Electrostatic discharge continues to cause billions of dollars of losses in the electronics industry every year. ESD damage reduces quality, reliability and profitability in thousands of companies just like yours.

This training is designed to provide you with an introduction to ESD: its causes, effects and its control. The PROSTAT Fundamentals of ESD and Auditing training is two full days of professional ESD orientation and training in facility evaluation techniques for static control in the complex organization. This in-depth two day seminar will:

1. Increase your understanding of ESD in the electronics environment
2. Help you identify ESD problems
3. Provide techniques for monitoring and evaluating your facilities and ESD programs

What you will learn

• What is static?
• What causes it?
• How Static affects the electronics industry
• 4 ways static causes devices to fail
• The basics of charge generation and dissipation
• How to measure static fields and charge
• The difference between resistance and resistivity
• 3 types of shielding
• How to evaluate ESD control materials
• The 12 points of static control and how to evaluate them
• How to measure your ESD controls in accordance with ANSI/ESD S20.20 compliant programs
• What standards and specifications to use

Who Should Attend?

• QA/QC Managers and technicians
• Quality auditors
• Manufacturing and production management
• ESD Auditors
• ESD Coordinators ESD committee members
• Facility managers
• ANYONE responsible for ESD control, product development, procedures or auditing

PROSTAT^® takes auditing beyond instrumentation sales. In conjunction with Stephen Halperin and Associates, PROSTAT^® developed the Fundamentals of ESD and Auditing seminar to help our customers understand electrostatics and use their auditing kits.