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How to approach technician colleagues ignoring ESD precautions
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.
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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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