Counterfeit Electronics

Course Overview
Course Outline
Past Customers
Related Texts

Instructors
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Course Overview

The course will cover various authentication techniques that are being used and developed to make counterfeiting of electronics more difficult. It will include overt and covert methods of authentications. The course will close with specific suggestions and recommendations how you can protect your supply chain including how to select distributors and monitor your suppliers. It will also have recommendations to the electronic part manufacturers, regulators, government enforcement and procurement agencies on how to reduce the risks from counterfeit electronic parts.

 

 

Course Outline

    1. Introduction to counterfeit electronic parts

      • Definition
      • Associated risks
      • Participants of the supply chain
      • Types of distributors
      • Distributor assessment

    2. Electronic part supply chain

    • Extent of the problem
    • Methods of generation of counterfeit parts
    • Examples

    3.Counterfeit parts: types and examples

      • Excess inventories
      • Original manufacturers scrapped parts
      • Reclamation of parts during recycling
      • A look at the future: shift of high tech manufacturing to industrializing economies

    4. Sources of counterfeit parts

      • Short term measures
        • Supply chain management
        • Authentication including inspection
      • Long term measures

    5. Mitigation techniques

    6. Part manufacturers anti-counterfeiting efforts

    7. Closure

 

Past Customers

  • COTS Conference (2007) - Cleveland
  • Defense Maintenance Workshop -Washington, DC
  • IPC Forum - Nevada

 

Related Texts

 

Contact


Michael Pecht
301-405-5323
education@calce.umd.edu
Bldg. 89, Rm. 1103
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742


 

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