IEEE Standards Association Standards Board Secretarys Report

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IEEE Standards AssociationStandards
BoardSecretarys Report

• 30 March 2006
• Piscataway, NJ, USA

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Contents

• Staff Update
• Goals for the Year
• Feature Report Arc Flash Project
• SUE VOGEL

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Staff Update

• NEW Sherry Hampton, Administrator, Governance
• NEW Lisa Yacone, Administrative Assistant,
  Publishing Programs
• NEW Patricia Sulzer, Administrator, Membership
• PROMOTION Christina Sahr, Technical Project
  Manager, reporting to Bob LaBelle
• CHANGE Penny Stanton, Electronic Balloting
  Specialist, reporting to Sue Vogel
• CHANGE Mary Lynne Nielsen, Senior Manager,
  Corporate Programs
• CHANGE David Ringle Mr. PP
• CHANGE Jennifer Longman, Managing Editor,
  Standards Information Industry Publishing
  reporting to Jerry Walker
• CHANGE Colleen Crary, Marketing Manager, IEEE-SA
  Programs

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2006 Goals

• 1) Maintain a quality standards program, in terms
  of policy, process, products, services, and
  financial performance.
• 2) Manage the IEEE-SA transition to an
  organization with three major lines of business
  individual program, corporate program, and
  related businesses.
• 3) Support a dynamic international strategy,
  responding to shifting political and commercial
  climates and ongoing industry requirements.
• 4) Launch formal risk assessment discipline in
  response to legal and fiscal exposures.
• 5) Proactively address abuse of the individual
  standards process by corporations.
• 6) Participate in the development and rollout of
  such IEEE-wide programs as BMS, Search Engine,
  and Web Initiative.
• 7) Ensure that IEEE-SA has a patent policy that
  protects the IEEE and serves its major customers.
• 8) Implement the phased rollout of OSS (Optimized
  Standards Services).
• 9) Launch new pre- and post-development products
  and services with net positive business models.

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Arc Flash
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IEEE/NFPA Collaboration on Arc Flash Phenomena

• Sue Vogel
• Manager, Technical Committee Programs

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Background

• Standards Involved
• IEEE Std 1584-2002, IEEE Guide for Performing Arc
  Flash Calculations
• Scope This guide provides techniques for
  designers and facility operators to apply in
  determining the arc-flash hazard distance and the
  incident energy to which employees could be
  exposed during their work on or near electrical
  equipment.
• NFPA 70E, Standard for Electrical Safety in the
  Workplace, 2004 Edition
• Scope This standard addresses those electrical
  safety requirements for employee workplaces that
  are necessary for the practical safeguarding of
  employees in their pursuit of gainful employment.
  

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Background

• Identification of an opportunity
• Standards did not talk to each other
• Volunteer turf
• Respective revisions beginning in 2003competing
  for same fundraising dollars and volunteer
  resources
• Likelihood of project creep/overlap
• IEEE and NFPA staff and volunteers working
  together is a landmark event

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Initiation

• IEEE took initiative to open discussions with
  NFPA
• Both organizations saw a need to get together
• Judy and Sue visited NFPA March 2004
• Engaged key volunteers in discussions
• First Steering Committee meeting July 2004
• MOU signed November 2004

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Steering Committee

• IEEE
• Ben Johnson, Co-Chair
• Bruce McClung, IEEE 1584 co-chair (retired Dow)
• Jim Pauley, VP, Industry Govt Relations,
  Square D Company/Schneider Electric (replaced
  George Gregory 6/2005)
• Sue Vogel

• NFPA
• Jack Wells, Co-Chair
• VP Corporate Dev., Pass Seymour/Legrand
• Ray Jones, NFPA 70E Chair, (retired DuPont)
• Vince Saporita, Cooper Bussman/Cooper Power
• Bob Vondrasek, NFPA VP
• Mark Earley, NFPA Asst VP

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Steering Committee

• Mission Statement
• To establish a collaborative initiative
  (including necessary research assessing arc flash
  phenomena), between the IEEE and the NFPA to
  produce arc flash standards. These standards will
  provide methods for assessing hazards and provide
  requirements for practical safeguarding of
  employees in the workplace.
• Objectives
• To establish a formal agreement between IEEE and
  NFPA to enable the funding and management of
  needed research projects.
• To establish a research project that addresses
  the needed information to provide more complete
  understanding of the arc fault phenomena
• Establish a planning committee to prepare more
  specific objectives for the research project

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Collaboration Structure
Work is completed
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RTPC Charter

• The IEEE/NFPA Steering Committee has established
  a Research and Test Planning Committee (RTPC) to
  prepare a specific research and test plan to
  provide information about the nature of arcing
  faults. In addition, the RTPC will develop
  proposals for common definitions for IEEE and
  NFPA arc flash-related standards.
• The main objective for this research and testing
  will be to provide adequate and scientifically
  verifiable data to IEEE and NFPA standards and
  code processes to enable the development of
  effective safeguards for electrical arc flash
  safety
• The specific research and testing will attempt to
  predict the various forms of energy to which a
  person might be exposed during an arcing fault

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Research and Testing Planning Committee (RTPC)

• 19 members from IEEE and NFPA/industry affiliated
  activities (DuPont, Dow, UL, Duke Energy, Square
  D, OSHA, NIOSH/CDC, OPG, etc.)
• 7 Task Groups formed and charges identified
• 192-page Research and Test Plan issued August
  2005 to Steering Committee
• Confidentiality requested from RTPC members

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Testing Procedures and Protocols (TPP) Committee
Charge

• To prepare specific details of the test policies,
  procedures, and protocols for conducting the
  extensive research described in RTPC report of
  July 28, 2005
• The TPP issued a 25-page detailed report
  indicating their recommendations for implementing
  the test plan (RTPC report) and priority plans
  based on funds raised

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Resource Development Ad Hoc

• Chaired by Jack Wells
• A prospectus and cover letter has been developed
  and printed
• Solicitation list developed
• Solicitation levels identified
• Platinum - 500k
• Gold - 250k
• Silver - 50k or less
• General - lt50k

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Funding Goal

• Six different programs have been developed, based
  on priorities, to conduct the most beneficial
  test and research program given the funding
  available
• These programs extend from
• 6.5 million and over 500 laboratory test days
  to conduct all of the work recommended by the
  RTPC Report, to
• 2.5 million and about 300 laboratory test days
  to conduct a limited test and research program

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Future Actions

• A 3-year fundraising effort
• beginning with a 6-month program starting in the
  fourth quarter of 2005
• followed by 2-1/2 years of cash contributions
• The Project Manager can be hired and start work
  after, when sufficient funding is available
• The test program can then be completed in 2-1/2
  years, finishing in 2009
• Other activities, such as the development of an
  engineering based model could take up to 5 years,
  completing in 2012

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Path Forward

• Appointments being made with major potential
  contributors
• First contribution received at IEEE Electrical
  Safety Workshop, February 2006

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Benefit to Industry

• The deliverable for this collaboration is
  information to be used to enhance IEEE 1584 and
  NFPA 70E, separately but collaboratively
• Not a joint development effort

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Questions?

• Industry is anticipating the output of this joint
  research and testing effort
• Thank you!