In an ideal world, components would only be purchased from the original producer, a franchised distributor or an approved non-franchised source. However, it’s never an ideal world. With the majority of components being counterfeited falling in the $1 to $10 range, this is a problem for all.

A simple approach to minimise counterfeit components passing through goods receipt to production is to create a component reference database. Reference components and images of known good components can be used for future comparison.  

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