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I would like to acknowledge my debt to all the experts in the field of ESD control and standardization who through discussions and published work have contributed to the current state of my understanding. I am also indebted to all my clients and course attendees who have challenged me to clarify, explain and justify effective ESD control techniques applied in many different situations.

I would especially like to thank David E Swenson for his comments on the text and for contributing photographs and other material, and for writing the Foreword, as well as for many enlightening discussions over the years. Dave performed the extraordinary feat of reading and commenting on almost all the draft Chapters at least once. This helped enormously in picking up my mistakes and typographic errors, adding or clarifying important points and generally improving my work.

Several other friends and colleagues have also very kindly read and commented on Chapters of this book and encouraged me in this work. Special thanks are due to Rainer Pfeifle, Charvakka Duvvury and Christian Hinz who each reviewed and commented on various Chapters in detail. Bob Willis also contributed comments, and Charles Cawthorne kindly provided me some photographs from his own ESD training materials. Lloyd Lawrenson kindly allowed me to use Kaisertech facilities for some of my photography. I'm indebted to Lisa Pimpinella of the ESD Association for arranging permission for me to include figures from the 2016 ESD Association Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Technology Roadmap.

Last, but definitely not least, I would like to thank my wife Jan for her good‐natured tolerance of my absent mindedness and lack of communication when engrossed in my work, and my daughter Alia for helping improve some of my photographs in preparation for publication in this book.