[email protected] wrote: > > One of our customers routinely does system ESD testing (to the IEC 1000 test > level) on their production line. I have always considered ESD testing to be > semi-destructive and would rather see "type" testing followed by strict > control of the design. Production line ESD testing seems like it could lead > to latent failures. Has anyone else had experience with this? Is this a > common practice? Thanks in advance. > > Darrell Locke > Advanced Input Devices
It hasn't and wouldn't be common production line practice with me. Products used for any type of testing are bought by me from mfring as *sacrificial* units. They are in my budget. If they are returned from my department, they go into marketing stock as demos never to be sold as *new* units again. If destructive ESD testing was done with a representative sample of a product, it would seem inappropriate to continue stressing customer products. You would want the customer to recieve as clean a product as possible. I would venture a guess that this customer of yours also sells the products that have gone through complete compliance testing to their customers. Regards ...
