During the PCBA processing, these components may be overlooked, which will increase the failure, invalidation, and rework rates related to PCBA circuit boards. It has an impact on the overall profitability and risk value of SMT chip processing manufacturers, and has serious consequences in high reliability applications, especially in the medical and automotive industries. Therefore, before SMT processing and DIP plugins, these components must undergo some industry-specific tests to identify counterfeit electronic components, which is crucial. Manufacturers and suppliers have issued many standards and guidelines to establish and protect product traceability. As long as these practices are adhered to, the use of counterfeit electronic components in the production process can be eradicated, ensuring that the product is authentic electronic components. The three principles of ensuring no acquisition of counterfeit components, no use of counterfeit components, and no recommendation of components with unknown channels.

What is impersonating electronic components?

Counterfeiting electronic components is a counterfeit or non genuine component that has been misinterpreted in terms of its origin or quality. Forgery involves changing part numbers, repackaging, or mixing with better quality components to impersonate low-quality parts as high-quality ones.

Typical counterfeit electronic components:

1. The origin has not been approved.

2. Manufactured by unauthorized contractors instead of OCM (original component manufacturer).

3. Violation of original OCM planning, models, and performance standards.

4. Whether unqualified items are sold as new products.

5. There are incorrect files.