ESD can cause a range of important and harmful effects in the industry, including gas, fuel vapor and coal dust explosions, as well as failure of solid state electronic components such as integrated circuits. These can suffer permanent damage when subjected to high voltages. EMI, or Electromagnetic interference, is a disturbance generated by an external source that affects an electrical circuit by electromagnetic induction, electrostatic coupling, or conduction. The disturbance may degrade the performance of the circuit or even stop it from functioning. In the case of a data path, these effects can range from an increase in error rate to a total loss of the data. Viking Technology has gone through extensive steps to establish ESD and EMI safe products necessary for implementation in industrial-designed systems.