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Solving Electromagnetic Challenges: An EMA Webinar Series

Take part in EMA’s Solving Electromagnetic Challenges webinar series, where you will learn how to overcome the most pressing issues in the industry. Whether it's adapting to new standards, adopting new technologies and methodologies, or optimizing your designs and workflows, Solving Electromagnetic Challenges will give you the edge you need to succeed.


Our next webinar is Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025

Production-Grade, Full-Vehicle Electromagnetic Simulation Services

Modern vehicles, whether aircraft, automobiles, industrial systems, or oil and gas platforms, are more electrically complex than ever. Ensuring safe, reliable performance across all electromagnetic environments requires a level of modeling fidelity that most organizations cannot build in-house. EMA’s Services Team offers a unique, production-ready solution: creation of a full-fidelity digital twin of your vehicle, including its complete mechanical geometry, material stack-ups, and full Electrical Wiring Interconnect System (EWIS). Using your Mechanical CAD, material properties, and wiring data, EMA engineers develop a simulation-ready model with rigorous configuration control across every element.

This digital twin is built by the EMA Services Team using EMC Plus, the commercial simulation product we develop and rely on for high-fidelity analysis. Only EMA and EMC Plus together can create and solve system-level models with thousands of cables and all related structures, enabling accurate predictions of emissions, immunity or susceptibility, E3 (electromagnetic environmental effects), and RF interactions. This is not a one-off R&D effort. It is a true production capability designed to keep pace with real design cycles, providing a model that is ready when you need it and robust enough to support repeated use across evolving product designs. With EMA, engineering organizations gain the ability to predict real product performance with a complete, simulation-ready vehicle model that captures all the electromagnetic and structural complexity required for modern programs.

This webinar will show how EMA’s modeling services deliver unmatched fidelity, scalability, and repeatability for complex vehicles, and why this is the only viable path to a complete, high-accuracy electromagnetic digital twin.

Join us on Dec. 17 at 1 p.m. ET. Click here to get registered.

Speaker: Tim McDonald
EMA Co-CEO

Tim McDonald, PhD is Co-CEO at EMA. He is a leading expert in electromagnetic modeling and simulation, specializing in multiphysics solutions for EMC, power systems, and space environments. As a key contributor at EMA, Inc., he drives innovation in computational electromagnetics, developing advanced techniques for interference analysis, plasma physics, and high-power effects. With extensive experience in EMC Plus and Charge Plus, Tim has helped engineers tackle complex challenges in aerospace, energy, and manufacturing. He is passionate about bridging the gap between ease of use and high-fidelity physics, enabling engineers to model real-world electromagnetic interactions with confidence. Tim regularly presents at industry conferences, sharing insights into the latest advances in simulation and design optimization.


View our previous webinars here:

HFSS to EMA3D

EMA3D (now Ansys EMC Plus) 2021 R1 What’s New Webinar

Topic: EMA3D 2021 R1 What’s New Webinar Presenter: Tim McDonald, EMA President Abstract: In this webinar, Tim McDonald, PhD, will be going into more detail for the most anticipated updates: HFSS Field Link: ability to use HFSS near fields as source, import of harness description list (KBL) files, and exporting S-parameter models; As well as […]

Civil aircraft simulation

Guide to Civil Aircraft Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)

Topic: Guide to Civil Aircraft Electromagnetic Compatibility Presenters: Tim McDonald, EMA President Bill Martin, EMC Expert Abstract: We review the guidance in SAE ARP60493 for demonstrating that electrical and electronic systems installed on civil aircraft can operate without adversely affecting the operation of other aircraft electrical and electronic systems. This includes guidance for defining appropriate […]

Installed antenna performance and RFI

Installed Antenna Performance and RFI

Topic: Installed Antenna Performance and RFI Presenter: Matt Miller, EMA Principal Scientist II Chris Maholm, Dayton Granger Director of Business Development Abstract: Radio Frequency (RF) systems represent one of the most critical technology areas today. Without RF systems, all types of vehicles cannot navigate, communication cannot occur, advanced weapons cannot hit their targets, and the […]

EMC qualification

EMC Qualification Analysis to Electric units

Topic: Analysis to Predict Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Compliance of Units and Devices for Suppliers Presenter: Tim McDonald Abstract: Tier-1 suppliers of electronics units for aircraft, automobiles, or other platforms must meet electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) requirements. Platform integrators establish EMC requirements in order to ensure overall system compatibility. Almost always, the method of compliance to the […]

wind turbines

Using Simulation to Reduce Damage and Maximize Availability in Wind Turbine Applications

Topic: Using Simulation to Reduce Damage and Maximize Availability in Wind Turbine Applications Presenter: Justin McKennon Abstract: Lightning effects on wind turbine blades present significant challenges to manufacturers and operators. The industry is skewing heavily towards larger wind turbine blades and more remote locations, and these pose substantial logistical challenges in terms of accessibility, cost […]

Aircraft helicopter lightning strike

HIRF and Lightning Certification for VTOL Airtaxi

Topic: HIRF and Lightning Certification for VTOL Airtaxi Speaker: Giancarlo Guida Abstract: With Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) air taxis, the engineering community is once again called to support an emerging technology that could have an amazing impact on the way people and goods are transported allowing for safer and more environmentally friendly urban mobility. […]

Automotive EMC

Existing and Emerging Challenges Facing Automotive EMC

Topic: Existing and Emerging Challenges Facing Automotive EMC Presenter: Jonathan Nydell, President and Founder, JN Engineering LLC Abstract: Technical development has turned automotive systems into complex electrical and RF devices. Fully electric powertrains and the development of vehicle autonomy increases the need for active electrical components, complex interconnected systems, and the use of RF systems. […]

lightning striking an aircraft

How to Get Your Aerospace Platform Certified for Lightning

Topic: How to Get Your Aerospace Platform Certified for Lightning Presenters: Tim McDonald Giancarlo Guida Abstract: Lightning is a required environment for certification of many air and space platforms. The lightning requirement has a long history in transport aircraft. In addition, lightning requirements are often imposed on many novel applications including: Personal taxi aircraft Unmanned […]

Spacecraft charging simulations

Fully Coupled Internal Spacecraft Charging Simulations with EMA3D

Topic: Fully Coupled Internal Spacecraft Charging Simulations with EMA3D- Internal (now Ansys Charge Plus) Presenter: Bryon Neufeld Abstract: EMA3D®-Internal (now Ansys Charge Plus) is a fully 3D internal space charging software tool. It allows for a comprehensive internal space charging analysis to be performed almost entirely within a graphical user interface, including: sophisticated geometry import, […]

lightning aircraft model

Testing and Simulation to Achieve FAA Certification of Aircraft Fuel Tanks to Lightning

Topic: Testing and Simulation to Achieve FAA Certification of Aircraft Fuel Tanks to Lightning Presenters: Billy Martin Cody Weber Abstract: Failure is truly not an option when it comes to FAA certification of passenger aircraft. The bar for acceptance of testing and simulation is incredibly high. Would you like your engineering team to learn what […]

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