Rethinking the Role of Thresholds in Achieving ESD Compliance When Using Epoxy-Based Coatings
An article at InCompliance Magazine discusses some changes we might see in ESD Flooring. Read the full article HERE
Access Control and ESD Control
One of the tenants of a ESD Control Plan is controlling access to the ESD Protected Area. This is commonly accomplished by defining an area of a facility as the ESD Protected Area by taping off sections of the floor and placing signs to indicate that proper ESD control practices should be followed once an…
Guidelines for Cleaning Desco Products
The following are guidelines for cleaning Desco ESD control products. Please consider that health and safety always take precedent to ESD control. Confer with your company’s health and safety department for further clarification. Operators should not share products such as wrist straps, smocks, gloves or foot grounders. Operators should be responsible for cleaning the products…
See Video of How Wave Distortion Technology Works
This is How a Sewing Machine Works
Our Miami, FL and Rochester, NH factories sew smocks, chair covers, foot grounders and other products. This is how a sewing machine works pic.twitter.com/Ng8vswQn7C — How Things Work (@ThingsWork) October 29, 2019
Desco Product Demonstration at the 2019 EOS/ESD Symposium
Watch Desco’s Regional Sales Manager, Gregg Heckler, at the 2019 EOS/ESD Symposium discussing better compliance verification plan and how to control all electrical devices at the workstation with Desco’s Full Time Continuous Monitor. Watch Desco’s Inside Sales Rep, Kevin Silva, at the 2019 EOS/ESD Symposium discussing the SmartLog Pro and it’s new features. Please contact Desco…
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Reminder: Wireless Wrist Straps Still Don’t Work
The ESD Association‘s Resistance-to-Ground (Rtg) requirement for an operator wearing a wrist strap is < 3.5 X 107 ohms (ANSI/ESD S20.20). A wireless wrist strap will never meet this requirement. Wireless wrist straps claim to work by “making (a) body’s static electricity to discharge through discharge box.” Assuming that an operator was tribocharged to 10…
SelecTile ESD Floor Installation Video
Watch a short video provided by Static Stop on the installation process of their SelecTile™ product at Imagineering in Elk Grove, Illinois. ESD Systems is a SelecTile™ re-seller. The product is available in boxes of ten, 23.75″ x 23.75″ tiles (coin and flat) and pre-configured mat kits with edging. See available products HERE.
Desco Industries will be Closed on Monday May 27, 2019 in Observance of the Memorial Day Holiday
Desco Industries locations will be closed on Monday May 27, 2019 in observance of the Memorial Day Holiday. Customer service will be closed for the day and no orders will be processed for the day. Normal operations will resume on Tuesday May 28, 2019. Desco Industries Inc manufactures ESD control products and other production supply…
NEW Online ESD Course
The EOS/ESD Association is offering a new course (April 24-25) through their online academy titled “Device Technology & Failure for the Program Manager.” Presented by Terry Welsher of Dangelmayer Associates, the course provides an overview of the device technology used to provide ESD protection, ESD protection techniques, and Failure Analysis (FA) techniques to debug non-working…