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IEMI Readies Its Anti-Counterfeit Plan
IEMI Readies Its Anti-Counterfeit Plan
The International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative, an association of semiconductor OEMs, claims to have new ways to keep counterfeit components out of your supply chain. If it doesn't, it won't be for lack of effort. First envisioned way back in 2011, the project called for companies to donate a small amount of staff time -- about three hours a week -- to analyzing data from supply chain operations. The goal was to identify where the fake goods were most likely to wiggle into the production process.At first they identified four types of products that appeared most appealing to counterfeiters.
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