Ron Gibson - Senior Associate

Ron Gibson
Senior Associate

Ron Gibson is SH&A’s Senior Associate specializing in manufacturing process control, training and facility certification in accordance with ANSI/ESD S20.20 and IEC 61340-5-1. He is well known internationally as an outstanding ESD practitioner and as a major contributor to ESD technology since 1987. He was Celestica International’s Global Engineering Consultant and Corporate ESD Program Manager where he provided ESD technical guidance to all Celestica manufacturing sites, worldwide. Ron is highly experienced in manufacturing technology, packaging and all areas of ESD control in the electronic manufacturing process.

Today, Ron manages SH&A’s international ESD process capability analysis, precertification assessment and advanced training services. Those who are familiar with his insight and skills acknowledge him as one of the most advanced international experts in the ESD industry. They do so with many of Ron’s accomplishments in mind.

As a respected member of the standards development community Ron is active in the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as the Standards Council of Canada’s (SCC) national representative. In his position as Chair for IEC Technical Committee (TC) 101, Working Group 5, the important ESD Program Standard IEC 61340-5-1 and Handbook IEC 61340-5-2 were fully redeveloped to be technically equivalent to ANSI/ESD S20.20, thus harmonizing international ESD program standards. He distinguished himself by serving as the ESD Association’s Standards Chair for 10 years and publishing more industry ESD support documents than any standards chair in the history of ESDA. A member of the ESD Association since 1988, he has been active in several Standards Development Committees, a contributor to and past General Chairman of the EOS/ESD Technical Symposium, and served in every association officer’s position, including consecutive terms as Treasurer and ESDA President. As a co-founder and developer of the Professional ESD Program Manager Certification program, Ron has lectured and taught a variety of ESD courses internationally for major corporations and professional associations. He is one of the few ESD practitioners designated by the Reliability Center of Japan (RCJ) as a Chief ESD Coordinator and instructor.

Ron received the ESD industry’s highest award, the ESDA Outstanding Contribution Award, for his innovation and extensive list of technical contributions. In particular, he chaired the development and launched the ESD Association’s Facility ESD Certification program based on the ANSI/ESD S20.20 standard. This important benchmark is designed to confirm the effectiveness of a facility’s ESD control program and reduce losses, manufacturing costs, and enhance product reliability. ESD Program Certification is provided to electronics manufacturing facilities only through 3rd party ISO9000 registrars. Ron’s team has trained over 160 ISO9000 Lead Assessors globally, and to date over 200 electronics manufacturing facilities have been certified to the S20.20 Standard.

During the past several years Ron has worked with SH&A on many projects throughout electronics, medical, chemical, automotive, telecommunication and other static sensitive industries. One of Ron’s major accomplishments during the past four years was the co-development of “Process Capability & Transition Analysis” techniques which have advanced industry’s approach to effective electrostatic analysis and control.