Proficiency Testing in EMC

METAS provides proficiency testing in EMC (Electro-Magnetic compatibility) according to ISO 17043.

The EMC Laboratory of METAS has acquired a considerable international experience in organising comparisons and evaluating round robin test devices (see publications).

Test	Standard	Bilateral	Interlaboratory Comparison Campaign
Conducted Emission Simple (single interface)	CISPR 16	yes	-
Conducted Emission Complex (three interfaces)	CISPR 16/32	yes	-
Radiated Emission (comb generator with antenna)	CISPR 16/32	yes	yes
Radiated Emission (EUT with cabling)	CISPR 16/32	yes	-
Radiated Immunity	IEC 61000-4-3	yes	-
Burst Immunity (NEW)	IEC 61000-4-4	yes	yes
Conducted Immunity	IEC 61000-4-6	yes	yes
Surge Immunity	IEC 61000-4-5	yes	yes

Round robin test devices

METAS has developed round robin test devices for the following tests:

Conducted Emission (simple EUT)		CISPR 16/32
Conducted Emission (complex EUT)		CISPR 16/32
Radiated Emission (simple EUT)		CISPR 16/32
Radiated Emission (complex EUT)		CISPR 16/32
Conducted Immunity		IEC 61000-4-6
Radiated Immunity		IEC 61000-4-3
Surge Immunity		IEC 61000-4-5
Burst Immunity		IEC 61000-4-4

Proficiency testing in the EMC laboratory of METAS

Service for EMC capability assessment

In order to assess the EMC test capabilities of your laboratory, the round robin devices of METAS are available for bilateral comparison.

For more information please contact us (emc@metas.ch).

Publications

Emrah Tas, et al., "Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Proficiency Testing in EMC Conducted Immunity", IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Vol. 59, Issue 5, pp. 1433-1440, 2017.
Frédéric Pythoud, "Proficiency Testing in EMC Radiated Immunity", IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic compatibility, Vol. 60, Issue 5, pp.1249-1253, 2018
Emrah Tas, et al. "Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Proficiency Testing in EMC Surge Immunity", IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Vol. 62, Issue 6, pp. 2368 – 2375, 2020.
Proficiency testing - a fact based demonstration (PDF, 666 kB, 06.07.2020)
Frédéric Pythoud, Emrah Tas, "Proficiency testing - La démonstration par les faits!" METinfo_1_2017, p. 9-12