Applications

CleanRoom Systems

SIMCO takes a customized and comprehensive approach to total cleanroom ionization. Proper grounding procedures can efficiently neutralize charges on conductors, but only ionization can eliminate harmful charges on isolated conductors and insulative materials such as plastics.

Data Storage Manufacturing

Sensitive magnetoresistive (MR) heads are easily damaged or destroyed by ESD events. SIMCO's overhead and benchtop ionizers quickly neutralize harmful electrostatic charges with stable balance performance and protect critical disk drive assembly and production processes.

Electronics Assembly

Electronic products require protection from the destructive effects of electrostatic discharge (ESD), which can seriously damage sensitive electronic components and assemblies. SIMCO's extensive line of Aerostat ionizers protect production processes such as PCB manufacturing and assembly, surface mount technology, device programming, medical device manufacturing, and testing.

Electronic Display (FPD)

Stringent contamination control standards for flat panel display manufacturing often require the use of mini-environments and complete room ionization systems to isolate sensitive products from ambient particle contamination during fabrication.

Medical Device

Leading developers of medical device technology strive to enhance and improve the human condition. In this effort the industry understands the significance of product attributes including high reliability and conformance to demands of regulatory and approvals agencies on a worldwide basis. Uncontrolled electrostatic charge in the production of medical electronic devices puts these products at risk of premature field failure. In addition, electronic components are becoming increasingly sensitive to electrostatic charge. This sensitivity has been proven to result in reduced product yield.

SIMCO offers many products well suited to the demands of producing precision medical electronics devices. Our ionization products enhance the process by controlling electrostatic discharge locally. The result is improved reliability, yield and manufacturing efficiency.

Pharmaceutical

In critical, demanding professional analytic applications of lightweight and small materials such as powders and weigh samples, electrostatic charge complicates material handling and sample analysis. In order to improve accuracy, resolution and repeatability control of electrostatic charge is essential.

SIMCO offers several products well suited to the demands of analytic environments. These products enhance the process by eliminating the annoyance of material handling while improving accuracy, efficiency and repeatability of the process.

Semiconductor Manufacturing

Static charges are found in many phases of semiconductor manufacturing -- wafer production, fabrication, packaging, and testing. Controlling static charges is vital because ESD has a significant impact on device yields. Defects caused by electrostatically-attracted foreign matter and ESD events can contribute to manufacturing yield losses. Lock-up of process equipment can result in wafer damage and lost production.