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UL Recognized as Approved Body to Issue ECAS-UAE Conformity Mark By: Mohamed Amer & Mahmoud El-Jechi / Engineer Project Associates
2015 • ISSUE 2
Letter from BrianPage 2
Education and TrainingPage 2
Workshop – Designing for Compliance to UL 60730 Page 2
Standards CornerPage 4-5
UL Offers RedLine StandardsPage 6
Cycle Development IndependencePage 7
Four Week GuaranteesPage 9
TradeshowsPage 11
The UL Middle East team is pleased to announce that UL has become an approved body to issue the UAE’s Conformity Assessment Scheme (ECAS) with the Emirates Standards Authority (ESMA). This achievement was a result of the true collaborative efforts between our GMA team, finance, and the regional team and their whole year’s hard work. UL is now the fourth approved entity, along with SGS, IMQ and KTL. The Emirates Conformity Assessment Scheme is a product certification scheme implemented with the following objectives:
• Providing health, economic, safety, and environmental protection helping to ensure that services and products conform with relevant UAE Standards
• Help ensure that only the mandatory products identified by the members of the Cabinet are entering the UAE Market
• Help ensure that products manufactured in the UAE are at par with the products manufactured in other countries
A L S O I N T H I S I S S U E
F E A T U R E D A R T I C L E
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Navigating & Capitalizing on Retailer Sustainability Programs to Drive Business ValueBy Jennifer Beech / Marketing Manager II
According to stated company goals, by 2017, 70% of products sold in U.S. Walmart and Sam’s Club stores will be purchased from suppliers participating in Walmart’s Sustainability Index program.1
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Who says that you have to choose between quality and speed when bringing products to the marketplace? With UL, you don’t have to compromise quality to get safer products to market quickly. We recognize that any delay in the product development process can lead to missed opportunities and lost revenue which is why in North America we are introducing guaranteed certification turnaround times for controls, pool & spa equipment, commercial cooking, pumps, tools, and garden appliances, as well as HVAC/R equipment. Look for more details about this exciting new process in this issue.
Kind Regards,
Brian Ferriol Director, Global Appliances and HVAC/R
Education and TrainingA Letter from Brian
Workshop – Designing for Compliance to UL 60730: Automatic Electrical Controls for Household and Similar UseThis two-day workshop provides you with the opportunity to learn the key points of UL 60730. You will also be able to identify the key differences between UL 60730 and IEC 60730 after completing the course. And you will gain a better understanding of the process for submitting a control for investigation within the scope of UL 60730-1. A copy of the UL 60730, 4th Edition Standard is included with your workshop materials (a $452 USD value).
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At UL, our goal is to help you develop safe, useful products that meet and exceed your customers’ needs. You’ll find a variety of training courses taught by qualified instructors. Find a full list of scheduled public workshops and online courses here.
Safety of Household and Similar Electrical Appliances; General Requirements, IEC 60335-1, 5th Edition 10/20/2015 Chicago, IL
Knowing how to use IEC 60335-1, 5th Edition effectively in a product’s design phase is critical to its certification and acceptance within the global marketplace. This two-day technical workshop will give you in-depth exposure to essential topics such as spacing and insulation requirements, supply connections, component requirements and performance test criteria.
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Applied Safety Science and Engineering Techniques (ASSET)™ 9/29/2015 San Jose, CA 11/10/2015 Northbrook, IL
The two-day course on Applied Safety Science and Engineering Techniques merges Safety Science and Hazard Based Safety Engineering principles within the overall framework of a safety management process. The objective of this ASSET Process is to achieve, maintain and continuously improve safety.
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This approval opens new markets for UL regionally and globally in new sectors, such as cosmetics, chemicals, small appliances, and power tools. We are now ready to serve customers who are exporting to the UAE.
Products that require ECAS include the following appliances:
• Electric storage water heaters
• Microwave ovens
• Clothes washing machines and clothes dryers
• Stationary electric cooking stoves, ranges, hobs, and ovens
• Refrigeration appliances for household use
• Room air conditioners
• Fans and fan systems
• Electric drinking water dispensers
• Dishwashers
• Food waste disposals
• Room heaters
• Range hoods
• Instantaneous water heaters
• Pumps
• Portable tools
Click here for a full list of regulated products >
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Navigating & Capitalizing on Retailer Sustainability Programs to Drive Business Value
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The implementation of this program represents a unique opportunity for suppliers to demonstrate their commitment to sustainability, encourage deeper collaboration with retailers, and potentially become a Preferred Walmart Supplier. Used to understand, monitor, and enhance the sustainability of its supply chain and products sold in its stores, participation in programs like Walmart’s Sustainability Index is only the first step in building healthier supplier/retailer relationships.
