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| Siwastaja:
--- Quote from: ogden on February 28, 2021, 12:38:04 pm ---I would start with The Boss. Easy way to convince - show success story of competitor. Also let him think about potential losses caused by employee zapping manufacturing equipment/instrument. Also remind him that zapped products may not reveal faults during manufacturing but after some time during their field use. It could result into various direct/indirect damages for company. --- End quote --- Exactly this. Remember to take the proof with you. This includes appnotes from reputable big names, microscope photographs of latent damage if you can find it, statistics, and so on. |
| wraper:
I once had an argument with a colleague at mobile phone repair service. I had to move to another bench which was brand new. I was making ESD wiring to bench mat, floor mat, etc. He was asking why do I even bother? He had those mats but no wiring whatsoever. He said if I had ever seen phones damaged by ESD. I replied with, how many working phones you took apart, assembled back and they no longer worked? He shut up. |
| JKTreu:
If it's your boss: Just make a frightened face every time he tries to grab an ESD sensitive assembly/device. If he's doing that in the winter with rubber soles I think a muffled scream is the appropriate reaction to signalize your discomfort witnessing this situation. If it's a colleague that should know better: There are ESD monitoring devices that detect and log ESD events, which might be a nice tool to demonstrate especially bad behavior around ESD-sensitive devices. Like this: The main problem with ESD damage is that it may just degrade some parameters instead of killing the device outright. |
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