Virtual Event - More than 80 individuals attended the 2020 CALCE-SMTA Symposium on Counterfeit Parts and Materials held between August 04-06, 2020. This year’s Symposium attracted a large cross-section of professionals from government, industry, business, and academia for three days of informative presentations and exchanges.
The symposium commenced with the opening talk by the conference chair, Dr. Diganta Das (CALCE) where he welcomed the attendees and gave a quick overview of the symposium and the schedule of events. The first two days of the event saw 17 presentations organized into six different sessions where many seasoned professionals examined various aspects of the electronic parts supply chain including current counterfeited parts and material statistics, standards, inspection, detection, traceability, and much more.
Dr. Richard Ott from USAF AFMC AFRL/RYDT delivered the keynote presentation on "Assurance: A Data-Driven Approach", where he discussed how the US military develops a data-driven assurance approach to minimize platform and infrastructure risk in order to eliminate counterfeit products. Conference Chair, Dr. Diganta Das, spoke about component level counterfeit detection techniques for Assemblies.
Other presentations covered a variety of topics such as tracking and tracing technologies, blockchain technology, cybersecurity, and various international standards to attenuate the problem of counterfeit products.
This symposium also included a "Professional Development Course" on the third and final day of the event where Cameron Shearon from Raytheon IDS and Michael Ford from Aegis Industrial Software jointly delivered a course on ‘Utilizing IPC-1782—Component Traceability—to Reduce Risk Associated with Ingress of Counterfeit Components.’ This course explained the implementation of an exact traceability program, based on IPC-1782, to lower the risk and cost of consequences associated with the ingress of counterfeit components.
Access to the conference proceedings can be requested via the CALCE website. The planning for the event for next year will begin soon and please keep your eyes on https://calce.umd.edu/
For more information visit: https://www.smta.org/
CALCE, the largest electronic products and systems research center focused on electronics reliability, is dedicated to providing a knowledge and resource base to support the development of competitive electronic components, products, and systems.
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