- April 3, 2019
- NEMA Communications
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This piece was originally published in the March/April 2019 issue of electroindustry.
The new Zurich North America headquarters in Schaumburg, Ill., was designed to be a creative and collaborative work environment as well as set a Standard for future Zurich offices. A new integrated lighting and shading control solution automatically monitors and adjusts daylight and electric light to help maximize the comfort and productivity of its employees throughout the corporate campus.
Challenge
As part of the planning process, Zurich management surveyed employees, who
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- April 1, 2019
- NEMA Communications
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This piece was originally published in the March/April 2019 issue of electroindustry.
Pekka Hakkarainen: Vice President, Government and Industry Relations, Lutron Electronics Company, Inc.
Building systems are designed to be smarter, more efficient, and more agile than ever before. With the rapid evolution of smart lighting control, automated shading, and daylighting solutions, the conversation among owners, facility managers, and end users is changing to focus on the total building experience and how it affects productivity, well-being, and long-term property value.
System providers are
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- March 29, 2019
- NEMA Communications
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This piece was originally published in the March/April 2019 issue of electroindustry.
Scott Ziegenfus, Manager of Government and Industry Relations, Hubbell Lighting
Networked lighting systems in commercial and industrial applications are quickly becoming the industry’s new normal. These systems often integrate with a building management system and regularly use a building’s IT infrastructure in which sensitive corporate information flows. That naturally begets questions about security risks and IT compatibility.
Purpose-built protocols such as BACnet® and the introduction of the new BACnet Secure Connect
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- March 27, 2019
- NEMA Communications
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This piece was originally published in the March/April 2019 issue of electroindustry.
Craig DiLouie, LC, CLCP
Mr. DiLouie is Education Director for the Lighting Controls Association, a council of NEMA dedicated to educating the public about advanced lighting control.
According to a study by the DesignLights Consortium,1 networked lighting controls can reduce energy consumption by an average of 47 percent. That makes control a powerful tool in managing energy costs, but it captures only a small fraction of its potential value in enhancing
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- March 25, 2019
- NEMA Communications
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This piece was originally published in the March/April 2019 issue of electroindustry.
David Richmond, Program Manager, Lighting Products and Systems, NEMA
The ANSI Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) C136 is publishing two new outdoor lighting Standards: ANSI C136.42-2019 Solid State Lighting Retrofit Kits and ANSI C136.48-2018 Wireless Networked Lighting Controllers.
ANSI C136.42 defines the mechanical and electrical requirements for transforming installed high-intensity discharge roadway lighting and area luminaires to solid-state roadway and area luminaires. This Standard is limited to non-screw base retrofit kits only.
ANSI
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- March 23, 2019
- NEMA Communications
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This piece was originally published in the March/April 2019 issue of electroindustry.
Philip Squair, Vice President of Government Relations, NEMA
The 116th Congress convened on Thursday, January 3, 2019, with a bit of a hangover. Since December 22, 2018, certain portions of the federal government had been conducting only essential services because their authorized funding had run out. Of course, the political maneuvering continued through the holiday season.
The partial shutdown affecting employees of the Agriculture, Commerce, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development,
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- March 22, 2019
- NEMA Communications
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This piece was originally published in the March/April 2019 issue of electroindustry.
Shirley Leviton, a beloved leader in the electrical industry, passed away on January 3. Mrs. Leviton was an active member of the board of directors of Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc., and wife of the company’s former CEO and former NEMA Board member, the late Harold Leviton.
“The many employees and people in the industry who came in contact with her sensed her compassion, elegance and intellect,” Leviton Manufacturing Co. said
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- March 20, 2019
- NEMA Communications
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This piece was originally published in the March/April 2019 issue of electroindustry.
Andrew Kuhls-Gilcrist, Chair, MITA Interventional Fluoroscopy Working Group; Senior Manager, XR/VL, Canon Medical Systems USA, Inc.
A patient suffering from a heart attack is wheeled into the emergency room of a busy hospital. The doctor calls for an emergency angioplasty to quickly open the blocked artery and reduce the amount of damage to his heart. ER workers set up and switch on an interventional fluoroscopy system, which will guide the
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- March 18, 2019
- NEMA Communications
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This piece was originally published in the March/April 2019 issue of electroindustry.
Muhammad Ali, Program Manager, NEMA
Work continues to move forward in international electromagnetic compatibility lighting Standards after numerous updates were added last year. Some of the major changes in the 9th edition of CISPR 15:2018, which was published in May, include:
Radiated disturbance limits in 300 MHz to 1 GHz range
New definitions for lighting equipment, functional earth, and protective earth
Introduction of three basic ports: wired network ports, local wired ports, and
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- March 16, 2019
- NEMA Communications
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This piece was originally published in the March/April 2019 issue of electroindustry.
Clockwise, from top left: Joseph Eaves, Assistant Vice President, Government Relations; Craig Updyke, Director, Trade & Commercial Affairs, Government Relations; Michael Erbesfeld, Program Manager, Lighting Systems Standards; Mark Kohorst, Director – Environment, Health & Safety, Government Relations; David Richmond, Program Manager, Lighting Products & Systems, Operations; Karen Willis, Industry Director, Lighting; Alex Boesenberg, Senior Manager of Regulatory Affairs, Government Relations; Madeleine Bugel, Program Manager, State and International Government Relations.
