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22
Mar
2024
Damir Akhoundov

2023 Annual Report
In 2023, ERAI reported a total of 786 suspect counterfeit and nonconforming parts showing a slight increase over the previous year. The significant d...
27
Jan
2023
Damir Akhoundov

2022 Annual Report
In 2022 ERAI reported a total of 768 suspect counterfeit and nonconforming parts showing a marked increase over the last three years. From 2021 to 20...
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Counterfeit Mitigation Training

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11
Nov
2020
ERAI, Inc.

How to spot a counterfeit - What is a counterfeit?
While a large focus in the industry remains on the dangers posed by counterfeit parts such as product failures, increased program costs, reduced relia...
05
Mar
2019
Anne-Liese Heinichen

TM-04 Counterfeit Inspection and Testing of Electronic Parts...
A new class has been added to InterCEPT’s suite of counterfeit inspection and testing of electronic parts study course. TM-04 provides an in-depth dis...
14
Feb
2018
Kristal Snider

Use Caution to Avoid Counterfeit Nichia Laser Diode Products
Nichia Corporation published a press release alerting customers a “large number” of counterfeit Nichia laser diode products have entered the supply ch...
09
Feb
2018
Mark Snider & Anne-Liese Heinichen

Do Cloned Parts Exist in the Market?

Let’s start with the definition of a cloned part. SAE Aerospace Standard AS6171 Test Methods Standard; General Requirements, Suspect/Counterfeit, Ele...
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Report a Part

Government and industry recognize the significance of information sharing. Reporting to ERAI is easy, free and open to any organization in the global supply chain.
18
Oct
2017
Anne-Liese Heinichen

How To Spot A Counterfeit Part- The Counterfeit Determinatio...
While most government and private organizations can agree upon the definition of a counterfeit part, how, who and when to label a part as counterfeit ...
03
Aug
2017
Kristal Snider

SAE AS6171 Improves Identification of Suspect Counterfeit EE...
Earlier this month, Advanced Component Testing, an independent electronic component test lab, performed a gap analysis between AS6171 and AS6081 to de...
01
Nov
2016
Anne-Liese Heinichen

SAE AS6171 (Test Methods Standard; General Requirements, Sus...
SAE International has just published AS6171 – Test Methods Standard; General Requirements, Suspect/Counterfeit, Electrical, Electronic and Electromech...
26
Jul
2016
Kristal Snider

Counterfeits and E-Waste – Your Voice Matters – Sign this Pe...
The federal government and the defense industry are enacting new policies and practices to prevent the introduction of counterfeit components into sup...
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Counterfeit Mitigation Training

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22
Jul
2016
Kristal Snider

US Senate designates July as anti-counterfeiting awareness m...
The US Senate has passed a resolution designating July as an anti-counterfeiting consumer awareness month.
18
Jul
2016
Kristal Snider

Unregulated E-Waste Keeps the Counterfeiters’ Funnel Full
It is 2016: fifteen years since China was admitted to the WTO and the first counterfeit part was reported to ERAI; a decade since ERAI’s President m...
11
Jul
2016
Kristal Snider

Authentic Parts Classified as Counterfeit and Seized by CBP ...
For more than a year, beginning in January 2014, a distributor in the U.S. placed eleven (11) orders for more than 16,000 pieces of Texas Instrument...
11
Mar
2016
Anne-Liese Heinichen

The Standards Development Process

As many of you know, ERAI staff is involved in the industry standards development process, specifically through SAE International. As a whole, SAE sta...
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05
Feb
2016
Kristal Snider

NEW Data Source Offered by ERAI Adds Additional Layer of Pro...
Since 2001 ERAI has been collecting and storing data on nonconforming and suspect counterfeit parts.  This searchable high risk and suspect counterfei...
22
Jan
2016

Chip Broker Sentenced After Supplying Falsely Remarked Compu...
On January 21, 2016, Warga was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to three years of probation and was ordered to pay a $10,0...
28
Dec
2015
Robert S. Metzger, Rogers Joseph O’Donnell, PC

Avoiding Counterfeit Electronic Parts. How DoD’s Proposed Ru...
On September 21, 2015, DoD published a Proposed Rule to modify its existing regulations on detection and avoidance of counterfeit electronic parts. 80...
14
Dec
2015

Chinese Nationals, (Doing Business as HK Potential), Have Be...
Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that three Chinese nationals have been arrested on federal cr...
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27
Oct
2015
Anne-Liese Heinichen

Survey Results are in - Lack of Communication and Trust Nega...
At this year’s ERAI Executive Conference, Jorge Garcia, Deputy Assistant Director, Trade and Assistant Director, Enforcement, Electronics Center of Ex...
09
Oct
2015
Damir Akhoundov

ERAI Counterfeit Photo Library

Over a year ago, ERAI compiled a library of photographs and a search engine to enable Members to locate images of specific part non-conformances speci...
29
Jul
2015
Kristal Snider

New York Man Admits Supplying Falsely Remarked Computer Chip...
On Tuesday July 28, 2015 the Department of Justice announced that Jeff Krantz, the former CEO of Harry Krantz LLC, entered a guilty plea to supplying ...
07
Mar
2015
Anne-Liese Heinichen

We Threw Military Electronics in the Trash – China Sold Them...
Learn how e-waste threatens the US Military and how more stringent waste and recycling policies can reduce the threat posed by counterfeit electronics...
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11
Feb
2015
Anne-Liese Heinichen

House Passes H.R. 810
House Passes H.R. 810 which revises counterfeit parts detection and avoidance requirements contained in NASA's supplement to the FAR. On February 10,...
20
Oct
2014
Anne-Liese Heinichen

New publication available from SAE- Counterfeit Electronic P...
Counterfeit Electronic Parts and Their Impact on Supply Chains examines how these items are negatively affecting the aviation, spacecraft, and defense...
17
May
2014
Robert S. Metzger

Making the Best of the Final DFARS re Counterfeit Parts
Finally, on May 6, 2014 the Department of Defense published a "final rule" to implement Section 818 of the FY 2012 National Defense Authorization Act....