The IPC-1783 Component Level Authentication Standard

Abstract: The forthcoming IPC-1783 Component Level Authentication standard establishes the methodology for absolute material authentication and manufacturing process provenance, from singular component materials, all the way through to final composite products, using a hierarchy of immutable identifiers. The intent of the standard is to provide a framework for new and existing manufacturing operations and associated supply-chain solutions, to be able to provide absolute assurance of material and process provenance for critical end-products.

The scope of IPC-1783 includes all electronic and mechanical materials, as well as non-physical components such as design data, software and firmware etc.

This set of presentations includes the following talks:

1. Michael Ford: An Overview of IPC-1783 Component Level Authentication (CLA)
2. Radu Diaconescu: Sovereign Identity for Products and Components. Authentication, Privacy and Security across Systems
3. David Mills: What is an Immutable ID?
4. Chad Butz: Immutable IDs and the Secure Supply-Chain

In all, we will show the reason why Component Level Authentication is needed by the industry going forward, in many safety critical applications, and how this can be achieved through the interoperability of solutions that the IPC-1783 standard represents, in a way that is cost effective throughout the industry.