Automating your Wrist strap and ESD shoes checking
By LearnESD.com Team

Wrist strap is a primary and an shoe is a secondary human grounding method that is widely used in the Electronic industries.

Workers are required to check both their wrist strap and shoes functionality before they use them in the production assembly lines. Traditionally, workers need to record down the testing results in a record.

As Technology improves, more and more sophisticated and value added testing equipments are designed to help companies to improve their testing operation.
Wrist strap continuous monitor provides a real time monitoring system to tell workers whether they are properly grounded. Paper recording is not required at all.

There are many manufacturers that sell wrist strap continuous monitor such as 3M 725 which is from U.S and Static data Max 1035 Series which is from Taiwan.

Another method that allows eliminating the paper recording is by using a turnstile system.
When both of their wrist strap and shoes pass the testing, the turnstile will only allow workers to enter the production assembly lines.

The auto-checker using turnstile is normally a custom made system. One of the key features that can be incorporated into the turnstile system is the data logging system. With this system, companies will be able to track the record of people who have checked their grounding devices and the status of the grounding devices whether they pass or fail.

Companies can always source for a vendor that can provide this service either locally or from overseas.




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