Cooper Bussmann, St. Louis, has developed the industry's first compliance software to help facilities comply with new electrical industry standards for determining the short-circuit current rating (SCCR) of industrial control panel assemblies. The Oscar compliance software eliminates the guesswork commonly associated with calculating the total SCCR of all individual components in a panel and reduces noncompliance issues that can result in shutdowns and delays.

Electrical industry standards, which were determined by the Underwriter's Laboratories UL508A and the 2005 National Electrical Code Article 409, require all electrical panels and assemblies to display nameplates with SCCR totals. By entering a component part number, Oscar taps its database of more than 50,000 online item part numbers to determine the assembly SCCR.

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