Supply Chain Strategies for Ensuring Business Continuity and Product Reliability
Thursday, June 12, 2025 (12 pm – 1 pm US EDT)
Abstract:
There is a complex supply chain of companies involved directly and indirectly in producing parts (e.g., components, sub-assemblies, materials) for the final product. It is necessary to select the parts and materials that have sufficient quality and are capable of delivering the expected performance for the targeted life cycle conditions over the life of the product to produce a reliable product.
Building and managing this information and cooperation infrastructure and keeping it up to date for the needs of customers and the market is a key reliability task for all organizations. The uncertainties and abrupt changes in policies may force organizations to abandon established supply chains and build new ones. In addition to the economic impacts of such changes, product quality and reliability will likely be adversely affected. Supply chain disruption such as the one we are presently going through can put companies out of business and create opportunities for unauthorized entities to inject substandard and counterfeit parts into the supply chain.
In this Webinar, Dr. Das will provide examples of policy changes that can impact companies, their impacts on the supply chain, and the practices one should build to protect themselves. The talk will cover manufacturer, part, and distributor assessments, avoidance of substandard and counterfeit parts, and part information management.
Speaker:
Dr. Diganta Das (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, B.Tech., Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology) is an Associate Research Scientist at the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering.
His expertise is in reliability, environmental and operational ratings of electronic parts, uprating, electronic part reprocessing, counterfeit electronics, technology trends in electronic parts, and parts selection and management methodologies.
He has been the technical editor for two IEEE standards and is currently vice chair of the standards group of the IEEE Reliability Society. He is a group leader for the SAE G-19 counterfeit detection standards group. He is the vice chair of the Standard Association in the IEEE Reliability Society and the working group chair on reliability prediction.
He has been the Founding Chair of the CALCE/SMTA Counterfeit Parts and Materials Symposium since 2007. He is chair of the SAE committee
For more information about the webinar, contact Dr. Diganta Das.
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