Counterfeit components in electronics management

Annotated Bibliography
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Pecht, M. (2005). Parts Selection and Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
This book constitutes a detailed analysis on how electronic companies can minimize risks and boost profitability through effective components or parts selection and management. It also acknowledges the role of technology in product design besides outlining decision making approaches, product specifications and requirements assessment procedures, and management activities that can ensure efficient selection of electronic parts.
Bartels, B., Ermel, U., Sandborn, P., & Pecht, M. G. (2012). Strategies to the Prediction, Mitigation and Management of Product Obsolescence. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
This discusses management strategies that can be used to alleviate obsolescence among electronic products. It also examines supply chain issues and how semiconductor companies strive to produce cheaper products day after day at the expense of quality, and the effect this has on "long-field life products" such as ships and airplanes which use those electronic components for years if not decades.
Pecht, M. G. (2008). Prognostics and Health Management of Electronics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
This book constitutes an in-depth account on how PHM (Prognostics and Heath Management) technology can be employed in supply chain management to avert the problem of counterfeit parts and minimize product tampering. It also explores how PHM concepts such as useful-line estimations and precursors can be used to recall defective parts or finished electronic products. It also provides useful tips on how users/engineers can isolate and detect faulty components.
Ross, R. J., & EDFAS. (2011). Microelectronics Failure Analysis: Desk Reference (6th ed) . Ohio: ASM International.
This book identifies repackaging, refurbishing and relabeling as some of the aspects that aggravate proliferation of counterfeit electronic components. It goes ahead to provide a systematic management methodologies through which counterfeit parts can be detected. It also recommends effective management of the supply chain to minimize use of counterfeit components and reduce hefty costs incurred through tedious inspections.
Simchi-Levi, D. (2010). Operations Rules: Delivering Customer Value Through Flexible Operations. New York: MIT Press.
This book details management rules which can be employed to enhance operations performance and boost customer value. It identifies counterfeit components control as one of the key risk management strategies in electronic production. It also acknowledges the fact that, use of counterfeit computer and electronic components in communication networks, ships and warplanes is likely to result in numerous fatalities during military operations.
Pascoe, N. (2011). Reliability Technology: Principles and Practice of Failure Prevention in Electronic Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
This book describes in detail the practical processes that can be used in developing failure free electronic equipments. It identifies effective management of the lifecycle of electronic products as key differentiating fully damaged components from the operational ones. The book also identifies obsolescence of Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) designs as one of the major reasons why procurement departments are compelled to procure components, usually counterfeit, from ‘grey markets`.
Staake, T., & Fleisch, E. (2008). Countering Counterfeit Trade: Illicit Market Insights, Best-practice Strategies, and Management Toolbox. New York: Springer.
This book details strategies and management practices that can be employed in counteracting counterfeit electronic components. It identifies rampancy of counterfeit electronic parts in markets such as China where, where imitation components are sold cheaply and openly as alternatives to genuine components.
BIS. (2009). Defense Industrial Base Assessment: Counterfeit Electronics. Washington, DC: Bureau of Industry and Security.
This publication explores the effects of counterfeit electronics on the reliability of the American weapon systems. It recognizes the need for proper management of the industrial supply chains and use of best practices to prevent infiltration of bogus electronics into the defense forces.
Chaplain, C. T. (2011). Space and Missile Defense Acquisitions: Periodic Assessment Needed to Correct Parts Quality Problems in Major Programs. Washington, DC: DIANE Publishing.
The document explores quality problems associated with counterfeit electronic parts that have either endangered, stopped, delayed or heavily cost space missions. It attributes deterioration of parts quality to influx of counterfeit electronic components as contractors misrepresent the identity of electronic components knowingly and hence, the need for an elaborate anti-counterfeiting strategy.
Battersby, C. (2010). The Counterfeit Electronic Components Minefield: Version 2 : a Guide to Understanding, Detecting, Avoiding Purchasing and Using Counterfeit Electronic Components. Washington, DC: Component Obsolescence Group.
This document provides a step by step guide on how defense organization can avoid procurement and use of counterfeit electronic parts. It details the implications of proper procurement management efforts on the quality of the sourced electronic parts. It also explores the impacts of poor quality components on personnel working in a minefield.
Yager, L. (2011). Intellectual Property: Observations on Efforts to Quantify the Economic Effects of Counterfeit and Pirated . Washington, DC: DIANE Publishing.
This congressional publication explores intellectual property issues that are brought about counterfeiting of electronic components. The report asserts that about 40% of industrial and U.S. defense supply chains encounter counterfeit circuit boards and microcircuits, components that pose a major threat to national security operations.
Fowler, K. (2009). Mission-Critical and Safety-Critical Systems Handbook: Design and Development for Embedded Applications. Oxford: Newnes.
The book identifies counterfeit components as one of the major issues affecting commercial off-the-shelf (COTs) components. It also recognizes use of such prohibited materials as cadmium, zinc and tin in counterfeit electronic parts which can only be detected using special equipments. It also identifies resistors, capacitors and ICs as some of the most counterfeited components.
Johnson, T. A. (2012). Power, National Security, and Transformational Global Events: Challenges Confronting America, China, and Iran. New York: CRC Press.
This book discusses supply chain security as one of the numerous factors that influence power and national security. It relates influx of counterfeit components to inadequate supply chain security where substandard computer processors and microchips infiltrate the supply chain. It offers statistics on counterfeit parts impounded on their way from China.
Rogers. (2007). Counterfeiting Electronic Components. Electrical design news , 52 (20), 58-70.
This journal article attributes the increased counterfeiting of electronic parts to contract manufacturing and difficulties distinguishing between a fake and a genuine component. It also contains a survey report which puts the quantity of counterfeits at 10%...