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Static control flooring in Austin, under 100 volts walking
A classified Austin room answers to two documents that never mention each other: a particle class and a resistance band. The record here shows EV battery manufacturing, semiconductor fab.
What is actually in Austin
Fabrication and equipment work in Travis County is what puts a resistance requirement on floors here, and each operation below carries the source it was checked against.
NXP operates two Austin campuses (Oak Hill and Ed Bluestein) with 2,700+ employees
NXP operates two Austin campuses (Oak Hill and Ed Bluestein) with 2,700+ employees producing automotive microcontrollers on 200mm wafers.
Tesla's Gigafactory Texas campus in Austin is now running a first-of-its-kind cathode
Tesla's Gigafactory Texas campus in Austin is now running a first-of-its-kind cathode production plant at scale, part of the 4680 battery cell supply chain, alongside Model Y, Cybertruck, and Cybercab production.
Two specs on one slab
In Austin the floor is specified twice, by two standards that were written independently, and reconciling them is most of the specification work.
The document behind a Austin job
ANSI/ESD S20.20-2021 is the one worth reading first for work like this. Sets the requirements for an ESD control program, and with it the system level thresholds a qualified floor has to support.
What it actually governs
S20.20 is a program standard, not a product standard. It tells an organisation that handles ESD sensitive electrical or electronic parts how to run a control program: what has to be qualified, what has to be verified, and how often. Flooring is one item inside that program, which is why the standard sets a system threshold rather than a floor specification.
Questions from Austin
Can you work inside a live Austin fab environment?
That depends on the room's protocol, the containment you require and the handover windows available. It is a real conversation rather than a yes or no. Send us the room and the protocol.
How soon can you get to Austin?
Tell us the timing you are working against and we will give you a real date rather than a placeholder. Crews work Travis County alongside the rest of the Texas schedule. Send the details.
Is Austin inside your normal service area?
Yes. Travis County is covered on the regular Texas schedule, so a job here does not carry a travel premium the way a one off out of state trip would.
Also in Austin-Round Rock
Crews working Austin cover Taylor, Round Rock, Hutto, Baytown on the same run, so a job in Travis County rarely stands on its own.
Sources
- ANSI/ESD S20.20-2021, the ESD control program standard for electronics handling
ESD control program requirements (administrative and technical) for any organization that handles ESD-sensitive electrical or electronic parts.
www.esda.org - ISO 14644-1:2015, cleanroom classification by airborne particle concentration
Cleanroom classification by airborne particle concentration (ISO Class 1 through 9); referenced when an ESD floor also has to hold a cleanroom particulate rating.
www.iso.org
Every number on this page came from one of those documents. Send us the room and we will tell you which of them your floor has to answer to.