Automotive EMC 2007 Conference: Navigating Automotive Compliance
Delegate Questionnaire Response and Analysis
All questions were answered on the scale of 1 to 5 as given below;
1 Very Poor (significantly poorer than expected)
2 Poor (below expectation)
3 Good (met expectation)
4 Very Good (exceeded expectation)
5 Excellent (significantly better than expected)
All results shown are the modal average. Items shown in italics are quotes from the questionnaire responses.
Venue: Location: 4 Facilities: 4
Refreshments/Lunch: 3
Link
up with EMC UK is good, Break Lengths meant good chance to see exhibitors. It
is the best place for conference because of beautiful and quiet situation. Provide
transport facilities. Provide
mineral water, juices etc. during coffee breaks. A
long journey, but well signposted and easy to get to. Newbury
can be problematic to drive to and many people were late. Being
one of the late arrivers myself I can hardly disagree with the final statement,
I only missed about 5 minutes (and it did start early), but it can be difficult
to get to Newbury from the north of the London-Oxford latitude, there was an
incident on the M40 north of Oxford that caused traffic queues and public
transport to Newbury from anywhere outside the South West of the UK is difficult
to say the least. However, most people arrived on-time so those of us who
were late were in the minority. Mineral
water or juices would have been nice during the breaks. There were other
refreshment options at the venue, but these would have had to be paid for
separately and it can be difficult to cater for all peoples tastes, but
certainly I think water should perhaps have been available (even if only chilled
tap water). In
general this years conference was significantly better organised than the
earlier visit the Automotive EMC Conference made to EMC UK in 2004, and all the
credit goes to Nutwood UK, the organisers of the main exhibition and general
(i.e. non-Automotive) EMC conference.
Conference
Organisation: Booking
Information: 3 Delegate
Pack: 4
Everything
needed was provided CD
material is very useful. Add
paper to take notes during conferences. No
pen. Different
to previous years booking arrangements, why?
As
in previous years I would have liked to have added pens and a note pad,
unfortunately we ran out of pens and didn't have the budget for
notepads! There were plenty of pens from the stands in the
exhibition and there were a few blank pages in the printed proceedings. The
booking was different from previous years as we handed all the
organisation, including booking, to Nutwood UK so that the delegates could
have a single point of contact and single method of payment if they wanted
to attend the other events on the second day. When we tried seperate
booking methods in 2004 we ended up in a lot of confusion at the start of
the day and this was clearly avoided this year.
Papers
and Presentations: Content Presentation Best
Vote Keynote
Presentation: An Overview
of the Automotive EMC Laboratory Recognition Program, AEMCLRP Ayhan
Gunsaya, Ford Motor Company
Revision
of ISO 7637-3 An Introduction to the New Requirements Simon
Young, EMV Ltd
Modelling Antennas for
Inter-Vehicle Communications John
Rajeev Ojha,
Technical University of Hamburg
The Groundplane
Resonance Problems with Radiated Emissions Measurements Below 30 MHz Luke
Turnbull, TRW Conekt
Designing to Meet ISO
7637 Pulse 5 (Load Dump) Tim
Jarvis, RadioCAD
Automotive ESD Changes
in ISO/DIS 10605: 2007 Martin
OHara, Automotive EMC Network
Relevance of Reference
Levels for In-Vehicle Field Exposure Assessment Alastair
Ruddle, MIRA Ltd
Automotive
EMC: Cable Coupling and Filtering Paul
Duxbury, Flomerics
Conference
Overall Rating: 4
Good
range of subjects Every
session are very interesting. High
level discussion and high quality explanation helps my understanding. I
would like to join it next year is I have a chance. Add
printed presentations to conference proceedings. It
is useful to have written notes for the other sessions (not attending) as
reference material. It
was good that it was tied to an EMC event. Well
balanced agenda with high standard of content and presentation. Thank you. Great
for general interest, plus some points to definitely consider during
future designs. Good
overall conference, content and quality remains high. Another
excellent series of papers that were clearly well received.
Discussions were quite involved from both presenters and delegates and the
range of topics was extensive for just 8 papers, covering design, test and
compliance issues. Would
you be interested in attending Automotive EMC 2008
[ YES=82% of respondents
] Clearly
this is the best compliment the conference could have, many thanks to all those
who filled in their forms.
Martin
O'Hara November
2007
3
3
4
3
3
3
4
4
1st
4
4
2nd
4
5
3
3
3
3
© www.AutoEMC.net 2007 TOP OF PAGE HOME