How UL Can Help
Our Global Market Access team can help you achieve compliance by identifying applicable requirements for your specific product or technology feature to comply with current regulations in safety, EMC, wireless, and energy efficiency. For more information, visit our Global Market Access website or contact our experts via email at [email protected].
These updates are for informational purposes only and are not intended to convey legal or other professional advice.
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UL 250 – Household Refrigerators and Freezers (Bi-National Standard with Canada)
• A proposed new edition is being prepared for ballot. Among several other proposals that will be considered by the STP is a new nichrome wire test. Based on the transition to the IEC-based requirements in UL 60335-2-24, it is intended that this will be the last revision cycle for UL 250.
UL 283 – Air Fresheners and Deodorizers• Proposed requirements to add testing to determine the
suitability of the mechanism of a device on a direct plug-in appliance that rotates to accommodate receptacle orientation was posted for STP ballot December 19, 2014, closing January 19, 2015. The associated revisions were published in the standard June 16, 2015.
UL 325 – Door, Drapery, Gate, Louver, and Window Operators• 24 proposals resulting from the meeting of STP 325 held in 2014
were moved to ballot in October of 2014. All 24 topics reached consensus and were published in the standard May 26, 2015.
UL 474 – Dehumidifiers• A proposal to add a test condition to ensure that component
temperature limits are not exceeded in the event of a refrigerant loss was recirculated December 19, 2014, closing January 19, 2015. The proposal maintained consensus. A new proposed supplement for an alternate path for electronic controls was posted for ballot November 28, 2014, closing January 12, 2015. That proposal reached consensus with no comments. The revisions associated with both proposals were published in June of 2015.
UL 484 – Room Air Conditioners• Proposals to add a new supplement for an alternate path for
electronic controls, and revisions to Supplement SA resulting from work done by the Joint Task Group (JTG) on Flammable Refrigerants were posted for STP ballot November 28, 2014, closing January 12, 2015. Both proposals maintained STP consensus through the end of the recirculation period, and they will be published in the standard during Q3 2015.
UL 507 – Electric Fans• A series of 12 proposal topics was posted for ballot December 5,
2014, with ballots and comments due January 19, 2015. All of the proposals reached consensus, but several comments were received. A recirculation of any revisions to the proposals based on the ballot comments will occur in Q3 2015.
STP 745 – Electric Tools• With the IEC transition to the new IEC 62841 series of standards
for hand-held and transportable tools and lawn and garden machinery, efforts are continuing to adopt and publish the associated UL 62841 parts, when appropriate, as the IEC editions are published.
• A proposal to revise the Standard for Stationary and Fixed Electric Tools to include requirements for an Active Injury Mitigation System (AIMS) was posted for ballot February 13, 2015, closing March 30. The proposal did not reach consensus.
• Several for proposals for UL 60745-2-13 (electric chainsaws) were posted for ballot February 13, 2015, closing March 30. The proposals include national differences covering battery-operated, top-handle chainsaws and battery-operated pruner saws. The proposals reached consensus and were published May 15, 2015.
UL 749 – Household Dishwashers (Bi-National Standard with Canada)
• The technical harmonization committee (THC) met several times during 2014 to review and discuss a series of new proposals. The THC completed their work, and the STP preliminary review was initiated January 28, 2015, closing for comments March 13. The THC is reviewing the preliminary review comments, and the STP ballot will be next (target Q3 2015).
By Joe Musso / Standards Program Manager
Standards Corner
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UL 858 – Electric Ranges• Proposed new requirements to address range stability, changes
on internal wiring for ranges, and a moisture/washing test were posted for ballot Q4 2014. All three proposals reached consensus. A proposal to add a coil surface cooking oil ignition test was moved to STP ballot, opening February 27, 2015, closing March 30. The proposal reached consensus. The revisions associated with all four proposals were published in the standard on June 18, 2015.
• Lastly, a new proposal for polymeric materials specifications and a nichrome wire test were posted for preliminary review January 23, 2015, closing February 6. Comments were received and are being reviewed prior to the proposal moving to ballot.
