Keith Armstrong

United Kingdom » Cherry Clough Consultants

About Me (Bio): Keith graduated from Imperial College, London, in 1972 with an Honours Degree in Electrical Engineering, has been a member of the IET since 1977, a UK Chartered Engineer since 1978, and a Group 1 European Engineer since 1988.

After working as an electronic designer, then as project and department manager, Keith started Cherry Clough Consultants in 1990 to help companies reduce costs and timescales through the use of good EMC engineering.

Keith has presented many papers, demonstrations, and training courses on EMC, and on EMC for Functional Safety, worldwide, and written very many articles on these topics over the last 18 years.

He is currently President of the EMC Industries Association, chairs the IET’s Working Group on “EMC and Functional Safety”, and is the UK’s authorized representative on IEC 61000-1-2 (EMC & Functional Safety), and IEC 60601-1-2 (EMC for Medical Devices).

Academic Qualifications
BSc (Elec.Eng), Upper 2nd Class with Honours, Imperial College of Science & Technology, London, UK, 1972

Professional Qualifications
Member IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology, formerly the Institution of Electrical Engineers, IEE, since 1871), London, UK 1977
Associate of the City and Guilds Institute, London, UK, 1972
UK Chartered Engineer, Engineering Council, London, UK, 1978
Group 1 European Engineer (EurIng), FEANI, Paris, France, 1988
Member IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Inc.) USA, and member of its EMC and Product Safety Engineering Societies 1998

Professional Activities
President of the EMC Industries Association (EMCIA) 2008-date
Chair of IET’s Working Group on EMC and Functional Safety 1997-date
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility 2007-date
UK expert appointed (by invitation) to IEC maintenance team MT23 for IEC 60601-1-2 (Medical Equipment/Systems EMC 2006-date
UK expert appointed (by invitation) to IEC maintenance team MT15 for IEC 61000-1-2 (EMC & Functional Safety) 2003-date
Member EMC Industries association (EMCIA) 2003-date
Member EMC Test Labs Association (EMCTLA) and its Working Group B 2001- date
Member Technical Panel, IET Functional Safety Professional Network 2003-date
Member Technical Panel, IET EMC Professional Network, 2001-date
Editor, Inside Functional Safety magazine 2010-date
Editorial Advisory board, Interference Technology magazine, 2007-date
Editorial Advisory board, Compliance Engineering magazine, 1998-date
Chair of IEE's EMC Professional Group (E2) 1997-1999

Publications
EMC for Printed Circuit Boards, Basic and Advanced Design Techniques, 2007,
ISBN: 978-0-9555118-0-6.

EMC for Systems and Installations, co-authored with Tim Williams, Newnes 2000, ISBN: 0-7506-4167-3.

The First 500 ‘Banana Skins’, October 2007, a compendium of 500 reports and anecdotes on electromagnetic interference incidents, originally published in a regular column in the EMC Journal since 1998.

Author of over 20 EMC Guidebooks, available from www.reo.co.uk/knowledgebase; plus a great many articles on EMC, and on EMC for Functional Safety, published in professional journals and trade magazines in the USA, UK, China and Australia, including five multi-part series published in the EMC Journal (www.compliance-club.com):
• Design Techniques for EMC (6 parts, 14 Issues, 2006-8)
• Advanced PCB Design for EMC (8 parts, 11 Issues, 2004-5)
• EMC Testing (6 parts, 7 Issues, 2001, co-authored with Tim Williams of Elmac Services)
• EMC for Systems and Installations (6 parts, 2000)
• Design for EMC (6 parts, 1999)

Papers
Very many papers (details available) on EMC, and on EMC for Functional Safety, presented at a wide range of EMC and/or safety symposia, conferences, colloquia, and seminars in 4 continents, including those organised by:
IEEE EMC Society (USA)
IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society (USA)
Euro-EMC
ERA Technology (UK)
IET (UK, used to be the IEE)
EMC-Zurich
EMC Society of Australia
Safety-Critical Systems Club (UK)
EMC-UK
EMERC (ElectroMagnetic Environment Research Center, South Korea)

Independent EMC and Safety consultant since 1990

Contact address:

Cherry Clough Consultants
Attn: EurIng Keith Armstrong
9 Bracken View
Brocton
ST17 0TF, Stafford
Staffordshire, United Kingdom

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