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- March 15, 2019
- NEMA Communications
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This piece was originally published in the March/April 2019 issue of electroindustry.
Karen Willis, Industry Director, Lighting Systems Division, NEMA
The NEMA Lighting Systems Division, made up of five NEMA Product Sections, is a cohesive and collaborative group of Member organizations. The semiannual meetings of the Sections are well-attended, as are two Divisionwide forums conducted during the week, with Members initiating projects and having multiple cross-section discussions. It is this environment that produces the organic growth of collaborative thought.
Members of the Lighting
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- March 13, 2019
- NEMA Communications
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This piece was originally published in the March/April 2019 issue of electroindustry.
Chris Holstein, Vice President of Product Management, Universal Lighting Technologies
In our technologically advanced society, many things that make our lives better often go unnoticed as a part of our daily routines. One advanced technology we all experience in multiple ways every day is light.
Change with the Times
For a number of years, the lighting industry focused on how to make available light more efficient and provide longer lifetimes. We
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- March 11, 2019
- NEMA Communications
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This piece was originally published in the March/April 2019 issue of electroindustry.
The notion of quality can be elusive. In the manufacturing world, quality typically connotes a degree of excellence or a measurable Standard by which we compare like items. To a consumer, however, quality can be all of that and much more. Quality can involve personally subjective attributes, such as style and taste. In the lighting world, both types of quality play an important role in our daily lives.
Before 1925
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- March 8, 2019
- NEMA Communications
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This piece was originally published in the March/April 2019 issue of electroindustry.
By Morgan Pattison, Ph.D.
A principal of SSLS, Inc., Morgan Pattison is Senior Technical Advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy Solid-State Lighting Program and lead author of the DOE Solid-State Lighting R&D Opportunities document.
The development of electric light in the 19th century improved efficiency, made lighting safer, reduced costs, and enabled unforeseen additional benefits. Today we are undergoing another major lighting revolution, similar in scale, thanks to LED technology.
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- February 27, 2019
- NEMA Communications
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This piece was originally published in the January/February 2019 issue of electroindustry.
Charles W. Denny, a Falk Award recipient and former Member of the NEMA Board of Governors, died in November 2018, leaving a legacy of technological and trade achievement, marketing and managerial excellence, and dedication to his family.
In presenting the Falk Award in 2001, then–NEMA Chairman Peter McIlroy called him “a hardworking leader who is committed to doing the right things for his company and for the industry.”
In 1960, Mr. Denny began
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- February 25, 2019
- NEMA Communications
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This piece was originally published in the January/February 2019 issue of electroindustry.
Kevin J. Cosgriff, NEMA President and CEO
As highlighted in this issue, where and how we get our power is changing. We still rely on large power plants, but rooftop solar panels, wind farms, and other sources are emerging in the market. Members of the NEMA Utility Products & Systems Division expect that this model of more distributed generation closer to where power is consumed—along the edge of the network, rather than
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- February 22, 2019
- NEMA Communications
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This piece was originally published in the January/February 2019 issue of electroindustry.
Upon returning from attending their first annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), new staff with the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA), a division of NEMA, shared their experiences.
ZACK HORNBERGER, DIRECTOR, CYBERSECURITY & INFORMATICS, MITA
RSNA touts itself as the biggest medical imaging event in the United States, and it lives up to that hype in spades. It was an excellent opportunity to learn more about the devices
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- February 20, 2019
- NEMA Communications
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This piece was originally published in the January/February 2019 issue of electroindustry.
Ann Brandstadter, Manager, Standards Publications and Marketing, NEMA
NEMA GMOD 1-2018 Reviewing the Business Case and Cost Recovery for Grid Modernization covers grid modernization investments, summarizes the benefits of grid technologies, and documents cost recovery mechanisms and business cases. It is available at no charge to NEMA Members and to the general public in hard copy and electronic download for $100 at www.nema.org/grid-modernization-report.
NEMA BE P1-2018 Building System Efficiency Modeling—Improving the Accuracy of
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- February 18, 2019
- NEMA Communications
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This piece was originally published in the January/February 2019 issue of electroindustry.
Craig Updyke, Director, Trade and Commercial Affairs, NEMA
As noted in “Outlook for 116th Congress” (page 16), Congress is expected in 2019 to consider the new U.S.–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), intended as a modernization of and replacement for the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). At present, the prospects are colored by competing priorities: on one hand, demands for changes in the compromise agreement from members of Congress from both sides of
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- February 12, 2019
- NEMA Communications
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By Clark Silcox, NEMA General Counsel
There is a revolution in lighting underway, and it is being led by lighting consumers, retailers, and manufacturers. We have reached the energy savings goals for the Standard light bulb sought by Congress in 2007. The tipping point has already occurred, and there is no turning back. It is not about to be “rolled back” by government regulation as a few have mistakenly argued.
Our colleagues in the energy efficiency advocacy community are asserting that the
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