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'Choosing The Right ESD Flooring For Laboratory and Technical Environments' |
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Selecting esd flooring can be a confusing and daunting task, and not all ESD floors are equal. Antistatic and conductive floors perform differently depending on the application and environment, some require specialized footwear to be effective. This article reports on testing results of various esd floor types and the results may suprise you.
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Choosing The Right ESD Flooring For Laboratory and Technical Environments
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Article originally appeared in the May '05 issue of Conformity Magazine. |
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Designers of mission critical spaces such as 911
call centers, mission control command centers and flight control towers
routinely design their spaces to withstand external  threats—weather,
power outages, earthquakes and, in some cases, even biological threats.
While clearly all of these external threats must be addressed, an invisible
threat, inside the call center, is sometimes overlooked. |
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Managing Static: The
Invisible Threat to Call Centers
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Article originally appeared in the May '04 issue of Emergency Number Professional Magazine. |
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Many facilities managers
agonize unnecessarily while attempting to choose the "right"
ESD floor for their corporate environments. Because most high tech businesses
house multiple processes, each with its own  individual flooring requirement,
satisfying every department can be a daunting, thankless challenge. |
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The Facilities
Manager's Guide to ESD Flooring Materials
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Article originally appeared in the Nov. '03 issue of Conformity Magazine. |
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| Taking The Mystery Out Of Selecting ESD Flooring | |
| Because the static control floor affects
every aspect of the organization—from performance to image—in
most cases, finding the right floor involves a marriage of competing interests,
including cost, durability, ergonomics, compliance with safety standards,
appearance, company image, maintenance, total cost of ownership and, of
course, ESD properties. |
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Taking
The Mystery Out Of Selecting ESD Flooring
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Article originally appeared in the Dec. '02 issue of Conformity Magazine. |
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HBM Device Failure: The Scourge of Static-Sensitive
Operations - A close examination of S20.20 reveals the key  ingredients
to a successful ESD control program. ESD affects primary assembly and product
warranty as well as the electronics industry in general. Article also describes
measuring the personnel system resistance to ground as defined in ESD STM
97.1-1999. |
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| HBM Device Failure: The Scourge of Static-Sensitive Operations | |
Article originally appeared in the Oct. '04 issue of Evaluation Engineering Magazine. |
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| Curing Static Electricity Damage In a Communications Center | |
| A good-quality, high-performance conductive floor is the only fail-safe means of safely and effectively controlling static in a mission-critical environment or communications center. By Jerry M. Giuliano and David H. Long, StaticSmart Mission-Critical Flooring |
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*This article appears in the August/September '05 issue of Emergency Number Professional Magazine. |
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