Register here for the CALCE SMTA Counterfeit Electronic Parts and Electronic Supply Chain Conference

Overview There is NO alternative to good supply chain management as a defense against counterfeit parts. Much of the problem regarding counterfeit electronics is due to lack of due diligence by the part buyers. Understanding of the supply chain and assessing the supply chain before engaging them are necessary steps for any organization. Many types of products that have to be manufactured and supported for long periods of time lack control over critical parts of their supply chain, e.g., avionics and space, telecom infrastructure, and industrial controls. As a result, the components and technologies that these products depend on become obsolete long before the product's field life (and sometimes manufacturing life) ends. One of the reasons of companies becoming victim of counterfeit electronics is lack of planning for obsolescence and making distress purchase from unauthorized sources. This whole day workshop will cover both the areas for the attendees. Electronic Part Supply Chain Participant Evolution Assessment of Electronic Part Manufacturers and Parts Assessment of Electronic Part Distributors Methods and Case Study Standards How to Assess and Utilize Process Change Notices Introduction and examples Use in counterfeit detection Use of Authentication Tools and Taggants DNA Based Ceramic Based Polymer Based Creating a Supply Chain and Logistics Network for Taggants Obsolescence Forecasting Ordinal scale approaches Data mining approaches Obsolescence Mitigation Overview of mitigation approaches Lifetime/bridge buy . buy size determination DMSMS Management Plan Development Reactive vs. pro-active management Measuring system health Strategic Obsolescence Management Simple net present value based models Refresh planning

Who Should Participate Supply chain managers Design engineers Logistics managers Legal professionals Policy makers on counterfeit prevention Engineers in electronic part selection and management groups System sustainment organizations DMSMS managers Instructors Diganta Das and Peter Sandborn Peter Sandborn is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) at the University of Maryland. His research interests include electronic part obsolescence management (including forecasting, mitigation and refresh planning), prognostics and health management for electronic systems (including optimal application of PHM to systems, and design for availability), technology tradeoff analysis for electronic packaging, parts selection and management for electronic systems, and system life-cycle and risk economics. He has also done work on return on investment, design for availability, and maintenance optimization for wind turbines and wind farms. Prior to joining the University of Maryland, he was a founder and Chief Technical Officer of Savantage, Inc. Dr. Sandborn has a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan and is the author of over 200 technical publications and books on multichip module design, electronic parts, and cost modeling. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, a member of the Board of Directors for the International PHM Society, and a Fellow of the IEEE and ASME. Click here to go to his web site. 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. His current research interests include electronic parts supply chain, counterfeit electronics avoidance and detection, light emitting diode failure mechanisms, cooling systems in telecommunications infrastructure and their impact on reliability, and power electronics reliability. In addition, Dr. Das is involved in prognostics based risk mitigation of electronics. Dr. Das has published more than 75 articles on these subjects, and presented his research at international conferences and workshops. He had been the technical editor for two IEEE standards and is currently vice chair of the standards group of IEEE Reliability Society. He is a sub group leader for the SAE G-19 counterfeit detection standards group. Dr. Das leads the Educational Outreach of CALCE with responsibility to develop inter-organizational agreements on joint educational programs, training and internship program, and professional development. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Microelectronics Reliability. He is a Six Sigma Black Belt and a member of IEEE, IMAPS and SMTA.