SAE AS5553 and AS5553A Aviation Standards: Counterfeit Electronic Parts; Prevention, Detection, Reduction and Disposal

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This standard was developed because counterfeit electronic parts are increasingly entering the aviation supply chain, posing serious risks to performance, reliability and safety. The document has been expanded to ensure that the risks of counterfeit parts are reduced on a global scale and in electronic supply chains across different sectors. This standard provides common requirements, practices and methods to reduce the risks of acquiring and installing counterfeit parts.

Electronics industry organizations must produce and continually improve safe and reliable products that meet and exceed the requirements of customers and regulatory authorities. The globalization of the aviation industry and the resulting diversity of regional and national requirements have complicated this goal. Organizations that produce finished products face difficulty in ensuring the quality and integration of products purchased from suppliers worldwide and at all levels of the supply chain. Aviation suppliers and processors face the challenge of delivering products to multiple customers with varying quality expectations and requirements.

Aim

This SAE Aviation Standard aims to standardize the following practices:

1. Maximizing the availability of authentic parts,
2. Procuring parts from reliable sources,
3. Ensuring the authenticity and suitability of purchased parts,
4. To control suspected or confirmed counterfeit EEE parts,
5. To report suspected or confirmed counterfeit EEE parts to other potential users and relevant authorities,
6. To evaluate, reduce, control and report parts that are used, refurbished or recovered but are represented as new.