Standards Articles by Nic Maennling, IEC Technical Committee

TC89 Fire Hazard Testing.

Nicolas N. Maennling is a Standards Consultant working out of Lanark, Ontario, Canada. He enjoyed a 29 year career as an Electro-Mechanical Technologist at Nortel Networks and all its predecessors plus Bell-Northern Research and latterly managed the ISO 9000 Certified Components Engineering Laboratory. He was downsized out of Nortel in 1994. In the late 1970s he was responsible for the initial laboratory work into assessing the relative flammability of electronic components used in Bell Telephone Central Switching Offices. This activity led to involvement in the standards committee IEC TC 89 Fire hazard testing. In 1991 he became convener of WG 12: Test flames and resistance to heat. Small scale heat and flame test methods. In 1993 he became International Secretary of TC 89.

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Nic Maennling
Secretary, IEC/TC 89
Standards Consultant
PO Box 110
85 Clarence Street
Lanark, Ontario  K0G 1K0, CANADA

Phone: +1-613-259-2548
Email: maennling@sympatico.ca

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