vacation internship report - a0087037b jason
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MECHANICAL
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
Name of Student: Lee Boon Ping Jason Matric No. A0087037B
Course/Year/Training Period: Mechanical Engineering/3/ 12 th May – 1 st Aug
Student’s Email Address: [email protected]
VACATION INTERNSHIP REPORT
Name of Mentor: A/Prof Teo Chee Leong
Name of Company: Everfeed Technology Pte Ltd
Vacation Internship Report [1]
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[Everfeed Technology Pte Ltd]
Reporting Period:
[12/05/2014 - 01/08/2014]
Submitted by:
[Lee Boon Ping Jason]
[A0087037B]
Mechanical Engineering/Year 3
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The National University of Singapore
[2014]
TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 4
I INTRODUCTION 5
III THE TRAINING SCHEDULE 6-7
III THE TRAINING ASSIGNMENTS
Week 1: Introduction to Company Operations and ESD 8
Week 2: DSO product demonstration & SIMCO-ION product training 9
Week 3: Initial Preparation of PPT for symposiums & ESD Training Course at DSO National laboratories
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Week 4: Start of Marketing & Publicity of Singapore Symposium 2014 10-11
Week 5: Continuation of Marketing & Publicity of Singapore Symposium 2014
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Week 6: Continuation of PowerPoint for ESD symposium Singapore to meet 1st deadline (25th June 2014)
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IV CONCLUSION 13
Student Log Sheet 14
VIP Report Clearance Form 15
Acknowledgements
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I would like to extend my gratitude towards my internship company, Everfeed
Technology Pte Ltd and the following people for their invaluable guidance and help
during my internship with them:
o Manager, Mr Marcus Koh, for his constant mentoring and advice.
o Manager, Mr Yohan Goh for always answering to my queries
o Fellow colleagues and fellow intern who have always been patient to teach me
hands-on technical skills, explaining procedures and treating me as part of the
team.
o Mr. Gerald Wong
o Mr Chiam Toon Fung
o Mr Gavin Teo
o Ms Ding Xin
o Ms Chloe Chiew (Fellow Intern)
Introduction
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Everfeed Technology Pte Ltd was founded in 1997 and hence is still a relatively young
company. The core business focuses largely on Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) related
matters. The 3 main categories of their services are 1) Consultation & Products, 2)
Training & Personal Certification and lastly, 3) Auditing & Maintenance.
The primary business stem from the following industries listed below:
1) Electronics & Electrical Manufacturing Industries
2) Front-End / Back-End Wafer Fabrication Industries
3) F&B Industries
For a relatively small establishment, Everfeed has a large and extensive network of
associates when it comes to electrostatic control. More notably, some of the customers
include Hewlett Packard (HP), Epson, Hitachi, STATSChipPac, Panasonic and Infineon.
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Training Assignments
Week 1: Introduction to Company Operations and Basic ESD
When I initially entered the company, my very first task was to read
up on the company operations and the fundamentals of electrostatic
discharge. I was given 2 ebooks (ESD A to Z) and (ESD Control
Management) together with a range of product catalogues to read up
and to understand.
As the content of electrostatic discharge (ESD) are not taught to mechanical engineering
students (more applicable to electrical engineering), the concepts are relatively new and
foreign to me. Nonetheless, it is a good learning experience to be trained in a completely
new subject matter.
Furthermore, I had the privilege to accompany my fellow colleagues for site work at
United Test and Assembly Center Ltd (UTAC) and DSO National Laboratories to
experience first-hand the conditions of an actual cleanroom environment. This was the
first time I had to wear a full body ESD smock that consists of headwear, mask, smock,
ESD shoes and gloves.
To sum up week 1, it was a 1-week intensive revision of the concepts of ESD and to
know the products that the company deals with. The following are some of the ESD
control products:
Week 2: DSO product demonstration and SIMCO-ION product training
Week 2 started off with a
fundamentals MCQ test to
examine my ESD learning progress in which I scored 17/20. That being said, even though
Bench-Top IoniserCharge Plate Monitor Electrostatic Field Meter
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it has been a week of intensive reading on ESD, I still have not fully grasp the entire
concept together. Hence, I was to continue revising on the 2 ebooks given to me.
Subsequently, my colleague was tasked to visit DSO for product
demonstration and training and thus I tagged along to learn more. The
products demonstrated were the 3M™ EM Eye Meter and the Charge
Plate Monitor.
The EM Eye meter is a versatile and multi-purpose instrument capable
of ESD event detection, Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Measurement
and RF Signal Sensor. More remarkably, it is competent to detect ESD
event and classify them into the various models (HBM, CDM & MM)
and rejecting non-ESD related events making analysis easier.
The charge plate monitor is mainly to test the performance of ionizers.
Typically, it was to be charged up to a certain potential (1000V), and
the time taken for an ionizer to reduce the monitor’s potential to 100V
is then measured.
Following that, I was also tasked to begin my preparation of the
power-point presentation for both Germany and the upcoming
Singapore ESD symposiums. I was to read up on the various technical
papers to gain insights to how to structure and to explain the new concepts brought forth
by the proposed technical papers.
Last but not least, the more significant event for the week was that the product training by
Mr. Pony Chiu (Asian Regional Manager) of SIMCO-ION. It was a comprehensive
training on their products and I really got to understand how the products can be
applicable and marketed to the industries.
Week 3: Initial Preparation of PPT for symposiums & ESD Training Course at DSO National laboratories
3M™ EM Eye Meter
Charge Plate
Monitor
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After reading up on the ESD eBooks and the various technical papers, I was more
equipped to start creating the power-points for the symposium. There are 3 different
power-points to be prepared on 3 different technical papers.
