TDI Static Dissipative Tweezers for Disk Drive Assembly

TDI INTERNATIONAL, INC. / IDEAL-TEK
Partners in Providing Static Dissipative Tools for the Disk Drive Industry

TDI is the Exclusive Worldwide Supplier of the highest quality Static Dissipative Tweezers, Scissors and Media Handling Tools for the Disk Drive Industry, manufactured by Ideal-Tek, Switzerland.

"JD" Ceramic Replaceable Tip Tweezers
"JD" Ceramic Tip Scissors
"PD" Polymer Replaceable Tip Tweezers
"PD" Polymer Molded Tweezers

To meet the critical ESD, Contamination & Handling Slider/HGA/HSA Application requirements, TDI provides the technical marketing/engineering interface with these Disk Drive Customers. Ideal-Tek in designing and manufacturing these Static Dissipative Tools provides the latest technologies in Engineering, Production and Quality, Including ISO9002 certification to assure specification compliance in providing these tools to the Disk Drive Industry.

TDI/Ideal-Tek's leadership in providing these static dissipative tools to the Disk Drive Industry significantly increased the disk drive manufacturing yields due to reduced ESD failures in handling disk drive Slider/HGA/HSA components in assembly.

TDI/Ideal-Tek provided the leadership in substantially reducing the cost of our Static Dissipative Tweezers with unique designs for replacement tips for these tools. The availability of these replacement tips versus complete tweezers replacement has provided a "Cost of Ownership" estimated reduction of 40%+ for the Disk Drive Industry.

TDI/Ideal-Tek also provided the leadership in developing materials and testing procedure to meet both the Contamination and ESD requirement s of the Disk Drive Industry.

TDI/Ideal-Tek has implemented comprehensive internally capability for all molding of static dissipative tweezers and tips for these disk drive tools. All of these polymer compounds are extensively contamination tested to assure disk drive industry specification standards compliance prior to approval release to mold production. The molding equipment is subjected to extensive cleaning and inspection to assure similar contamination compliance. All of these static dissipative tweezers and their shipping trays are subjected to final cleaning to assure surface contamination compliance for the Disk Drive Industry.

TDI/Ideal-Tek meets all of the criteria for ESD testing, as proposed by IDEMA. All of these testing procedures are performed internally, including critical "Transient Current Discharge" testing.

TDI maintains an extensive inventory of these tools for prompt delivery to the Disk Drive Industry, which are provided directly to the end user to assure the lowest cost for our customers.