It is a common sight to see workers in electronic manufacturing industry wearing some kind of gloves or finger cots while working with the products.
Workers wear gloves or finger cots to protect the products from being damaged by contamination, finger prints or scratches from the wearer.
In most electronic manufacturing industries, ESD gloves and finger cots [...]

Is taking ESD precaution necessary? The answer to this question is Yes and No.
It all depends on who you are and where you are.
Static electricity easily builds up when there are two materials come into contact and separate. The amount of static electricity build up on our body intensifies in a drier climate especially during the [...]

Nowadays almost everyone owns a computer at home. Computers have become a part of our lives: to access to news around the globe and information of any kind at anytime we like. Some people assemble computers to sell and some even open up and repair their own computers. There are few things that we should [...]

Electrostatic Discharge or ESD is going to receive more attention from industries in the future. Electronic chips are getting smaller and designed to work faster with more complex features. These make ESDS items more susceptible to ESD damage.  Without a proper ESD control in the manufacturing, more ESD sensitive items are easily damaged. This results [...]

A person should wear all the necessary ESD protective materials such as: 

ESD smock

ESD wrist strap

ESD shoes      before he enters an ESD Protected area (EPA).  

Most of the time a person would wear gloves or finger cots while at work to prevent oil stain or finger mark. ESD gloves or ESD finger cots should be used while [...]