Certify your facility against ANSI/ESD S20.20 standard
By LearnESD.com Team
ESD Association (ESDA) first established ANSI/ESD S20.20 standard in year 1999.
ANSI/ESD S20.20 is a document that provides guidance to set up an control program that protects sensitive items with sensitivity threshold level of 100Volt or greater HBM model.
The emergence of this ANSI/ESD S20.20 has reduced the problems faced by many companies especially contract manufacturers that have many customers with different plans.
When it comes to static control, ANSI/ESD S20.20 standard allows organisation to speak a common language in all parts of the world.
Ron Gibson from Celectica Inc and John Kinnear from IBM are the well known ANSI/ESD S20.20 training gurus, actively training ISO 9000 registrars on this standard the following year. By end 2001, DNV, QMI and BSI were the ISO registrars available for certifying organisation on this standard.
Celestica Inc was the first facility in the world to be audited and certified against ANSI/ESD S20.20 standard.
This ANSI/ESD S20.20 standard can be applied in all activities that involved in handling sensitive items. So far, there are many facilities that are already certified by the authorized ISO registrars including high tech-industry like Dongguan Wafer semiconductor.
This ANSI/ESD S20.20 standard outlines the requirements that to be followed to ensure continuous protection on the ESDS items produced or handled by the organisations.
The control program plan contains two sections: Administrative requirement section and Technical requirement section.
The Administrative section includes the Plan, Training and Compliance Verification.
The Technical section covers requirements for Grounding/Bonding, Personnel grounding, Packaging, Protected area, Handling, Equipment and Marking.
Requirements and guidance provided by the ANSI/ESD S20.20 standard help
organisations in setting up their Control program.
Some tailoring and adjustment to the requirements and the limits are required when handling more sensitive products.
Implementing ANSI/ESD S20.20 program in a facility definitely contributes to the bottom line of the organisation. Products are not only protected from damage, it will also increases customer confidence.
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