Handbook for the Development of an ESD Control Program
To help organizations better prevent electrostatic discharge, a technical report, ESD TR20.20-2025: Handbook for the Development of an Electrostatic Discharge Control Program for the Protection…
ANSI/ESD S13.1-2019: Electrical Soldering/Desoldering Tools
Soldering or desoldering sensitive modern components like microprocessors, memory chips, and sensors requires strict adherence to electrostatic discharge (ESD) safety protocols to prevent permanent damage….
ISO 11221:2011—Space Solar Panels
Electrostatics is a major concern of spacecraft technology. Since space is filled with hot and low-density plasma that builds up high differential voltages, electrostatic discharge…
ISO 10605:2023—Road Vehicles ESD Test Methods
An average modern car has between 1,400 to 1,500 semiconductor chips: tiny electronic components that control everything from emissions systems to driver assist systems. Given…
ANSI/ESD S20.20-2021: Protection of Electrical and Electronic Parts
There’s electricity within you. The human body, at rest, contains around 100 volts. Our bodies are not alone in generating a charge. In manufacturing and…
Preventing Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)
What is Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)? When we walk across a carpeted floor and touch a doorknob, we feel a startling shock. This is one of…
ANSI/ESD S1.1-2021: Standard for Wrist Straps
The power of lightning is in your hands. Not the hands of Thor or Zeus or whatever lightning-casting being—but yours! The average human body, at…
ANSI/ESD S541-2019: Standard for Packaging ESD Susceptible Items
Imagine taking the time to carefully package a product and then realizing later that all that work that was painstakingly put into that task was…
ANSI/ESD S6.1-2019: Electrostatic Discharge Grounding
When you shuffle across a carpeted floor and tap a doorknob, you feel a startling shock. This is the simplest form of electrostatic discharge (ESD),…