ESD Consulting and Documentation Services

Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) is the stealth killer of integrated circuits. You may never see it, feel it, or even know that it has occurred until it is too late. If you are in the business of producing integrated circuits, or populating printed wiring boards with them, then you already know that a robust ESD protective program is required.

Audit Considerations

Taken from the ESD Association Facility Certification Program Checklist

Do you have a documented Plan that addresses the Electrostatic Discharge Control Requirements?

Does the Plan include a Training Plan?

Does the Plan include a Compliance Verification Plan?

Are Grounding/Bonding systems used to ensure that ESDS items, personnel and any other conductors are at the same electrical potential?

Is access to ESD protected areas limited to trained personnel?

Visit the ESD Association website for a copy of the ESD 20.20 standard

ESD Products

Need help developing an ESD Control plan?

Need to have your current control plan audited?

Total Logical Concepts, your full service quality management system partner, is staffed by Certified ANSI/ESD 20.20 Assessors. ESD 20.20 is the American National Standard for the development of an electrostatic discharge control program for the production of electrical and electronic parts, assemblies and equipment.

Our goal, as your consulting partner, is to fully implement an ESD program that conforms to the standard AND integrates seamlessly into your established internal quality system requirements. We will help you document the control plan required by ESD 20.20, train your employees, and perform the compliance verification. We can even assist you in engaging a Registrar, certified by the ESD Association to bestow certificates of compliance.

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ESD sensitive devices are expensive. Replacing such devices that have failed internal tests, before leaving your facility, due to catastrophic in-house ESD damage, is costly. Most of them cannot be simply tossed out with the trash because they may contain constituent parts that are harmful to the environment, thus adding to your disposal costs.

Now think about devices with latent ESD damage. The devices may pass internal tests, and get to your customers, the ESD damage incurred during your internal process may not present until the device is in use. The costs associated with dissatisfied customers are much harder to measure, but such costs cannot be good for you bottom line.

"A properly designed and successfully deployed ESD Control program is a proven with an ROI of up to 1,000% per year. Another source reports that for every one in ESD control, ninety-five dollars comes back as money saved."