Are You Using the Right Level of ESD Protection

The need for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection is drilled into production workers from day one in most electronics manufacturing facilities and multiple layers of protection are typically used.

The team at SigmaTron's facility in Chihuahua, Mexico, recently studied what types of packaging and processes provide the most value in terms of ESD protection during the pack/unpack process. The primary goal was to understand if packaging or processing deficiencies were creating defect opportunities in either the packing process at the EMS facility or the unpack process at an OEM's facility, and implement appropriate corrective action. A secondary goal was to utilize the design of experiments (DoE) data to optimize packaging decisions so that products were appropriately protected by the right level of ESD protection.

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