electrical safety, safety| January 18, 2021| Post by: LBIES Staff

LBIES’s Electrical Safety Awareness Blog Series Part 1

Proper Electrical Safety Awareness is Key to a Safe Working Environment Welcome to our three part blog series on electrical safety awareness! LBIES has been in the safety consulting industry for over 30 years and has seen every conceivable situation encompassing the best and worst practices of electrical safety on the job sites we have [...]

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 [...]

ce marking, cemark, lbies, services| November 30, 2020| Post by: LBIES Staff

LBIES Offers Quick CE Mark Evaluations for Your Equipment

Shipping Your Equipment to Europe Should be Painless. When seeking a company to perform CE Mark Evaluations for equipment you want to have shipped and used overseas in Europe, it is important to take into account the engineering capabilities and rush timing that a company such as Lewis Bass International Engineering Services can bring to [...]

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 [...]

semi, SEMI report, SEMI S2| November 9, 2020| Post by: LBIES Staff

LBIES’s SEMI S2/S8 Evaluations Ensure Operational Safety and Serve as a New Buyer’s Safeguard

What Are The SEMI S2/S8 Guidelines And What Do They Evaluate? SEMI S2/S8 Guidelines were created by the leaders of the SEMI industry to ensure every piece of equipment is compliant to regulatory requirements and is checked against a high standard of safety. The SEMI standards encompass topics ranging from fire protection, electrical hazard protection, [...]

lbies, services, thermal imaging, thermographer| September 21, 2020| Post by: LBIES Staff

When to consider implementing an annual thermographic inspection for your business

Thermographic inspections sound more complex than they really are. A Thermographic inspection makes use of specially designed infrared cameras to generate images that show surface heat variations. The images captured from inspecting tools, or electrical components are called thermograms. Thermograms visually show abnormally hot electrical panels, electrical components, and the heat signatures caused by excessive [...]

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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