More Questions: What's Next in Fighting Component Counterfeiting
Posted by Jenny Miller on Tue, Jun 08, 2010 @ 07:24 AM
It's here! The CALCE Symposium on Counterfeit Electronics begins today.
In Part I of our blog looking forward to the CALCE Symposium on Counterfeit Electronics, we talked about the scope of the counterfeiting problem within the electronic components industry. Today we want to talk about the future: questions we're going to be asking at the CALCE conference to determine how we're going to attack this problem in the days ahead.
Our questions look to these areas:
1. Are there any industry wide initiatives to combat counterfeiting?
2. What is the role that the government is playing in all of this? How effective will their role be?
3. Are there any software initiatives associated with the component counterfeiting problem?
4. What is GIDEP doing about this matter? Are they providing listings of problem parts/vendors?
5. What are some of the best practices that companies are employing in this arena?
6. How do companies envision getting out in front of the component counterfeiting issue? How do they plan on approaching this problem proactively rather than reactively?
The CALCE conference promises to be a forum inviting these questions and hopefully providing strategies to employ moving forward.
Again, we're tweeting the specific stats that provoked these questions...follow us on twitter @ ICTrends to get the facts and figures associated with the staggeringly large business of counterfeiting.