Category: 3rd Party Field Labels

electrical safety, field evaluation, field evaluation services, field label, video| February 22, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

Video Premier: How Lewis Bass Performs Field Labeling

This Video is an Industry First We are pleased to announce that our first video showing one of our core services, 3rd party field labeling, is now live on YouTube this week. In this video, Lewis Bass engineers Doug Snow and Oleg Zholudev walk you through our proprietary 127 line item checklist for evaluating industrial [...]

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field label, nfpa 79, nfpa 790. nfpa 791| February 8, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

Machine Nameplates: The A-Z of NFPA 79 Requirements

The History and Components of a Nameplate Machine nameplates have a history dating back to their first use by St. Paul's Stamp Works, which issued their first identification nameplate to a local company in the mid 1920s. Much has changed since then. Nameplates are now a requirement for all consumer, industrial, medical, and high tech [...]

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electrical safety, sccr, short circuit current rating| January 11, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

Short Circuit Current Rating (SCCR) and Your Industrial Equipment

What is SCCR and why is it important for industrial safety? In the current National Electrical Code, the National Fire Protection Agency made changes to the ratings of industrial machines and control panels.  Short Circuit Current Rating, or SCCR, is now a required metric for the nameplates of tools and panels carrying line current. SCCR [...]

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EEENA| November 16, 2020| Post by: LBIES Staff

LBIES and Eurofins/Metlabs Enter Into Formal Cooperative Agreement for Field Labeling

Eurofins and Lewis Bass Have Some Exciting News Eurofins/Met-Labs (EEENA) signed a cooperative agreement with Lewis Bass International Engineering Services on November 1st, 2020. LBIES will support clients of EEENA with third party field labeling requests in continental North America as a subcontractor. Additionally, EEENA will support LBIES with lab assistance as needed in the [...]

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electrical safety, field label, lbies, services| August 12, 2020| Post by: LBIES Staff

What is Field Labeling?

So, what exactly is Field Labeling? Field Labeling is a term for a safety inspection performed on a client’s site on an installed tool which has undergone a series of electrical field evaluations to become compliant. For electrical equipment without a mark from a nationally recognized testing lab (NRTL), a field label can satisfy local [...]

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