Counterfeit Electronics Education Hub
Understanding counterfeit electronic components — what they are, how they enter supply chains, what they cost, and how they are detected.
Pillars
What counterfeit electronic components are
Counterfeit and nonconforming electronic components: an ordered inspection sequence and a working taxonomy for identifying each type.
Pillar 2What counterfeit electronic components cost
The cost of counterfeit electronic components is not a single number. It accumulates across evidence uncertainty, verification, and rework.
Pillar 3Procurement channels
How the route from manufacturer to buyer shapes the evidence available for a lot: authorized, independent, and open-market channels.
Pillar 4Why supplier qualification is not enough
Supplier qualification decides who may supply; it does not verify what is in a given lot. Why component integrity is a per-delivery question.
Pillar 5Lot-level verification
How CILM selects verification depth for a specific procurement lot, using a four-level L0-L3 scale of progressively deeper evidence.
Pillar 6Detection methods and their limits
What documentary, physical, and analytical methods for evaluating suspect electronic components can establish, and why no result proves authenticity.
Pillar 7Measuring supply-chain risk
Why assessing a component or supplier is not the same as assessing a specific lot, and how CILM measures risk as evidence sufficiency.
Pillar 8The evidence base
An open, anonymised corpus of real pre-purchase procurement communications, published on IEEE DataPort, and the research question it opens.
Pillar 9Standards landscape
The established standards that govern counterfeit-part avoidance, testing, and distribution, and where CILM sits in relation to them.