI) and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), and how to manage the issues they create.
IEC 61508: Designing Safe Power in Advanced Control Systems
As electrical, electronic, and programmable electronic (E/E/PE) systems have become more widely used and more complex, mitigating the risk of a failure causing harm to people has become more important. The IEC61508 standard sets requirements.
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