Future trends of electrical safety testing — Production electrical safety testing

Abstract

A common trend in electrical safety testing over the last several years is more stringent production line testing. Generally, only dielectric withstand and continuity tests are run as 100% routine production line testing. Equipment manufacturers have shifted away from these tests in favor of additional testing. The reason is manufacturers are performing risk analysis on product assembly procedures and determining that extra safety tests are warranted as a means of risk mitigation. New generations of production line test systems are more similar to laboratory testing systems. As a result, the more traditional laboratory testing requires a more streamlined setup to be effectively integrated into an automated setting.