| you are shipping products, whether those | | | | neutralizing. |
| products include an entirely manufactured | | | | |
| piece of retail material or specific | | | | Most of the time, this discharge is unnoticed |
| components which will go into the goods in | | | | or at the least does no harm outside of a |
| question, the main goal is to have the | | | | mild shock, but keep in mind that electronic |
| products reach their destination in a short | | | | components are meant to be sensitive to any |
| amount of time and totally intact. Failure to | | | | change in polarity; they will receive the |
| achieve either of these goals could be a blow | | | | brunt of the discharge during shipping and |
| to your business; you will either have to | | | | will be rendered useless. |
| replace dysfunctional goods or lose a | | | | |
| customer, and either option will result in a | | | | The only real way to prevent damage and |
| knock to your bottom line. | | | | dissatisfied customers is through the use of |
| | | | anti-static packaging. Anti-static packaging |
| It is beneficial for the manufacturing | | | | is manufactured using materials that do not |
| business, therefore, to ensure that the goods | | | | conduct electrical charges at all, and will |
| they ship are as protected as possible so as | | | | therefore block the static energy as the |
| to arrive intact. No doubt you have already | | | | charge is neutralized. All electronic |
| considered some of the more obvious packaging | | | | components, and the units in which they are |
| options when it comes to keeping your | | | | housed, should be fully encased within |
| shipments safe; proper insulation, waterproof | | | | anti-static packaging. It will ensure not |
| coverings, buffers, and so on. However, it is | | | | only that no charges can reach the |
| important that when electronics are a part of | | | | components, but also that there is no chance |
| the shipment that you take your packaging one | | | | for a charge to build up within the packaging |
| step further and think about the impact of | | | | itself during shipping. |
| static electricity. | | | | |
| | | | Finally, keep in mind that when it comes to |
| When it comes to electronic components, | | | | retail products, a damaged electronic |
| particularly semiconductor devices and other | | | | component may never be pinpointed as the |
| such components that are highly sensitive to | | | | source of defection. It will therefore make |
| a change in polarity, the common occurrence | | | | it easier both for the retailer and the |
| of static electricity can truly be | | | | manufacturer to ensure that every potential |
| devastating. Static electricity occurs when | | | | problem is neutralized though proper |
| an electric charge builds up due to poor | | | | precautions in order to guarantee quality |
| conductivity along a surface. Sooner or later | | | | goods, and anti-static packaging is an |
| this build up will discharge, referred to as | | | | important step in the process. |