In today’s electronic industries, we can see many organizations are becoming more aware of the importance of having a proper esd control in their production lines to ensure their products are not damaged by electrostatic discharge.

One of the key areas that organizations need to look at is the Qualification process of the ESD materials and equipments.

It is at utmost importance to have the correct ESD materials and equipments used in the production lines to ensure the materials and equipments do not generate lots of static electricity which are harmful to the ESD sensitive parts.

To ensure the ESD materials and equipments are safe for production use, a Qualification process for materials and equipments must first be established. Secondly, correct and suitable ESD equipments must be purchased to help in performing the qualification of the materials and equipments.

The most important and basic esd equipment that would be needed in qualifying the ESD materials and equipment is the Surface resistance meter or Megohmmeter.

In the market places there are many brands and models of surface resistance meters that organizations can choose from. It is highly recommended choosing a surface resistance meter that can do the following measurements:
•Point to point resistance
•Resistance to ground
•Surface resistance and Surface resistivity
•Volume resistance
for both planar and irregular surfaces.

Some of the available surface resistance meter or Megohmmeter that can perform the above measurements in the market places are:
•Ohm-Stat RT1000 Megohmmeter from Static Solutions
•Monroe 272A Portable surface resistivity and resistance meter from Monroe
•Trek 152 Surface resistance meter from Trek

These models employed digital meter with setting at 10V/100V, two five pound electrodes, concentric ring electrode, and 2 point probe resistance meter as their accessories.

ESD measurements on the ESD materials and equipment must be carried out in compliance to ESD standard ANSI/ESD S20.20 and other supporting ESD standards listed in ANSI/ESD S20.20.

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