Component Shortages and Long Lead-Times Create Perfect Storm for Counterfeiters

EBN WTS AI Cardoso e1519285179617

By Dr. Bill Cardoso, Creative Electron
I read with interest ‘How to Survive the Ongoing Component Shortage’ on EMSNOW this week. This was not news, we have been hearing about component shortages for some months now and it was always going to be a challenge for 2018, but with these long lead-times comes another problem, that of counterfeit components.