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StaticWorx is liquidating over 50,000 square feet of conductive flooring to make room for our new 2008
ESD flooring and grounding products.
Staticworx launches Ameriworx conductive flooring tile converting operation in Georgia.
A true no wax conductive or dissipative vinyl floor with a lifetime warranty
*certified to meet ANSI/ESD S20.20
Read more here or go directly to Ameriworx on staticworx.com. |
Rhino Series Rubber Flooring
The first fault tolerant static control walking surface
Developed by electrostatic engineers to overcome the limitations of typical static flooring: Conductive, Anti-static and Groundable
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:: Published ESD Flooring Articles | StaticWorx Flooring ::
ESD consultants caution electronics manufacturers about state of the art
static sensitive devices
Published in the September, 2007 issue of Conformity Magazine
The new components are called "Class 0 devices." According to all the experts, every factory will handle them before 2010 and it can take up to two years to prepare.
 These ultra-sensitive ESDS components will be used in everything from lap tops to video games. This article walks you through 7 mandatory considerations for setting up a static free environment for Class 0 as well as meeting the latest revision of ANSI/ESD S20.20-2007. Topics include: grounding, anti static flooring, static mats, air ionizers, static meters, heel straps. This article also puts to rest the question of conductive flooring vs. static dissipative flooring.
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ESD consultants caution electronics manufacturers about state of the art
static sensitive devices —
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Did you know an ESD floor should never be specified as needing to be either conductive or static dissipative?
| Calling a floor conductive or dissipative falsely implies that the electrical properties of the material fall within a narrow set of parameters. In fact, with their extremely wide ranges of electrical resistance, the terms are about as precise as the descriptors hard and soft. Take a few moments to read the article “Potential Conflicts When Evaluating ESD Flooring”. |
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 You’ve been asked to recommend a static-free tile by your most important client but you don’t even know where to begin. So much to learn, all that jargon:
ESD rubber or dissipative vinyl? Conductive tile or antistatic epoxy? Grounded or low kV computer carpet? Charge generation or resistance to ground? Burroughs IBM standard or ESD standard? Dissipative carpeting or Staticguard spray? Armstrong SDT or permanently conductive ESD tile? Special installer or regular flooring crew?
Relax - you can do it! Start with this simple overview and then a visit to our glossary of the 21 most commonly used words in ESD flooring.
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ESD Floors 101: For Beginners — Click here to read the article in PDF format
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Seven typical mistakes you can avoid when selecting an ESD Floor -
Published in the March 06 issue of Conformity Magazine
Since the invention of the first microprocessor by Intel in 1971, there has been a steady drive to create smaller, faster and more complex electronic circuitry. According to the Sematech Roadmap for Semiconductors (www.sematech.org), the continued scaling of tiny, lightening-quick electronic devices has, and will continue to, generate significant challenges for designers and, by extension, users of next generation semiconductors. Many of these challenges will involve the need for stringent static control procedures from wafer fabrication facilities all the way through to computer rooms and any space where electronic devices are handled, stored or used. |
| Seven typical mistakes you can avoid when selecting an ESD Floor — Click here to read the article in PDF format |
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Choosing The Right ESD Flooring For Laboratory And Technical Environments
Published in the May 05 issue of Conformity Magazine
Previous studies have illustrated the significant benefits of a comprehensive employee grounding program for effective control of unwanted static charges. Between 1978 and 1982, G. T. Dangelmayer, AT&T, conducted factory studies which documented dramatically different yields between side-by-side identical circuit board assembly lines with only one variable: static dissipative grounding. During a two year long period, in plant studies showed that assembly lines equipped with personnel grounding devices and dissipative table mats produced significantly better yields than lines that did not utilize any grounding procedures. Of greater import, AT&T also noted statistically relevant correlations between compliance with ESD grounding procedures and overall improvements in product quality. Despite 25 years of overwhelming evidence supporting the benefits of personnel grounding, noncompliance with grounding procedures remains a major obstacle to many ESD program managers. Click here to read more of this insightful article.
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| Choosing the right ESD Flooring for your laboratory and technical environments — Click here to read the article in PDF format |
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Taking the Mystery Out of Selecting ESD Flooring
Published in the December 02 issue of Conformity Magazine
Unlike other components in the program, the installation of static control flooring represents a permanent capital investment, with costs of 1.5 to 2 times those of a standard non-ESD floor. 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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The Facilities Manager's Guide to ESD Flooring Materials
Published in the November 03 issue of Conformity Magazine
Developments in flooring technology provide more options and offer flexible approaches.