UL 923 – Microwave Cooking Appliances• A task group has developed a set of proposals covering
polymeric materials and other related items. The proposals were posted for ballot June 19, 2015, to be closing August 3.
UL 982 – Household Food Preparing Machines• A set of 21 proposal topics were posted for ballot in Q2 2014. All
of the topics reached consensus, and they were published in the new (7th) edition of the standard, June 10, 2015.
UL 1017 – Vacuum Cleaners, Blower Cleaners, and Household Floor Finishing Machines (Bi-National Standard with Canada)
• The 9th edition of UL 1017 was published April 13, 2015. A new revision cycle is in the early stage of development.
UL 1026 – Electric Household Cooking and Food Serving Appliances• A proposal to add a new supplement for smart-enabled cooking
appliances went to the STP for ballot April 17, 2015, closing June 16. The proposal reached consensus with no comments, and publication will be next (target: July 2015).
• Three new proposals related to slow cooker supply cords, separate action for stay-on function for toaster ovens, and redundant control based on food load ignition testing were circulated to the STP for preliminary review April 22, 2015, closing May 6. Comments were received, and are being reviewed by the proposal authors. They will be updated as appropriate before ballot (target: July 2015).
UL 1082 – Electric Coffee Makers and Brewing-Type Appliances• A proposal for the carafe handle security test was posted for STP
preliminary review May 29, 2015, closing June 26.
UL 1278 – Movable and Wall- or Ceiling-Hung Electric Room Heaters
• A proposal to add a new supplement for smart-enabled room heaters went to the STP for preliminary review Q2 2014. The comments are being considered by a task group formed for this purpose to further develop the proposal prior to moving to ballot. Based on the work still necessary, the ballot timeframe has not been determined.
UL 2157 – Electric Clothes Washing Machines and Extractors (Bi-National Standard with Canada)
• The proposed 3rd edition of UL 2157 was posted for ballot February 13, 2015, with a closing date of April 14. The proposed new edition reached STP consensus, but comments were received. The THC has reviewed the comments and has revised the document in preparation for final recirculation to the STP (target: July 2015).
UL 2158 – Electric Clothes Dryers (Bi-National Standard with Canada)
• The proposed 4th edition of UL 2158 was circulated for preliminary review March 20, 2015, closing April 3. The THC has reviewed the comments and has revised the document in preparation for STP ballot (target: July 2015).
UL 60335-2-24 – Household Refrigerators, Ice-Cream Appliances, and Ice-Makers (Tri-National Standard with Canada and Mexico)
• The CANENA technical harmonization committee (THC) membership has initiated review of the draft update to UL 60335-2-24 in accordance with the latest IEC version of the standard. It is anticipated that the proposals will be available for the North American consensus bodies to initiate their respective standards development processes in Q3 of 2015.
By Joe Musso / Standards Program Manager
Standards Corner
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Navigating & Capitalizing on Retailer Sustainability Programs to Drive Business Value
Retailers across the board are implementing supplier requirements for disclosure of sustainability information. As a result of these new requirements, organizations have the opportunity to leverage these programs to drive business.
Below are three ways suppliers participating in any of these retailer programs can drive value. Continuous Improvement
The score a supplier receives on retailer rating programs like the Sustainability Index matters. For instance, Walmart expects each supplier to demonstrate year-over-year improvements and to be able to present an improvement action plan at supplier meetings. Are you prepared to improve your score?
Market Differentiation
More retailers are expecting to integrate sustainability into purchasing decisions; in fact, UL Environment’s research indicates that three out of four purchasers surveyed have some sort of responsible purchasing policy, and most of the rest are expecting to adopt one. For instance, eventually every buyer at Walmart will have sustainability goals incorporated into their performance objectives. Scoring well on retailer rating systems like Walmart’s Sustainability Index allows you to stand out. Do you know how you compare to the competition?
Empower Consumer Choice
Consumers are seeking more sustainable products. By scoring well in these frameworks, you have the opportunity to influence consumer choice. The Sustainability Index is the basis of Walmart’s Sustainability Leaders program, which helps customers identify and purchase products from companies in Walmart’s online store that are considered to be leaders in sustainability. Suppliers that score the highest in their product category or receive 80% or better on the Index are awarded a Sustainability Leaders badge, which is displayed in the product description on Walmart’s website.
