View Presentation (PDF)

View Recorded Presentation (WMV)

Changes in electronic supply chain had been fast and furious in the last decades and its impact on the practices of companies is still evolving. Managing the supply chain and ensuring that the the components and raw materials are of the right kind is necessary to build a high quality and consistent product. One of the ways to ensure that the parts and raw materials are authentic is to have them "marked" at its manufacturing point and let the supply chain have the ability to identify if the received materials ate authentic. This seminar will discuss the various methods for authenticating parts and raw materials. In particular, applications of such methods in prevention and containment of counterfeit electronic parts will be discussed.

About the Presenter: Dr. Diganta Das (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, B.Tech, Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology) is a member of the research staff at the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering. His expertise is in reliability, environmental and operational ratings of electronic parts, uprating, electronic part reprocessing, counterfeit electronics, technology trends in the electronic parts and parts selection and management methodologies. He performs benchmarking processes and organizations of electronics companies for parts selection and management and reliability practices.

He is an editorial board member for the journal Microelectronics Reliability and Circuit World. He is a Six Sigma Black Belt and a member of IEEE, IMAPS and SMTA.