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. Click here to read more of this article |
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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.
Click here to read more of this article.
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 "Does it do any good to have esd chairs if the floor is not esd?" ~ Mike
Mike,
The best way to answer your question is by using a couple of analogies.
A chain is only as good as its weakest link. In the case of an electrical chain, the weak link is the result of a breach in conductivity. A loose or disconnected wire is the most simple example.
Think of a person’s body as an isolated conductive object (AKA a capacitor) capable of storing static electricity. Kind of like a two-legged Van-de-Graff generator sitting on static generating carpet with no place to discharge. Think of the conductive chair as the same thing. The chair might be conductive but unless it is sitting on a conductor like an ESD floor, there’s a break in the chain. Remember, charge can not discharge through plastic or other electrically insulative flooring materials. When the static charged body approaches and then sits in the conductive chair, the static charge on the body will immediately flow to the chair until both the body and the chair share the same charge. We call this, sharing potential. The charge will not go away because there is place for it to go. Charge can only flow between conductive objects and since the floor is non-conductive, the charge will remain static. In the scenario you have described, the chair and the person remain ungrounded because they are isolated from ground. There is no conductive path through the floor. If either the person or the chair make contact with electronic equipment - both will discharge to the equipment simultaneously. Without a conductive floor, a conductive chair is nothing more than another charged body looking for a place to discharge. Kind of like an unanticipated accident waiting to happen.
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AT&T Study of ESD Floors
This study of ESD floors is considered to be the finest examination of ESD flooring options ever conducted by an unbiased third party. Find out why rubber offers the lowest total cost of ownership ESD floor covering based upon a two year examination of: conductive and dissipative vinyl ESD tile, antistatic and dissipative rubber ESD tile and various conductive ESD epoxy coatings. Please note: Due to clean room considerations associated with AT&T's microelectronics facility, this study omitted ESD carpeting and ESD carpet tile.
Please refer to the article Choosing The Right ESD Floor For Laboratory and Technical Environments for information about the suitability of ESD carpeting in electronics handling environments.
StaticWorx ESD Rubber Tile Floors Meets Strict Indoor Air Quality Standards
StaticWorx ESD Rubber Flooring Meets Indoor Air Quality Standards of California's Section 01350
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StaticWorx ESD rubber flooring meets the Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) standards of California's Section 01350. Part of the California Code of Regulations (CCR), Section 01350 is a special environmental requirements standard specification that covers key environmental performance issues in all state owned or leased buildings. Section 01350 addresses the selection and handling of building materials in construction, along with a range of other sustainable design issues.
StaticWorx ESD rubber flooring meets the standards outlined in the section's IAQ testing protocol, which stipulates that independent laboratories test materials for chemical emissions. Approved materials must conform to allowable levels identified in Section 01350. Meeting the standards of Section 01350 attest to our company's commitment to provide stylish solutions for the toughest floor covering problems in an environmentally sensitive way that is always considerate of the health and safety of building occupants."
The Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS), a consortium of public agencies and California utilities, incorporated Section 01350 into a best practices manual that has been adopted by several states in the nation. Compliance with Section 01350 also helps products qualify through other efforts that reference Section 01350 as parameters for defining environmentally preferable products (EPP). In particular, Section 01350 is included in the Scientific Certification Systems (SCS) criteria for EPP, which will be used by the State of California Division of the State Architect (DSA) for the development of its EPP database. Products that meet Section 01350 will be considered for inclusion.
 StaticWorx ESD Rubber Tile: Enormous Savings Potential
The benefit of the closed surface, typical of StaticWorx ESD rubber floor coverings, combined with stainbloc™, a proprietary process during manufacturing by which StaticWorx rubber floor coverings are produced to create a dense nonporous dirt repellent surface, provide the following substantial benefits:
• Enhanced resistance to scuffing
• Increased resistance to soiling and staining
• Easier maintenance
• Coating or waxes not required
These benefits have an extremely positive effect on the price/benefit ratio during long periods of use because the maintenance costs for cleaning and care of floor coverings are many times the initial costs. Independent expert opinions confirm the economy and the enormous savings potential when using StaticWorx ESD Rubber floors. To read more about the cost-savings benefits of esd rubber tile, click here.
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