Circuits Assembly Online Magazine - IDEA Creates Components Manual to Combat Fradulent, Substandard Parts

To help independent distributors better identify and protect themselves against fraudulent and substandard parts, the Independent Distributors of Electronics Association (IDEA, Princeton Junction, NJ), a non-profit trade association that represents the independent market segment, recently announced the availability of its Electronic Components Inspection Manual.

The manual, available to IDEA members only, establishes general requirements for the receiving and inspection of electronic components by brokers, suppliers or independent testing laboratories.

IDEA created the manual with the following objectives in mind:

To obtain sufficient information through inspection activities at vendor and licensee/applicant facilities to assure part authenticity.
To ensure that vendors are complying with the applicable industry requirements.
To inform industry/vendors of instances involving substandard, suspected counterfeit or fraudulently marketed vendor products and to gather and provide timely information to system users.
To assure that counterfeit and fraudulently marketed products are traced to their source and that system users are informed and alerted of possible suspected parts.
To inform private and federal agencies of appropriate matters involving substandard products.
To assure that system users' programs and their subsidiaries, as applicable, have an effective system for reporting counterfeit and fraudulently marketed products.
To provide technical assistance to system users for identifying counterfeit and fraudulently marketed products.

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