Advanced Energy Helps Motor Manufacturers Around the World as Deadline Approaches

March 12, 2001

The November 2001 application deadline for EPACT compliance certification is fast approaching. Motor manufacturers around the world must meet this deadline or cease sales of motors in the United States. Advanced Energy can help, with application processing, as well as testing and NVLAP accreditation, most anyone on the globe.

We've already worked with companies in Chile, Korea, Malaysia, and Taiwan and are negotiating to do work for companies in Mexico, India, Australia, and Italy, for an operation in Spain. In Malaysia and Taiwan, we've helped clients to achieve NVLAP accreditation for their own test labs with zero discrepancies on their first audit, thus enabling them to complete their own testing. For our client in Taiwan, we are now processing their application for their certificate of compliance.

"We offer a complete breadth of services in the area of EPACT certification and motor test lab modification," says Ziba Kellum , senior motor systems engineer for Advanced Energy.

"We can do everything from making recommendations for specific lab upgrades to writing testing software to preparing labs for NVLAP accreditation to doing testing in our own NVLAP accredited test lab. Plus, we can lend customized assistance with the compliance certification application process."

A summary of Advanced Energy's certification assistance capabilities and related core competencies includes:

• Comprehensive understanding of EPACT regulations and requirements
• Thorough knowledge of requirements for NVLAP test lab accreditation
• Operation and management of only independent NVLAP accredited lab worldwide
• Ability to perform testing necessary for EPACT compliance certification
• Familiarity with use of computer-based Alternate Efficiency Determination Models (AEDMs)
• Ability to make test labs work better and more efficiently
• Ability to map out individual compliance certification plans from start to finish, with time and least cost analyses
• Ability to expedite compliance certification application process

Our expertise has actually helped shape EPACT in its final version such that all test procedures are clearly understood and uniformity is achieved amongst all testing laboratories. As the application deadline approaches, Advanced Energy stands at the ready, eminently qualified, to help motor manufacturers in the U.S. and around the world.

For more information on how Advanced Energy can assist you or your company with achieving EPACT certification, please contact Ziba Kellum at (919) 857-9032 or zkellum@advancedenergy.org . For an interactive question and answer session on EPACT, please consult EPACT Cues & Clues located on this website.