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Wed, 03/02/2011
Anti Static for Beginners
ESD Static Control Flooring
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ESD Flooring: Static Dissipative vs. Static Conductive

Wed, 03/02/2011
Anti Static for Beginners
ESD Static Control Flooring
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Static dissipative flooring or conductive flooring, which one should I use? This video covers this conflict as well as meeting the ESD flooring criteria required in ANSI/ESD S20.20. This video relates to issues involving handling static sensitive devices in an ESD control program.

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Cleanrooms and Labs

Many facilities planners, concerned about contamination or potential scheduling delays, once dismissed the thought of installing electrostatic discharge (ESD) safe tile in operational clean spaces. Rather than risk tearing their buildings apart and losing valuable production time, many companies chose alternative methods to ESD flooring to be ANSI/ESD S20.20-1999 compliant. ESD industry control practices may include the combination of wrist straps, grounding cords, floor mats and “Faraday Cage” material handling protocols.Read more

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ESD Conductive Adhesives

Conductive adhesives act as a ground plane, providing electrical continuity between every ESD tile in a room. They don’t just hold the floor in place; they pull static away form the tile surface because electricity flows to the path of least resistance. When static charges contact the top of the floor, they dissipate through the floor to the conductive adhesive ground plane and on to ground – safely and effectively. Conductive adhesives are the path of least resistance.

Without conductive adhesives, ESD tiles would have no place to discharge unwanted static charges; every tile would be like an isolated island – charges would be stuck on individual tiles with no place to go. Staticworx® conductive adhesives enable an ESD floor to do its job by conducting static electricity back to the earth.Read more

Electronics Manufacturing

Numerous Static Dissipative and Static Conductive Options Exist for Electronics testing, Handling and Manufacturing.

The resistance properties (ohms rating) of ESD floors are not the only important parameter.Read more

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Access Floors

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In the networked office, people, equipment and furniture are constantly being moved. That means moving access floor panels and carpet tiles. This can be a time consuming, labor intensive process.

Access is easy and quick, panels can be removed simply without disturbing other panels or carpet.Read more

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Mission Critical and Data Centers

The choice of anti static flooring for a mission critical / data center involves a number of considerations but, the single most important factor is the type of footwear people will be wearing while working in the data center. In most situations, footwear cannot be controlled in data centers. For this reason it is always recommended that you select your floor with the premise that the floor must prevent static regardless of the composition of the shoe soles your people choose to wear in the work place.Read more

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Explosives and Flammable Materials Handling

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The essential properties required from a grounded conductive floor used in ammunition and explosives applications:

The maximum resistance of a body, plus the resistance of the conductive shoes, plus the resistance of the conductive floor to the ground system shall not exceed 1,000,000 ohms total. (R1 (body) + R2 (shoes) + R3 to ground (Floor ) < 1 million ohms.)Read more

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Mats and Runners

ESD Floor Runners and Mats are the ideal solution for strategic grounding of aisleways, corridors, and work areas. Aisle-Safe's permanent "static conductive" construction meets any Class 0, DOD 4145.26-M and ANSI/ESD S20.20 requirement. Lay-flat, 2 millimeter thickness allows for easy rolling of chairs and carts without curling.

ESD Floor Runners and Mats: Aisle-Safe:

The ideal solution for strategic grounding of aisleways, corridors, and work areas.

The only light colored static conductive floor runner and matting on the market. Attractive and durable, this ESD safe runner is ideal as a static free bridge between ESD safe areas. It can be used as runner, floor mat, or even as permanent flooring material.Read more

Epoxy Coating

GroundWorx is a budget friendly, static conductive, matte finish, epoxy coating that installs as two coats. This coating was specifically engineered for situations where a substantial investment in high-end flooring might not be justified because the floor space may be temporary or redeployed for other usage in the future. Despite its low cost, GroundWorx ESD Epoxy meets the static control flooring requirements of the 2007 revision of ANSI/ESD S20.20. GroundWorx provides a seamless matte finish to almost any sub-floor surface.

GroundWorx is a budget friendly, static dissipative, matte finish, epoxy coating that installs as two coats.

This coating was specifically engineered for situations where a substantial investment in high end flooring might not be justified because the floor space may be temporary or redeployed for other usage in the future. Despite its low cost, GroundWorx ESD Epoxy meets the static control flooring requirements of the 2007 revision of ANSI/ESD S20.20. GroundWorx provides a seamless matte finish to almost any sub-floor surface.Read more

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