Kasprzak, Bill (esd) US wrote:
>
> 'Netters ---
>
> I'd like to ask the 1,780 or so (almost 2000) members of the tech net
> community the following question  ....
>
> If you were moving into new area or location, or have recently done so, or
> wish that you could .....
>
> What kind of flooring would you install, "Conductive or Antistatic" ? I'd
> like to get this answer along with a brief explanation as to why or why not.
> (Maybe the answer is neither, I need to have you eleborate why you think
> neither is any good.) Please, don't write major literary pieces here, I do
> not want you spend a lot of time on this.
>
> Recommendations accepted ! Our shop floor is being moved to a new location
> in the building, I have such an opportunity.
>
> All and any responses as always are greatly appreciated !


Goto the following website.  It's excellent.

 http://www.esdsystems.com/whtpaper/standards.htm

Itemizes their complete static control program.

If it's too much, go down to the end of website to where it lists the
ohmic values for certaing types of materials. From those values, you
can get an idea what value in ohms-per-square your vendor will give
you in the floor you want.

I'd reccomend conductive to guarentee you're down in the dissipative
range.  Anti-static simply means it won't generate dangerous levels
of static charge.  But, anti-static surfaces may not necessarily be
as dissipative as you may need.  That's graded by the ohms-per-square
value.  Some standards require you to have a certain ohms-per-square
for your floor.

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