Counterfeit IC Components - Protection through Detection
The U.S. Government (Patent & Trademark Office) estimates the economic damage due to counterfeiting is in excess of $250 Billion.
Countermeasures
Professional Organizations, including AGMA (Alliance for Gray Market & Counterfeit Abatement; IDEA (Independent Distributors of Electronics Association) and others are promoting best practices to reduce the incidence of counterfeit electronic components entering supply chains.
Government co-operative programs such as GIDEP (Government-Industry Data Exchange Program) continue to reduce this threat through sharing of essential technical information. Since GIDEPs inception, participants have reported savings in excess of 1 billion in unplanned expenditures.
The Challenges
With increasing levels of sophistication Counterfeiters are finding new paths to get their goods into the U.S. supply chain. It's a common mis-conception that risks are minimal so long as components are purchased through authorized distributors.
All of the supply chain is at risk. Even franchised distributors are at risk when surplus stock is returned for re-sale, as at this point, the potential exists for real parts to be co-mingled with counterfeit ones.
The Solutions
Left Coast Instruments, Inc is your complete supply point for all equipment needs for counterfeit IC protection. For the unequivocal verification of plastic IC components we offer: RKD Engineering guarantee all their products to be free of counterfeit components:
- Elite Etch IC Decapsulator- the Fast Dual Acid Decapsulator - ideal for economical IC package decapsulation. The Elite Etch has the most comprehensive warranty in the industry - as Standard, a Two Year Total System Warranty plus a 6 years warranty on the pump, a lifetime warrenty against etch head clogging and a lifetime warranty against etch head against cracking, thermal stress or corrosion.
- Elite Etch, the Fast IC Decapsulator uses half the acid when compared to other brands. This means twice the acid savings and half the acid remediation costs!
- MicroMill - a precision mini-CNC that lets you make you own gaskets and fixtures, and cut through heat sinks, saving you both time and money.
- Our new product the NanoMill is a lower cost alternative for the removal of heat sinks and for making gaskets - providing the same precision micro CNC accuracy and ease-of-use but with a smaller footprint
For information on the NanoMill please contact us via telephone or email.
For more details on the RKD Engineerings Fast Decapsulator Elite Etch please download brochure
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