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Cycle Development IndependenceBy Keith Egger / Senior Project Engineer
Engineers and technicians responsible for appliance cycle development often find their activities restricted to the limits of existing control boards borrowed from production appliances until a new board that was specifically designed for their project becomes available. Likewise, their activities are often at the mercy of software development schedules. Test labs often require cycles with different behavior from cycles implemented for normal consumer use. In these circumstances, a configurable control platform provides the cycle development independence needed.
A configurable control platform provides cycle developers the tools they need to implement new sequences and adjust cycle parameters themselves without having to become software developers. A configurable control platform enables lab technicians to define custom cycles that only perform the phases of an appliance cycle that are necessary for a specific test. Appliances used in a lab to test detergents and other chemical additives require fixed, repeatable, determinate cycles that do not automatically adapt to specific load conditions, unlike many cycles provided on consumer appliances today. A configurable control platform allows such a lab to define a fixed cycle sequence.
A configurable control platform consists of both hardware and software elements. The hardware elements provide an interface to components on the appliance, such as motors, valves and sensors. Hardware elements consist of three general sub-systems: computation, input and output.
The computation sub-system needs adequate resources to accomplish four general tasks: read input signals, write output signals, execute cycle sequences, and drive a Human Machine Interface (HMI). Open-source hardware computation systems targeted to the Maker Community can provide inexpensive solutions with adequate resources for a configurable control platform. A personal computer using commercial laboratory data acquisition and control modules may be necessary for platforms with more sophisticated software or data acquisition requirements.
The input sub-system provides an interface to the appliance sensors, which typically fall into one of three categories: mechanical switches, semi-conductor switches, and analog devices.
Mechanical switches may connect directly to the computation sub-system if sensing current can be supplied from a power source operating at a voltage compatible with the digital inputs of the computation sub-system. Flow and position sensor outputs often appear as some form of a semi-conductor switch. These devices typically need a 5-volt power source and may require a pull-up resistor to provide a digital signal that switches between nominal 0 and 5 volt signal levels. The resistance of a thermistor changes with temperature and often provides analog temperature measurements in an appliance. Unfortunately, thermistors do not provide a linear temperature signal. However, placing the thermistor in a voltage divider circuit with an appropriate fixed-value resistor provides a reasonably linear voltage
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signal within a temperature range that is sufficient for many appliance applications. Water level can be either a set of digital switches indicating fixed levels or an analog signal. Analog level measurements are typically accomplished with pressure sensors. An inexpensive commercial pressure transmitter calibrated for inches or millimeters of water column provides a cost-effective method of providing this input signal.
For the output sub-system, relays and DC power supplies used for industrial automation can typically be used to operate solenoid valves, single-speed motors, and other actuators on an appliance. Digital outputs from most computation sub-systems do not supply enough current to directly drive a relay. But common relay driver chips from multiple semi-conductor manufacturers provide a convenient interface for operating relays from the computation sub-system. Variable-speed Induction and Brushless DC (BLDC) motors present more of a challenge. Fortunately, some semi-conductor manufacturers now provide development boards that can quickly determine motor parameters and be used to operate these high-tech motors. A serial communication link allows the computation sub-systems to send speed, direction and acceleration commands to the motor control board.
The major benefit of a configurable control platform comes from its software implementation. This software must provide configurable, intuitive, and re-useable elements that
allow easy definition of new cycles and quick modification of existing cycles. Likewise, the software must allow for the addition of new input and output signals and modification of parameters associated with existing signals. This flexibility allows the platform to adapt to changing requirements as product development progresses and to be useful from one project to the next.
Most appliances operate as a sequential processing device in which the appliance executes a cycle consisting of a series of steps. One common exception to the previous statement would be a refrigerator that continuously monitors temperature and operates the compressor as necessary to maintain a temperature set point. But even refrigerators contain sequential processes for defrost cycles and sequences for making and dispensing ice. Continuous operations like temperature control can be implemented as a sub-cycle process that is either enabled or disabled by the main cycle.
A cycle consists of a series of steps, and each step is divided into two parts: driving step outputs and monitoring step exit conditions. For example, a dishwasher-drying step might de-energize a drain pump motor, energize a wax motor to open a vent, energize a blower motor, and energize a heating element. The same step then monitors exit conditions, such as temperature and maximum step time, to determine when to begin processing a cool-down step. The same drying step also monitors the door switch and initiates
a pause step to de-energize all outputs when the dishwasher door opens.
Software developers will recognize a cycle as a state machine and each step in a cycle as a state. However, the rest of this article will continue to use the terms cycle and step.
