Panelists - Richard P. McDermott
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Richard P. McDermott (rmcd@Signakey.com) of SignaKey LLC will be one of the panelists for Panel on Electronic Part Authentication at the CALCE SMTA conference at College Park, Maryland on June 25th.
Richard believes that
in the ocean of legacy parts, the percentage of fakes swimming around will continue to increase annually as the ID's circulate product - hoping it will be hooked.
Counterfeiters no long slip their product into shipments - they spike the batch with a few genuine parts, fully aware of the supply chain weakness.
With Flow-down recourse from the DOD Final Rule - simple visual inspection and batch certification is no longer cost justifiable. AC/DC parametric testing per Level C of AS6081 now costs <$20 per part. Such individual component testing is an operand to authenticity.
Bio:
Dr. Richard McDermott earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Leeds University in 1974 at age 25 and emigrated to the US in 1975. He purchased his first business in 1981 from W R Grace. A self described serial entrepreneur, McDermott has owned and operated 30 businesses over the last 33 years - some of them start-ups, others as large as $420 million annual sales with 1,300 employees. He acquired SignaKey four years ago. It now has facilities in Michigan, Arizona, Massachusetts, Alton UK and Zug Switzerland. He received the SME Donald C. Burnham Award for Exceptional Success in Manufacturing in 2007. He was past Chairman, Production Engineering Division ASME, a fellow in SME and ASME and has held numerous board positions both in US and Europe.
Bio:
Dr. Richard McDermott earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Leeds University in 1974 at age 25 and emigrated to the US in 1975. He purchased his first business in 1981 from W R Grace. A self described serial entrepreneur, McDermott has owned and operated 30 businesses over the last 33 years - some of them start-ups, others as large as $420 million annual sales with 1,300 employees. He acquired SignaKey four years ago. It now has facilities in Michigan, Arizona, Massachusetts, Alton UK and Zug Switzerland. He received the SME Donald C. Burnham Award for Exceptional Success in Manufacturing in 2007. He was past Chairman, Production Engineering Division ASME, a fellow in SME and ASME and has held numerous board positions both in US and Europe.