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Network Rail-sponsored seminar on behalf of AGRRI

If you're looking to attend a workshop on the New EMC Directive and Technical Documentation for the Railway Industry, we're running one in London on Wednesday, 4th June 2008 at the IET's Savoy Place.

‘EMC on the Railways - Who and How?’ — 25 November 2003

Introduction
Aims of the day
Who should attend?
Organising Committee
Programme
Further Information and Registration

Introduction

The Railways (Safety Case) Regulations 2000 require that Network Rail, as infrastructure controller, produces and maintains a Railway Safety Case. The Regulations place the responsibility with the party that introduces a change to demonstrate that the established level of safety is not compromised. Manufacturers are expected to comply with the EMC Directive and to take their own approach for protection against Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) to avoid malfunction of the victim system in proportion to the level of risk involved. EMC is demonstrated as part of the safety case, and cross-referenced from the EMC Project File. Once the safety case is accepted and the change approved responsibility for the safety performance is shared with Network Rail, maintainers and operators. Any maintenance and repair techniques should ensure so far as is reasonable practical that the EMC integrity of the product is not affected. How we do this and how we overcome the deficiencies of the existing EMC standards is the subject of this seminar.

Aims of the day

Discuss the main points arising from the IEE Seminar;
Brief participants on Network Rail’s emerging EMC Policy;
Spread knowledge on current and planned research directions;
Identify gaps in current knowledge and standards; and
Influence future thinking and research in this area.

Who should attend?

This event will be of interest to professional engineers concerned with management, equipment design, approvals and assurance, from all areas of the rail industry:

Network operators;
TOCs;
ROSCOs;
Consultancies;
Rolling stock manufacturers;
Signalling and infrastructure equipment designers and manufacturers;
Academics and Professionals with an interest in EMC; and
Those wanting to follow up issues from the IEE EMC Assurance seminar, 9 September 2003.

Organising Committee

Chris Marshman: York EMC Services, The University of York
Maya Petkova: Network Rail
Clive Avery: AEA Technology Rail
David Bulgin: Rail Safety and Standards Board

Programme

10.00	Registration and coffee
10.20	Introduction
10.30	EMC Responsibility in respect of application of the EMC Directive on UK Chris Marshman, York EMC Services
10.50	EMC policy of Network Rail Maya Petkova, Network Rail
11.10	EMC and development of new technology for trains and infrastructure Clive Avery, AEA Technology Rail
11.30	Coffee
12.00	A rolling stock manufacturer’s perspective TBA
12.20	Measurements of RFI from moving trains (results of new research sponsored by DTI) Andy Rowell, York EMC Services
12.40	Proposed research work on Railway EMC David Bulgin, Rail Safety and Standards Board
13.00	Lunch
14.00	Review and feedback from the IEE seminar Chris Marshman, York EMC Services
14.15	Panel discussion
15.30	Coffee, informal discussions and networking

These presentations are available from AGRRI's site

Further Information and Registration

Further information and a registration form are available (PDF file, 677 kB)

A transcription of the question and answer session is available.

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