STRINGENT ESD 20:20 STANDARDS HELP PROTECT YOUR PC BUILDING BUSINESS (DEMO)
PC gaming is enjoying a boom. As of September last year, Intel claimed that there are over 700 million PC gamers in the world, or roughly 1 in every 10 people. A lot of these gamers play on PCs they built themselves, while several use a system built by so-called boutique PC builders, companies whose sole business is to construct high-performance gaming computers for their clients.
If you’re looking to break into the boutique PC building landscape, however, you have to guard against a very potent enemy: electrostatic discharge, otherwise known as ESD. In the PC building world, ESD is considered a scourge as it can significantly damage or even completely destroy computer components, as well as the entire system. The damage that can be wrought by ESD is the reason why strict ESD 20:20 standards exist. ESD 20:20 is a set of parameters that guard against electronic component damage from electrostatic charges.
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ESD is extremely perilous to PC components. A seemingly minuscule amount of 30 volts is enough to damage critical PC parts due to Ohm’s Law. It points to the interaction of electricity’s three major components: voltage, amperage, and resistance. Electric current works like water in a hose, where voltage is the pressure which moves water through the hose, amperage is the amount of water, and resistance is the size/width of the hose.
ESD is comparable to this situation: if you attach a smaller garden hose to a pump with water pressure as strong as a fire hydrant’s, the garden hose can explode because it’s not equipped to handle the pressure. Moving to electronic terms, electricity in computer components travel through extremely delicate lines of copper. If those lines suddenly receive a voltage surge more than they’re able to handle, the lines can fail, causing damage to the component.
Fortunately, ESD can be prevented with a few precautionary measures. The trusted ISO certification ESD 20:20, offered by certification companies such as the International Standards Authority, Inc., can help organizations with the safe design, development, and maintenance of the (ESD) Control Program to protect ESD-sensitive electrical or electronic parts, assemblies, and equipment from damage.
Such certification is intended to improve overall processes and performance, as well as minimize (if not completely eradicate) the risks associated with ESD. The standards enforce compliance with domestic and international ESD management and prevention requirements, and ESD testing.
A boutique PC building business can be brought down easily with one screw-up involving ESD. You don’t want any weak parts breaking down, especially the extremely delicate and expensive components that your customers are paying a premium for. All your customers want is a gaming PC that performs without any hitch or any risk of failing.
(Source: Your Sneakers Can Kill Your Com – How Static Electricity Works, MakeUseOf.com, August 19, 2012)
ESD is extremely perilous to PC components. A seemingly minuscule amount of 30 volts is enough to damage critical PC parts due to Ohm’s Law. It points to the interaction of electricity’s three major components: voltage, amperage, and resistance. Electric current works like water in a hose, where voltage is the pressure which moves water through the hose, amperage is the amount of water, and resistance is the size/width of the hose.
ESD is comparable to this situation: if you attach a smaller garden hose to a pump with water pressure as strong as a fire hydrant’s, the garden hose can explode because it’s not equipped to handle the pressure. Moving to electronic terms, electricity in computer components travel through extremely delicate lines of copper. If those lines suddenly receive a voltage surge more than they’re able to handle, the lines can fail, causing damage to the component.
Fortunately, ESD can be prevented with a few precautionary measures. The trusted ISO certification ESD 20:20, offered by certification companies such as the International Standards Authority, Inc., can help organizations with the safe design, development, and maintenance of the (ESD) Control Program to protect ESD-sensitive electrical or electronic parts, assemblies, and equipment from damage.
Such certification is intended to improve overall processes and performance, as well as minimize (if not completely eradicate) the risks associated with ESD. The standards enforce compliance with domestic and international ESD management and prevention requirements, and ESD testing.
A boutique PC building business can be brought down easily with one screw-up involving ESD. You don’t want any weak parts breaking down, especially the extremely delicate and expensive components that your customers are paying a premium for. All your customers want is a gaming PC that performs without any hitch or any risk of failing.
(Source: Your Sneakers Can Kill Your Com – How Static Electricity Works, MakeUseOf.com, August 19, 2012)