Software implemented on a configurable control platform needs to allow engineers and technicians to define constituent elements of a cycle: a list of outputs to energize and de-energize at the beginning of the step and a list of step exit conditions, along with the next step to execute, when a particular exit condition becomes true. Engineers and technicians are typically comfortable using rows, columns, and worksheets of spreadsheet programs to organize and present information. A few structured and predefined worksheet templates can often serve as an adequate user interface for cycle definition in which a row defines one cycle step and the columns define outputs to drive and exit conditions to monitor. Such a layout in a spreadsheet resembles the timer charts associated with electro-mechanical controls. Macro capabilities of the spreadsheet program can be used to store cycle definitions in structured text files or a database server for easy retrieval by the configurable control platform sequence execution software.
Software implemented on a configurable control platform needs the ability to retrieve and execute a predefined cycle sequence.
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Cycle definitions stored in a structured text file require a minimum amount of computing resources for the sequence driver software to read cycle definition parameters for execution. More capable computation sub-systems may choose to store and retrieve cycle definition parameters from a database server or read parameters directly from a spreadsheet file. The configurable control platform sequence execution software uses cycle definition parameters to repeatedly drive step outputs and monitor exit conditions until the last step of the cycle moves to an idle step where the sequence execution software monitors HMI signals for the beginning of a new cycle.
The Human Machine Interface for operating a cycle may be simple or complex, depending on the amount of information presented to the operator during cycle execution. Three momentary pushbuttons connected as digital inputs can provide the start, pause, and cancel features on a typical consumer appliance. Cycle development activity typically requires the HMI to display additional information from the sequence execution software, such as a description of the current step in the cycle, remaining step time, sensor values, and feedback information from motor control units.
Available rapid prototyping tools and development boards with touch screen displays give inexpensive computation sub-systems the ability to use color graphic displays with multiple pages of information. Serial communication between the display board and the computation sub-system allows the display board to send messages for button pushes and parameter changes to the computation sub-system. Likewise, the computation sub-system transmits process information to the display board for presentation to the operator. The display board stores the static portion of graphic pages, while the computation sub-system bears only the burden of transmitting and receiving dynamic data.
Computation sub-systems with network communication may choose to use HMI units sold for industrial automation. Common industrial automation protocols are available as open source software for inexpensive computation sub-systems. These HMI units also store the static portion of the graphic pages, and the computation sub-system only processes dynamic information arriving from and sent to the HMI. Implementing a local web server on computation sub-systems with network communication allows any device with a web browser to provide an HMI. However this option requires the computation sub-system to store and process more of the information necessary to display a page on a web browser.
More capable computation systems may choose to store process data in a database server and use web server applications to retrieve process information from the database server and post user commands to the database server. This approach allows a great deal of flexibility and scalability, but it also requires multiple skill sets to implement and maintain the system.
Current technology allows design and implementation of simple, inexpensive, and configurable development systems that replicate the function of custom microcontroller-based control boards. These systems allow parallel development of the product and the production controls, which significantly reduces time to market. Configurable cycle definition reduces design iteration time by allowing engineers and technicians to modify cycle behavior without depending on software developers. For existing products, a configurable control platform provides a rapid way to evaluate changes to the product.
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Navigating & Capitalizing on Retailer Sustainability Programs to Drive Business Value
Improving Your Score Improves Your BusinessTo continuously improve your product and company scores in retailer rating systems year over year, you have to understand what gaps exists and where the greatest impact can be made as it relates to the frameworks themselves. Leveraging the core competencies of a partner can help you maximize these improvement opportunities.
UL Environment provides a comprehensive approach to product sustainability with deep insight into the review and development of The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that form the basis of Walmart’s Sustainability Index survey. Benchmarking and best-in-class insights help our clients understand where they fall on the sustainability spectrum within the industry, which can help them improve Sustainability Index scores. Our customized approach to strategy and program development will help suppliers understand how to embed sustainability more firmly and effectively throughout their company in ways that make sense for their organization. It will also help position them for future reporting success with Walmart’s Sustainability Index and other retailer rating systems.
Check out the latest webinar from UL Environment, Navigating Retailer Sustainability Requirements, where we discuss how retailer programs like these can impact your business and how you can be prepared to leverage the programs to drive opportunity – from supporting retailer relationships to driving positive business change and influencing consumer preference.1 Walmart Announces New Commitments to Drive Sustainability Deeper into the Company’s Global Supply Chain. Oct. 25, 2012
