ESD garment or ESD smock tester

As technology advances, Charged Device Model (CDM) damage model is growing to be a new ESD sensitive device killer.

One of the sources for CDM damage model is from the ESD garment worn by the personnel. As a result, the control on ESD garment or ESD smock has gained a growing importance.

ESD garments or ESD smocks become tribocharged when worn by the personnel. Besides providing shielding protection,the conductive threads which were sewn on the ESD garment help to dissipate the static charge to ground either through the ground wire attached to the garment or through the contact between the ESD garment and a grounded human body.

ESD garments or ESD smocks will not be able to function properly if the conductive threads on the ESD garments/smocks become damaged.

As a result, the ESD garments/smocks must be periodically tested to maintain the integrity of ESD property.

For any organization with a large number of employees, it would definitely be difficult to ensure full compliance on ESD garments/smocks according to ANSI/ESD S20.20 /IEC 61340, unless there is a systematic approach to monitoring the ESD garments/smocks.

Unless you have a systematic approach to monitor the ESD garments/smocks in your organization, you may want to consider "Automated ESD garment tester" which is an automated ESD garment/smock tester that runs on auto-pilot.