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Counterfeit components represents far more than financial and reputational risk for the manufacturer. In some cases, human lives are very much at stake. Failure to properly safeguard supply chains against a rapidly expanding gray market of both substandard and outright counterfeit parts can have the direst consequences one can imagine. A recent article in the…
The issue of counterfeit electronic components unknowingly entering into OEM product designs has always been an inherent risk, but as counterfeit suppliers have gotten more sophisticated in their approach and have succeeded in entering designs ranging from life-saving medical devices to military equipment, the electronics industry has of late been rushing to uncover solutions to…
For every sign of progress regarding attempts to fight counterfeit issues in the electronics manufacturing industry, the more it becomes apparent that the industry has a long way to go before this dangerous risk is fully mitigated. For example, just this week, the U.S. Congress introduced the Secure E-Waste Export and Recycling Act (SERA), which…
As the electronic component market remains unstable and supply chain disruptions are becoming more commonplace, OEMs have quickly discovered the value of a proven obsolescence management strategy. As a result, several BOM monitoring systems have entered the marketplace, each with its own characteristics and limitations. To show how Partstat BOM Monitoring separates itself from any…
Obsolescence, in some form, impacts each and every industry that manufactures a product to meet the demands of a consumer base. But just as no two products have exactly the same design or function, no two products experience obsolescence in quite the same way. One of the most important factors in understanding how obsolescence will…
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. So goes Sir Issac Newton’s Third Law of Motion. The beauty of such a simple statement is that it can be applied to virtually every aspect of the physical universe, from apples falling on your head to specs of cosmic space dust. But this law…