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Counterfeit Component Photographic Guide Now Available
January 23, 2009 |Estimated reading time: Less than a minute
The 10-page Counterfeit Component Photographic Guide is available at www.ASKbobwillis.com and was originally produced to accompany the Practical Failure Analysis Workshops run jointly with ITRI in St. Albans, UK. The photographic guide is ideal as a reference source to reduce the impact of counterfeit components on your organisation and is provided as an Acrobat pdf file.
The individual sheets can be printed at A4 for bench top reference or as A3 colour posters for reference at goods receipt inspection and can be updated with new samples provided for inclusion or new test methods and procedures
An on-site Counterfeit Components Workshop is also available to train staff on testing and identification of counterfeit parts, which is becoming a significant threat to the reliability and profitability of the electronics industry. The colour guide covers many of the following topics:
- Optical Inspection
- Solvent Testing
- Lead Inspection
- Component Packaging and Labelling
- Marking Durability
- X-Ray Analysis
- XRF Inspection
- Encapsulation.
For more information on the counterfeit guide, on-site workshop or testing services, contact bob@ASKbobwillis.com.