Webinars
Electro Magnetic Applications, Inc. (EMA) hosts the Solving Electromagnetic Challenges series to explore proven solutions, emerging technologies, and engineering best practices for tackling today's toughest electromagnetic design problems.
Our next webinar is Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026
Lightning Certification, Reimagined: Simulation, Test, and Automation Under One Roof
Lightning certification has traditionally meant waiting until late in a program to find out whether an airframe meets its requirements. EMA is changing that timeline. Our portable lightning test capability travels to your facility, injecting the key waveforms called out in the governing airworthiness standards at low level directly into your airframe, giving you certification-relevant data on your schedule rather than a test range's.
But test is only the first step. Airframers need to know the lightning transients at safety-critical interfaces much earlier, while design decisions are still cheap to change. EMA's simulation tools predict those lightning levels well before hardware exists, and critically, we validate that simulation against your actual airframe (not a generic model), which is what certification credit requires. Once validated, that simulation becomes a tool you can use for both indirect effects (lightning's impact on electronics) and direct effects, including fuel tank ignition requirements, where EMA's dedicated ignition detection hardware identifies the certification level on your program.
Put together, this is what it means for EMA to act as your virtual E3 team: certification expertise, design expertise, simulation expertise, test expertise, and the equipment, software, and compute to back it all up, functioning as an extension of your own engineering team. And because EMA now builds on MCP APIs, we're the first E3 team that can automate your recurring workflows, simulation, data analysis, design review, so your process gets more efficient with every program, not just this one.
Join us Sept. 23 at 1 p.m. ET.
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.
