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Editorial policy

How the material on cilm.tech is produced, sourced, and corrected.

This page explains how the material on cilm.tech is produced, sourced, and corrected, and what interests the author holds.

Sourcing

Every factual claim on this site carries a citation to a public source that the reader can check.

Claims are accepted only from:

  • U.S. Government Accountability Office reports
  • ERAI incident data and reporting
  • IDEA (Independent Distributors of Electronics Association)
  • SAE International, IEC, and IEEE standards and publications, cited by scope and never reproduced
  • Peer-reviewed literature bearing a DOI
  • Named regulator filings and public incident reports
  • The author’s own published work, cited by DOI

If a figure cannot be traced to one of these, it does not appear here. Where a scenario is illustrative rather than documented, it is labelled as such on the page.

The site’s build process enforces this: a page cannot be published until every claim it contains carries a source, a source URL, and an explicit verification flag.

Industry standards referenced on this site are commercial documents. Their scope and purpose are described in original prose; their text is not reproduced. Readers are directed to the publishers.

Illustrations

All illustrations are original. No stock photography is used. Illustrations exist to make a specific claim legible; decorative imagery is removed.

Where a consequence is depicted, it is depicted as a diagram. This site does not illustrate injury, death, or harm.

How this site is made

The site’s technical scaffold — layouts, components, and structured data — was developed using Bolt. The content was written, sourced, and reviewed by the author. No article text on this site is machine-generated. The author used automated translation tools in preparing this site. All published content has been reviewed by the author prior to publication.

Interests and independence

The author is commercially engaged in the distribution of electronic components. This is disclosed because it is material: it is the source of the operational knowledge presented here, and it is also a commercial interest.

Accordingly:

  • This site is not funded, sponsored, or reviewed by any distributor, manufacturer, or laboratory.
  • No product, supplier, distributor, or testing service is named, recommended, or compared.
  • No advertising, affiliate links, or sponsored content appear here.
  • Nothing on this site constitutes a commercial recommendation.

CILM was developed independently of any employer and is presented on its own evidence.

cilm.tech is published by Alexander L. Litvin, author of the CILM methodology. Related sites under the same authorship: cilm-standard.com (methodology reference) and alexander-litvin.com (author profile). This relationship is stated openly rather than concealed.

Corrections

If you find an error, write to contact@cilm.tech.

Substantive corrections are made to the page and noted at the foot of it with the date of the correction and what changed. Minor fixes — typography, broken links — are made silently.

The author is responsible for every claim on this site.