TESTING SERVICES

AS6496 : Fraudulent/Counterfeit Electronic Parts: Avoidance, Detection, Mitigation, and Disposition – Authorized/Franchised Distribution
SAE AS6496 REQUIREMENTS
1. Counterfeit Mitigation Policy – The Organization’s top management shall define and document its policy intended to prevent the purchase, acceptance, and distribution of Fraudulent/Counterfeit Parts.
2. Counterfeit Electronic Parts Control Plan – The Organization shall develop and implement a Counterfeit Electronic Parts Control Plan that documents its processes
used for risk mitigation, disposition, and reporting of suspected and confirmed Counterfeit Parts.
3. Customer Related Processes – The Organization shall disclose in writing at the time of quotation if it is not authorized for the item(s) being quoted. If authorization is terminated prior to the performance of the Customer contract, the Customer shall be notified.
4. Register of Suppliers – The Organization shall maintain a register of Suppliers that includes authorization status, approval status, and the scope of the approval.
The Organization shall purchase Parts for resale only from the Manufacturer or the same Manufacturer’s Authorized Distributor where the Organization is authorized.
5. Military Parts – Military Parts delivered by the Organization shall be accompanied by a copy of the Manufacturer’s certification and the Organization’s certificate of conformance, normally on the Organization’s pack list, in compliance with the applicable military standard (i.e., QML/QPL).
6. Control of Suspect, Fraudulent and Confirmed Counterfeit Parts – The Organization’s counterfeit electronics control plan shall include a process to evaluate and minimize the risk associated with potential counterfeit product infiltrating into their inventory.
7. Training – The Organization shall train applicable employees on counterfeit awareness including detection and mitigation as appropriate.
8. Scrap Control in Authorized Distribution – Because the source of some counterfeits is material scrapped by entities in the supply chain, the Organization shall maintain scrap control in accordance with their QMS procedures.
9. Inventory Control Plan – The Organization shall have a system for controlling its inventory. The inventory control system shall provide for traceability of customer returned Parts. Records shall be maintained in accordance with the Organization’s retention policy.
10. Reporting – The documented processes shall assure that all occurrences of Counterfeit Parts are reported, as appropriate, to internal organizations, affected Customers, Authority Having Jurisdiction, and government reporting organizations (e.g., GIDEP). External reporting shall include the Manufacturer’s response if provided.
11. Audits – The Organization’s internal audit program required by their QMS shall include periodic internal auditing to assess compliance to AS6496 requirements and shall be subject to third party QMS audits.

AS6171 : Test Methods Standard; General Requirements, Suspect/Counterfeit, Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Parts
This document standardizes requirements, practices, and methods for testing EEE parts and detecting Suspect/ Counterfeit parts, to thereby ensure consistency across the supply chain for test requirements.

SAE AS6171 REQUIREMENTS
1. Risk Assessment – The purpose of risk assessment is to determine the recommended level of testing that should be utilized to manage the risk associated with the use of a part procured through an unauthorized supplier.
2. Test Sequence Overview – The risk assessment models established a tier level methodology based on a risk assessment utilizing a risk analysis of the product, component, supplier, other adjustment factors and an assessment of test coverage based on the known counterfeit defect types from the different test methods in the standard.
3. Testing Requirements and Minimum Tier Level Testing – If a User organization with a Cognizant Engineer requires a higher tier level of testing than has already been performed on the same lot of parts, then only the additional testing is to be performed.
4. Suspect/Counterfeit (SC) Part Detection Sequence – The SC Parts Detection Sequence has been established based on inspection and testing of parts by selecting the least costly inspections that are most effective, and easiest to perform first, and then to build upon results of previous testing in accordance with the sequence to build confidence in the results.
5. Sampling Plan – The sampling plan is derived from the General Specification for Microcircuits, MIL-PRF-38535. No indications that the part is suspect counterfeit are allowed. If such an indication is detected and a part is determined to be a suspect/counterfeit part, then this part is considered to have failed the test and the testing of the lot shall be halted. Upon notification, the Requester will have the option to resume testing.
6. Test Plan –When required by the Requester: A Test Plan shall be generated by the Test Laboratory to document how it plans to implement the requested SOW and/or PO. A device-specific Test Plan should be agreed upon between the Requester and Test Lab before testing is initiated.
7. Analysis and Interpretation of Test Results – An important constituent of the CP Inspection/Screening process is for the Test Laboratory to analyze the test results in order to prepare the final report. This effort should be made in consultation with the Requester and when possible the User, if there is an indication of suspect/counterfeit part(s). This consultation effort is important in the event a suspect counterfeit part is discovered. This situation may require additional verification testing or documentation, if requested by the Requester or User.
8. Test Report – The Test Report shall be generated by the Test Lab Engineer to document how the Test Laboratory followed the Test Plan to implement the requested counterfeit parts inspection request from the Requester.
9. Training, Qualification, and Certification – All Personnel performing work affecting product quality shall be competent on the basis of appropriate education, training, skills and experience.
10. Data and Report Retention Requirements – The Test Laboratory is to observe the following requirements in the recording and retention of test data and test reports: Recording of data shall be in conformance with the request from the Requester. All test data and test reports supplied to the Requester shall be retained by the Test Laboratory for a minimum of 10 years, or longer if specified by agreement with the Requester, in a manner to protect against damage from fire, flood, and other environmental hazards.

