An Overview of the Revision of SAE AS6171: Standard for Detection of Counterfeit EEE Parts

Michael Azarian [University of Maryland]

Abstract: 

After significant document development and revision, the SAE G-19A committee is preparing to release a major update to AS6171, the test methods standard for detection of suspect/counterfeit electrical, electronic, and electromechanical (EEE) parts.
This presentation will review the principal changes to the requirements for test laboratories following the standard, including those governing the default test set, sampling, reporting, and flow down of requirements to subcontracted test labs. The scope of the standard has been expanded to include tampered parts and assemblies. In addition to revisions to several existing test methods, a number of new test methods have been developed. These changes will be summarized and the new methods introduced, preparing stakeholders for the impact that these developments will have for counterfeit detection in the coming years.

Biography: 

Dr. Michael H. Azarian is a research scientist at the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) at the University of Maryland. He holds a Master's and Ph.D. in Materials Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University. Dr. Azarian’s primary research interests are detection, prediction, and analysis of failures in electronic components and assemblies. He has over 150 publications on electronics reliability and packaging, prognostics and health management, and tribology, and holds 6 U.S. patents. Prior to joining CALCE, he spent over a dozen years in the disk drive and fiber optics industries, having worked at Bookham Technology, W.L. Gore, Censtor, and Philips Research Laboratories. Dr. Azarian is chair of the SAE G-19A Test Laboratory Standards Development Committee which is responsible for the AS6171 family of standards on the detection of counterfeit electrical, electronic, and electromechanical parts. He is also co-chairman of the Miscellaneous Techniques sub-group of the G-19A committee. He chairs the working group responsible for the IEEE 1624 standard on the organizational reliability capability of suppliers of electronic products. He was previously chair for the IEEE 1332 Standard on reliability programs.

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