What are Counterfeit parts?
Counterfeit Part - A fraudulent part that has been confirmed to be a copy, imitation, or substitute that has been represented, identified, or marked as genuine, and/or altered by a source without legal right with intent to mislead, deceive, or defraud.
Why Do We need to know about counterfeit?
It Provides references to existing standards and documents that deal with managing/mitigating the risk of receiving material or parts.
Introducing Counterfeit or Fraudulent if not, The result is non-conforming products being delivered through the Supply Chain, potentially right up to the end Customer. Directly or indirectly the person or the organization will be under threat of fraudulent. Eventually losing the customer.
Impact of Counterfeit
•It should be noted that the term “counterfeit” should be differentiated from other terms such as “unapproved parts”, “suspected unapproved parts”, “parallel trading markets”, and other definitions, all of which are defined differently. However, by definition, a “counterfeit part” is an “unapproved part”.
• The most recently accepted definitions used in the industry today come from AS5553 Revision A:
DEFINITIONS OF
•Suspect Part - A part in which there is an indication that it may have been misrepresented by the supplier or manufacturer and may meet the definition of fraudulent part or counterfeit part provided below.
•Fraudulent Part - Any suspect part misrepresented to the Customer as meeting the Customer’s requirements
Counterfeit Part - A fraudulent part that has been confirmed to be a copy, imitation, or substitute that has been represented, identified, or marked as genuine, and/or altered by a source without legal right with intent to mislead, deceive, or defraud.Introduction
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 The purpose of this section on Counterfeit Parts is to:
•Create guidance material to aid suppliers in addressing and providing direction to prevent the use of counterfeit and suspect unapproved parts
• Identify materials that provide self-help to
small/medium suppliers within the aviation,
space and defense industries and their supply chains
Industry Overview
Counterfeiting and counterfeit products have existed for centuries. Everything from currencies, clothes, handbags, food, toys, medicines, electronic components and almost any other product that is in high demand, short supply, and/or expensive has been copied and/or reproduced in one form or another. In essence, the problem starts when a person or organization, with criminal intent, succeeds in deliberately
. Most recently, one particular area that has presented a significant challenge is the manufacturing and distribution of electronic components such as integrated chips (IC) and resistors. Some offshore suppliers are even recycling and repackaging parts taken from crash sites and disposal sites to resell them as new products in the open market, especially through the internet.