1) PPT 1 - ESD Process Capability Analysis & Probabilistic Analytical Benchmarking
2) PPT 2 - Evaluation of Length to Diameter Ratio of Grounding Wires
3) PPT 3 - Static Control Considerations for Automated Handling Equipment with High Temperature Testing
The challenge was that there was a lack of background information for me to understand
the whole situation and hence, at times, I was caught in a deadlock of not knowing how
to proceed with the presentation. However, with the help of my colleagues patiently
explaining to me, I was more aware of the issue and better organized to work on the
power-points.
The week then concluded with a 3-day advanced training workshop conducted at DSO
National laboratories. In a class of 9 DSO employees and 1 3M employee, my fellow
intern and I were able to sit in the course to finally complete our fundamental ESD
training by Mr Marcus Koh (Supervisor). I was glad that we are able to undergo the
course for free that is worth thousand over dollars.
During the 3-day course, we had numerous tests to evaluate our understanding of the
concepts and calculations. The results are as follows: Electrostatic Fundamentals (24/25),
ESDA standards and measurements (43/50), Electrostatic Calculations (20/25) and lastly
Mock-up iNARTE exam (95/100).
Week 4: Start of Marketing & Publicity of Singapore Symposium 2014
Week 4 began with the start of our marketing and publicity stunts aimed to raise
awareness of the ESD symposium (Aug 4-6). We sent out invitations for the event
through LinkedIn and publicised through the various social media platforms.
In addition, I was tasked to compare and summarise the various standards with regards to
the requirement of a Electrostatic Protected Area (EPA). The different standards are by
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American National Standards Institute (ANSI), Joint Electron Device Engineering
Council (JEDEC) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).
Week 5: Continuation of Marketing & Publicity of Singapore Symposium 2014
To add on to our publicity effort, we continued to publicise by mass-emailing the ESD
symposium brochure using the contacts database. Keeping in mind the spam control act
that was put in place to restrict malicious and spam mails, the mass emails were sent
batch by batch throughout the weeks.
Furthermore, following the submission of the technical paper for Germany symposium,
there is a peer-to-peer evaluation to validate the quality of the papers. Hence, I was given
the assignment to finish reading and to comment. They are graded based on 3 criteria, 1)
Novelty & Relevance, 2) Completeness of Data and 3) Quality of Analysis. The
following are the papers evaluated.
01_ESD_control_improvement_program_at_NXP_Mirey02_Soldering_Iron_Tip_Grounding_Management_Weller_03_Uncertainties_in_Electrostatic_Field_Measurements_Viheriaekos04_Humidity_Control_Device_For_Static_Charge_Reduction_II_Kow05_Overview_of_standards_for_evaluating_the_electrostatic_properties_of_apparel_and_apparel_materials_Holdstock06_Static_Management_Program_a_Solution_to_Control_EOS_ESD_Risks_in_production_plants_3M_Gurga07_Electrostatic_discharges_from_automotive_cable_harness_Smallwood08_Grounding_of_working_cell_structures_in_EPA_Tamminen09_ESD_Process_Capability_Analysis_and_Probabilistic_Analytical_Benchmarking_Koh10_Factory_Floor_ESD_Control_Audit_and_CDM_CBE_Investigation_on_PCBA_Assembly_Line_Fung11_Flooring_Design_and_ESD_Selection_Criteria_Reina12_Standard_Electrode_Anomaly_with_Epoxyresin_Floors_Schumacher13_Comparison_of_the_Performance_of_Electrostatic_Field_meter_and_Electrostatic_Voltmeter_Pfeifle14_Comparing_Room_Ionization_Technologies_in_FPD_Yoo15_Discharge_Waveforms_of_Charged_Board_Events_Stadler
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Week 6: Continuation of Powerpoint for ESD symposium Singapore to meet 1 st deadline (25 th June 2014)
With the 3rd Asian ESD symposium drawing nearer, publicity efforts had to be stepped
up. For the mass-emailing part, we completed sending to the 1700+ contacts on Google
mail and hopefully, the next round of effort can be continued. The tentative plan is to
send out personalised emails to previous years’ participants of the 1st and 2nd Asian ESD
symposiums in hope that we might be able to engage them and to draw their attention to
the upcoming symposium.
At the moment, publicity is still an issue as the sign ups for the symposium (tutorial +
technical session) remained well below the target. Hence, for the next few weeks to
come, it is imperative to come up with more innovative and effective ways to help market
the event.
On top of that, the 1st draft for the power-point titled “Static Control Considerations
For Automated Handling Equipment With High Temperature Testing” is due for
submission the following week on 25 th June , hence I had to revamp the current version to
include more photos, diagrams and hopefully, this can make the presentation much more
interesting and easier to understand. With the knowledge I have gained from the past few
weeks of internship, I believe I am more able to grasp the concept relatively better.
Conclusion
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At the end of these 6 weeks of VIP, I am already at the halfway mark of the entire
internship. I feel that it is a very enriching 6 weeks working at Everfeed Technology Pte
Ltd. For a start, I have learnt a lot about the ESD industry, the different measurement
equipment (CPM, multimeter, EMeye, etc), the current standards (IEC, JEDEC, ANSI),
the current industry practices and how important it is for engineering and manufacturing
companies to control and limit electrostatic discharge.
The experience is of course not without any challenges, with the limited amount of
resources I have and my brief understanding of ESD as of now, I have to work even
harder to fully understand and effectively interpret the concepts in the presentation.
With my primary role to help with the upcoming symposium’s presentation and to market
/ publicise about the ESD symposium, I wish that for the next 6 weeks, I can achieve
better results and make the entire internship a more fruitful experience.
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