SAE AS5553 & AS5553A Aerospace Standards: Counterfeit Electronic Parts; Avoidance, Detection, Mitigation, and Disposition

RATIONALE
This standard was originally created in response to a significant and increasing volume of fraudulent/counterfeit electronic parts entering the aerospace supply chain, posing significant performance, reliability and safety risks. This document has subsequently been expanded to address fraudulent/counterfeit risk mitigation on a global scale across multi-sector electronic supply chain industries and to provide uniform requirements, practices and methods to mitigate the risks of receiving and installing fraudulent/counterfeit electronic parts.
To meet customer requirements, electronics industry organizations must produce, and continually improve, safe and reliable products that meet or exceed customer and regulatory authority requirements. The globalization of the aerospace industry and the resulting diversity of regional/national requirements and expectations have complicated this objective. End-product organizations face the challenge of assuring the quality and integration of products purchased from suppliers throughout the world and at all levels within the supply chain. Aerospace suppliers and processors face the challenge of
delivering a product to multiple customers having varying quality expectations and requirements.
Purpose
This SAE Aerospace Standard standardizes practices to:
1. Maximize availability of authentic parts
2. Procure parts from reliable sources
3. Assure authenticity and conformance of procured parts
4. Control suspect or confirmed fraudulent/counterfeit EEE parts
5. Report suspect or confirmed fraudulent/counterfeit EEE parts to other potential users and Authority Having Jurisdiction.
6. Assess, mitigate, control, and report parts which have been used, refurbished, or reclaimed, but represented as new product.

CCAP-101 : COUNTERFEIT COMPONENTS AVOIDANCE PROGRAM, CERTIFICATION 
Purpose: Establishing standard procedures for the authentication of electronic components, integrated circuits, hybrid microcircuits,semiconductors, transistors, diodes, capacitors and resistors, thereby decreasing the risk of counterfeits entering a customer’s supply chain.

CCAP-101 REQUIREMENTS
1. Definitions – The CTI Inc. document, which describes the program requirements to be utilized by Independent Distributors, selling electronic components as certified to the Counterfeit Components Avoidance Procedures.
2. Agreements – CCAP-101 Certified components shall not be supplied to other IDs. Neither the ID nor the Customer have the authority to change, modify or delete any of the specified component authentication practices specified herein. By mutual agreement the customer and ID may specify additional services such as electrical tests, tape & reeling, reballing BGAs, programming etc. after the authenticity of components has been established.
3. Warranty – Components that are inspected, tested and delivered by the selling ID, whether the verification is performed in house or by a contract laboratory to this Certification Program, shall be fully warranted by the ID for one (1) year minimum to be authentic to the Original Component Manufacturers (OCM) data sheet or military specifications, as applicable.
4. Quality system – The ID’s quality system and counterfeit avoidance procedures are subject to review and analysis with appropriate notice by the customer representative and/or authorized Government representatives. This includes surveillance of products, systems, procedures, facilities and records associated with components they have purchased.
5. Procedure control – The ID shall establish and maintain a system to control and distribute the procedures that implement the requirements of this document.
6. Records – All records shall be in accordance with ISO 9001 or equivalent and this document.
7. Inventory control – The ID shall have a system for controlling inventory of CCAP-101 certified product.
8. Electro-static discharge (ESD) – Safe handling procedure – The ID’s system for electro-static discharge sensitive (ESDS) components protection shall be in compliance with the latest revision of ANSI/ESD S20.20 with periodic verification and testing of ESD suppression and detection equipment.
9. Receiving, inspection, storing, packing, and shipping products –The ID’s receiving, inspecting, storing, packing and shipping procedures shall prevent mechanical or electrical damage and degradation of the components in their possession. All packing materials shall be either conductive or antistatic, including tubes, trays, reels, bags, and fillers.
10. Inspection, test status and traceability – The ID shall provide a means to identify the authentication inspection status of all components throughout inspection, handling, processing, and storage.
11. Calibration of equipment – The ID and their approved contract laboratories shall calibrate and maintain all inspection, measuring and testing equipment that is used for authentication or counterfeit detection activities in accordance with ANSI/NCSL Z540-1, whether owned or leased, by the ID or sub-contractor. Repair and calibration records shall be maintained in accordance with the provisions of ANSI/NCSL Z540-1.
12. Customer returns – Components returned to the ID from a customer shall be quarantined until they can be inspected for any evidence of alteration, mishandling or improper packaging. Components returned as being counterfeits shall be quarantined in a locked secured area until they can be investigated to determine their authenticity or lack thereof.
13. Training – The ID shall identify the training needs and provide for the training of all personnel in the proper handling of components and performing the authentication & counterfeit detection procedures required for this Program.
14. Certification audits and approvals – A non-certified ID shall not claim compliance to the CCAP-101 Program, which is protected by “Copyright and Trade Mark” and for which use must be approved by CTI.
15. ID location – The ID shall identify the location where Certified Components are inspected, tested and processed pursuant to the Counterfeit Components Avoidance Program. The ID shall identify and provide to CTI all subcontractors and their services, which are used to determine component authenticity.

Introduction: Quality Management System (QMS) that meets the criteria set forth in JESD31; a counterfeit mitigation program per AS6081; and complies with the provisions and clauses of each solicitation and purchase order/contract for items in FSCs 5961 and 5962 and complies with all of the Criteria and Provisions of this document. The objective of the QTSL Program is to ensure that the distributor continuously controls its processes to provide consistent delivery of products that conform to the contract/purchase order specification requirements and mitigate the risk of nonconforming or counterfeit product from entering the supply chain.

IDEA-STD-1010-B: Acceptability of Electronic Components Distributed in the Open Market
Purpose: This Standard was developed and published by the Independent Distributors of Electronics Association (IDEA) to enhance risk mitigation strategies specifically associated with the procurement, inspection, and sale of goods within the Open Market.
As part of fulfilling its purpose, IDEA has produced this update to the Standard entitled IDEA-STD-1010 B: Acceptability of Electronic Components Distributed in the Open Market. IDEA works to establish and improve quality standards, to facilitate effective communication, and to promote successful business transactions, thereby further assuring customer satisfaction in the industry.