NI premiers RoHS-compliant products
-- Test & Measurement World, 6/22/2006 7:52:00 AM
National Instruments has released several products that comply with the NI Hazardous Substances Reduction initiative. The NI initiative is a voluntary program modeled after the European Union Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive, which restricts the use of harmful substances such as lead, mercury, and cadmium in new equipment.
A newly compliant instrument control system and a data-acquisition system are the company's first RoHS-compliant products released in 2006. Specifically, these products include the PCI-GPIB plug-and-play IEEE 488 interface, GPIB-ENET/100 Ethernet-to-GPIB controller, PCI-6289 M Series data-acquisition board, SHC68-68-EPM shielded cable, and SCC-68 terminal block. NI also offers RoHS-compliant GPIB interface chips.
The European Union RoHS directive restricts the use of lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBB), or polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) in new electrical and electronic equipment put on the market in the European Union after July 1. The RoHS directive applies to eight categories of electrical and electronic equipment, but excludes products in Category 9, Monitoring and Control Instruments, under which NI products fall.
National Instruments, www.ni.com/environment/rohs.
