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4.6 Waste Management & Environmental Compliance
Industrial waste is not "garbage"; it is material that has exited the value stream but retains fu...
4.5 Contractor Management & Permits to Work
External contractors represent the single largest unmitigated risk to facility integrity. They po...
4.4 Fire Safety in Thermal Processes
Thermal processing equipment (Reflow Ovens, Wave Soldering, Curing Ovens) essentially operates as...
4.3 Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) & Electrical Safety
Energy isolation is not an administrative exercise; it is a physical constraint applied to a kine...
4.2 Solder Fume Extraction
Flux fumes are not merely an olfactory nuisance; they are a complex aerosol of colophony (rosin) ...
4.1 Chemical Handling & Spill Response
Chemical integrity is not a compliance box to check; it is a fundamental variable in facility upt...
3.5 ESD Compliance Verification & Auditing
Entropy guarantees that every ESD control system will eventually fail. Wrist straps fatigue, floo...
3.4 Ionization & Insulator Control
Grounding straps and conductive floors have a fatal physical limitation: they only work on conduc...
3.3 Flooring & Grounding Architecture
The floor is the primary electrical foundation of the EPA. It serves as the sole ground path for ...
3.2 The ESD Protected Area (EPA)
The EPA is not merely a room with a sign; it is a precisely engineered equipotential volume. Insi...
3.1 ESD Program Governance
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) is the silent killer of yield. A discharge of <100V—too small for a...
2.3 Compressed Air Standards (ISO 8573)
Compressed air is the "Fourth Utility," but unlike electricity or water, you manufacture it on-si...
2.4 Nitrogen / Vacuum / Exhaust Utilities
These are the "Circulatory and Respiratory" systems of the factory. While power and air turn the ...
2.5 Utility Capacity Planning & New Equipment Hookup Checklist
A facility is a finite resource. Every new Reflow Oven or Wave Solder machine consumes a slice of...
2.2 Power Quality & Grounding
Electricity is the fuel of the factory, but "dirty" fuel destroys the engine. Modern SMT equipmen...
2.1 HVAC Monitoring, Alarms & Control Limits
The manufacturing environment is not just "air"; it is a critical process ingredient. In electron...
1.5 Training & Competency Matrix
A signed attendance sheet proves nothing. In a high-reliability facility, Competency is the only ...
1.4 Emergency Response & Drill Program
Hope is not a strategy. When an emergency alarm triggers, cognitive function drops by 50%. The go...
1.3 Incident / Near-Miss Reporting + CAPA linkage
A silent factory is a dangerous factory. In high-reliability organizations, bad news must travel ...
1.1 Legal Register & Compliance Calendar
Compliance is not an administrative exercise; it is the facility’s License to Operate. A missing ...