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March 2010
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IEC WORLD

Electrified transportation:
Public and private, the IEC is facilitating energy efficient transportation around the globe

SMB - overview of the IEC Standardization Management Board and its various bodies

IEC Meetings Registration System - new online electronic tool

Grid ComForum - smart grid technology and beyond

New Review and Maintenance procedures for IEC publications in Directives supplement

 
CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT

IECEE - conformity assessment and testing of electric vehicles

IECEx – key to safety in hazardous areas

IECQ Chairman Management Committee, David W. Smith: potential of electronic component assessment

 
INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT

Electrically-powered public transport: power generation, supercapacitors and fuel cells together with some of the other challenges of the smart grid

 
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS

Electrically-powered switch-locomotives: fuel cells and a hydrogen future for trains

Fuel cell technology: from micro portable devices to cars, boats and trains - some of the work of TC 105

 
 
TECHNICAL COMMITTEE AFFAIRS

Airport travel - safety of X-ray systems used to scan people at frontiers: new International Standard IEC 62463, the work of SC 45B: Radiation protection instrumentation


X-ray security systems

Risk management - new International Standard IEC/ISO 31010 published by TC 56, Dependability

 
IEC FAMILY UPDATE

New Associate Members:
Georgia and Jordan - 77th and 78th IEC Member countries

Brunei Darussalam, participant in the IEC Affiliate Country Programme, adopts number of important safety standards

Chairmanships extended for TC 116: Safety of hand-held motor-operated electric tools, and TC 93: Design automation

Honduras, participant in the IEC Affiliate Country Programme, forms a National Electrotechnical Committee

 
SPECIAL

The electric car and the Better Place project - Shai Agassi, CEO

 
IN STORE

Functional Safety - revision of IEC 61508 soon to be published as a commented version

 
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