Living in a cold and dry climate, I tend to experience lots of static shock.
I have got zapped whenever I touched the door knob. I almost burnt myself down when I refilled my car with gasoline at the gas station last weekend. I had fried many Integrated circuits and boards at working place and I [...]

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 ESD control program that protects ESD 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 [...]

As the electronic devices are getting smaller in geometry, they become more susceptible to ESD damage.  More and more ESD protective equipments and materials are manufactured and made available in the market place to help companies to combat their ESD problems. Some of the commonly used protective equipments and/or materials are wrist straps, heel straps, [...]