2 DAY MASTERCLASS

ATEX Compliant Electronic Design

Sept 19-20
10:00 AM CET
2 Seminar Days
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Need ATEX Compliance For Your Electronic Design?

Register Now For Our ATEX Masterclass!
This course is aimed at electronics and mechanical engineers who design equipment that requires Ex certification for operating in hazardous atmosphere.

The aim is to demystify ATEX/IECEx/Hazloc and shorten the steep learning curve in design and development of Ex products, reduce time to market, and help engineers using practical examples from our decades of practical experience in getting products certified.  

ATEX-Compliant Electronics Design is often depicted as something mysterious and very challenging. We want to give you the necessary basic knowledge and confidence to start designing an ATEX compliant electronic design, including the enclosure.

You will learn how to incorporate the necessary concepts and design techniques to be fully ready for your ATEX certification and approval with certainty.

 

Our Expertise

Over the course of 20 years of custom electronic ATEX and intrinsically safe design, our instructors learned all the ins and outs while designing real-life ATEX electronics. They will teach you how to read the ATEX standards and translate it into practical guidelines for your electronic design.
  • You will learn how to interpret the theoretical standards and apply it practically into your electronic design work.
  • You will see practical examples of battery applications, RF applications, enclosure design, ... All taken from real life ATEX certified examples. This will enable you to translate it quickly into your own designs.

The Challenges...

... you will face when you are designing equipment that requires Ex certification
  • Compliance requirements add various complications and limitations to equipment design.
  • Standards are usually vague and focuses on the result rather than how to achieve that result.
  • Design life cycle can double or triple, and R&D budget can be difficult to estimate.

In This Masterclass You’ll Learn

... the ins and outs from our instructors with 20 years of experience in custom electronic ATEX and intrinsically safe design. They will teach you how to read the ATEX standards and translate it into practical guidelines for your electronic design.
  • Summarise protection concepts and relevant standards with a focus on mechanical and electrical aspects.
  • Dissect the relevant Ex standards to extract useful information.
  • How to read the standard in a way that reflect on design methodology.
  • Practical examples of solving design challenges at an early design stage to reduce time to market.
  • Considerations for relevant ISO standards (QAN/QAR) that need to be in place to be able to manufacture Ex equipment.

Day 1 Overview

  • Intro
  • ​What is an explosive atmosphere (zones, gas, dust, LEL, UEL, flashpoint, AIT, MIC, MESG)
  • ​An introduction into where explosive atmospheres may be found and what the industry standardised terminology means
  • Break
  • ​Concepts of protection overview (Ex d, Ex i, Ex m, Ex p, Ex o, Ex q, Ex e, Ex s, etc)
  • ​How do we prevent electrical and mechanical equipment from becoming active sources of ignition?
  • Lunch break
  • ​Concepts of protection overview continued
  • ​Geographic differences (ATEX, UKEx, IECEx, USA, CAN, CN, RU, BR)
  • ​What do we need to do to sell our products in different regions of the world?
  • ​Break
  • ​USA Class Division vs Class Zone
  • ​Historical methods versus Internationally recognised methods
  • ​Type Approval vs Unit Approval vs Batch Approval – how many pieces of equipment are being made/shipped? The approval route will be different from 1 off to continuous production
  • ​QAN, QAR, NRTL Inspection – How do we ensure that the factory produces products that are the same as those proven to be non-incendive?
  • ​End

Day 2 Overview

  • Intro
  • ​Use of mixed concepts to achieve complex goals – As equipment gets more complex, so the routes to compliance get more complex
  • Break
  • ​Intrinsic Safety basics for Designers – how to overcome the basic pitfall in designing I.S. equipment.  How to rate components, what does the standard mean and how to interpret this
  • Lunch break
  • ​Examples of Circuit and Enclosure design – some basic circuits and how you can get to the right component values and board layouts
  • ​Break
  • ​Questions and review
  • ​End

Who’s Speaking!

Meet our instructors with decades of practical experience.
Peter Rawlinson | Director iTrackz |
Expert Safety Compliance
Peter has spent his entire working life in engineering, starting out as an apprentice electrician and working through from apprentice to draughtsman to test engineer within an electrical manufacturing background.
Since 1996, Peter has worked within the very niche field of equipment for use in explosive atmospheres, working for several test, inspection and certification bodies in roles from certification engineer to continent-wide manager of teams of engineers.

He has built up new notified bodies, regained suspended accreditations and sat on standards writing committees for a diverse range of topics from QA to Ex ia and areas from testing to training.
Waleed Elmughrabi | Director Smart IOT Solutions | Electrical Engineer
Waleed is an electronic design engineer with an MSc in Renewable energy. He started his career in electrical machines design and testing then preparing standards proposals revisions for DC-DC converters and Solar inverters.
He spent many years working in SMEs in the early days of the concept of autonomous vehicle designing and developing new flexible printed sensor technologies for low-cost roll to roll manufacturing. That was the entry point into ATEX design.

As Waleed’s TPMS designs were then used in the mining industry for Zone 0, he later started working as a consultant to help set up ATEX, IECEx, Hazloc manufacturing businesses from ground up and designed various ATEX IoT products using state of the art technology enabling industries to deploy wireless monitoring networks in hazardous areas.

Waleed’s design skills are focused around functional and critical safety, high speed circuits, power management, IoT, energy harvesting, precision measurements, DFM, cloud infrastructure, and system integration.

You Have Questions? We Have Your Answers...  

Here are some common questions we get about our masterclass.

Who is this online masterclass for?

Electronics and mechanical engineers who design equipment that requires Ex certification for operating in hazardous atmosphere.

I am just getting started with Ex certification, is this masterclass for me?

We want you to learn from our mistakes and ensure you can reduce your time to market. We encourage you to start learning about Ex certification as soon as possible.

I am an expert in electronics and have seen it all, will I learn something?

Sure! We are convinced people are never too experienced to learn. Our methodology might spark some ideas to further optimize your current design flow.

What is the experience of the instructors?

Our instructors have learned the ins and outs of Ex certification over decades. They will help to shorten the steep learning curve for your Ex certification projects.
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