Conductive, Dissipative, or Anti-Static Flooring?

Conductive, Dissipative, or Anti-Static Flooring?

You’re hard at work at your latest assignment. Your boss wants you to put together a complete plan for creating a large-scale electrostatic protection area (EPA) for a client who will be assembling various sensitive electronics and they want to avoid any risk of...
Building an Electrostatic Protected Area (EPA)

Building an Electrostatic Protected Area (EPA)

Almost everyone’s familiar with the image of a white “cleanroom” or “bunny suit.” They show up in just about every depiction of people working in computer facilities in popular entertainment, and it’s a highly sought after specialty ‘armor’ in the video game Fallout...
Why Do You Need ESD Shoes?

Why Do You Need ESD Shoes?

You’ve heard teachers say, “Any question is a good question, so ask away!” So, here’s a question…”Why Do I Need ESD Shoes?” Before we answer that, let’s briefly review electrostatic discharge first. Electrostatic...

Are ESD shoes and Conductive shoes the same thing?

  Q: Are ESD shoes and Conductive shoes the same thing? A: There are two types of ESD shoes, Static Dissipative and Static Conductive. The Static Conductive shoe will guarantee a combined resistance of personnel and footwear of less than 1.0E6 Ohms.  I have a...

We don't need no stinking wrist straps, do we?

Q: I have read the White Paper 1: A Case for Lowering Component Level HBM/MM ESD Specifications and Requirements and found the ESD Control Programs and Resulting Data (Chapter 1, Page 20-23) particularly interesting. Assuming a production environment with ESD...