EMS - ONLINE LIVE ESD MONITORING SYSTEM
100% Live ESD Compliance. Zero Compromise
RDL EMS Online Live ESD Monitoring Solution continuously monitors operator wrist-strap resistance and verifies the grounding integrity of ESD-protected work surfaces in real time. The system ensures uninterrupted, 100% monitoring of both personnel and workstations, enabling proactive detection of ESD faults, minimizing electrostatic risks, and maintaining process stability in electronics manufacturing environments.
Why Live ESD Monitoring System is Required?
Equipment, furniture, clothing and other common items in today’s workplace can store thousands of volts in electrostatic charge But only 25 electrostatic volts are required to permanently harm an integrated circuit (IC's). The expenses can be devastating when SMT businesses fail to take into account the risk because they are unable to see them.
In the article, The “Real” Cost of ESD Damage it is noted that ESD losses are between half a billion to five billion dollars every year! While businesses continue to overlook these technical issues in order to cut spending, the problem continues to worsen. It is possible that if the topic were better understood, the risks would not be overlooked every year during the budget review.
ESD & Semi Conductor Devices
- ESD or Electrostatic Discharge is a sudden surge of electricity between two electrically charged objects. Contact, an electrical short or dielectric breakdown is the typical cause. During these natural occurrences, electrical currents can travel to the ground.
- A current can travel between the PN junctions on integrated circuits to reach ground.
- This current flow will burn holes visible to the naked eye in an integrated circuit, with evidence of heat damage to the surrounding area.
- It is repeated discharge events that will degrade internal equipment components over time. While there is not a way to completely prevent these occurrences there are ways to reduce the risk of damage.
ANSI/ESD S20.20 Control Program
The ANSI/ESD S20.20 has become the industry standard in every high-tech industry, from telecommunications and aerospace to automotive and electronics. Any business can use it to ensure that working environments are protected from charges of 100v or more.
Implementing an ESD control program is vital for businesses that need to reduce or eliminate component failures and increase the quality of their products.
An ESD program offers the following benefits:
- Increases ESD awareness throughout the organization.
- Improves the standard to which all processes are held.
- Saves money.
- Reduces failures and necessary.
- Ensures you’re working at the same standard as others in your industry.
- Offers proof to potential clients of your quality.
- Increases your marketability.
