Cherry Clough Consultants

TRAINING COURSES

In-house, public, on-line.
Standard and bespoke
RISK MANAGEMENT OF EMI

Functional Safety and other risks,
in any applications, all sectors.
PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS

Any number of layers. All applications.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

All types of personal computers and 'devices'.
Servers, server farms, RAID arrays, etc.
RADIO AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Telephones, cellphones, pagers, walkie-talkies, and their national infrastructures
CUSTOM EQUIPMENT AND SYSTEMS

All applications, any size.
BUILDINGS AND FIXED INSTALLATIONS

All purposes, any size, military or civilian.
ROAD AND ROAD TRANSPORT

Subassemblies, vehicles and infrastructure.
Military and civilian, hybrid and electric.
TRAINS AND TRAMS

Subassemblies, vehicles and infrastructure.
SHIPS, SUBMARINES AND
OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS
Subassemblies, vehicles, platforms and infrastructure.
AIRCRAFT, SPACECRAFT AND SATELLITES

Avionics, vehicles and infrastructure.
Military and civilian.
AUTOMATION AND MOTOR DRIVES

Control panels, robotics, system integration.
Any industry, any application.
AUDIO, VIDEO, RECORDING
AND BROADCASTING
Consumer and Professional.
Products, systems and installations.
MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL

All types, all applications.
POWER SUPPLIES AND CONVERTERS

Watts to Megawatts, all applications.
Uninterruptible, green/renewable power, etc.
MEDICAL DEVICES

Devices, equipment,
hospitals and healthcare centres.
DOMESTIC APPLIANCES

All types.

Welcome to Cherry Clough Consultants

Independent consultants who help designers, manufacturers, system integrators, installers, users deal quickly and cost-effectively with real-life interference (EMI), or compliance with EMC and Safety Directives and similar regulations worldwide. All applications, all industries, all sizes/scales.

Our SI, PI & EMC design techniques have been very well-proven for 26+ years to significantly reduce design and development time and cost; overall cost of manufacture; warranty costs, and financial risks, at all frequencies up to 24GHz (so far!) – whatever the relevant EMC standards: from the 'generics' up to the toughest, such as 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 have now been standardised by both the IET and the IEEE.

Most of our on-line effort is going into our new website emcstandards.co.uk, why not visit?
Keith’s Blog: https://www.emcstandards.co.uk/blog
EMC Academy: courses & books: https://www.emcstandards.co.uk/emcacademy
Keith's Linked In page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-armstrong-449801172/

...News update 16 August 2024...

EMC Europe 2024, 2-5 September
in the truly lovely city of Bruges, Belgium
(where they brew the best beers in the world)

1) Visit our booth, number 27
and play with our famous low-cost EMC Demonstration System, live
(PS: we are the only EMC Consultants in the exhibition!)

2) Keith will be presenting on the differences between:
EMC Risk Management
(now required for compliance with the EMC Directive) and,
Managing Functional Safety Risks that can be caused by EMI
(to help ensure compliance with the 'State of the Art'
for Product Safety and Product Liability laws in the EU, UK, USA, and worldwide)

Rod Macpherson will be teaching our world-famous 2-day course:
“Essential and Advanced PCB design and layout techniques
for quick and cost-effective SI, PI, EMC in 2024”,
in COLCHESTER, UK on the 28+29 OCTOBER 2024

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.
Banana Skins continues, within its pages, now up to number 970!

Keith has been joined by four Associates:
Andy Degraeve, of The Limit Line, Belgium
Dr Min Zhang, of Mach One Design, UK
Chris Nicholas, of Threysus, UK
Rod Macpherson, of Radiosmith, UK
They each bring new experience and skills to Cherry Clough Consultants Ltd
- check out their details using the left hand navigation bar

Video Webinars of Keith's training courses
are starting to be made available for purchase,
visit: https://emcstandards-shop.fedevel.education/index.html

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, but problems with hosting have made them unavailable for a year or so. But now they are back on-line! Visit: www.theemcjournal.com or www.compliance-club.com

Keith Armstrong'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.

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.
Sign up to the Twitter feed to be kept up-to-date with developments.

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.
Purchase from: https://standards.ieee.org/standard/1848-2020.html

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.