CTI is a multi-discipline company providing engineering and consulting services, training courses, and component conferences. CTI staff and associates have over 100 years experience in components engineering, reliability assessments, failure investigations and organizing electronic component conferences, seminars, workshops, and training seminars.
CCAP – Counterfeit Components Avoidance Program
A Training Program has been developed for the electronic components supply chain organization on the avoidance of counterfeit electronic components.
A Certification Program has been developed for Independent Distributors, which establishes mandatory controls, inspections and tests for the detection and avoidance of counterfeit components.
THOMAS W. LEE
Mr. Lee is a Certified Project Manager by Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. He holds two undergraduate degrees in science and engineering from the University of New Mexico and the University of the State of New York. He is also a graduate of Arizona State University’s Advanced Business Administration Program, Motorola’s Management Development Program and GE’s Management Program at Crotonville, N.Y.
He has held technical, engineering, supervisory and management positions in semiconductor manufacturing, application and test at Syracuse University Research Corporation (SURC/SRC, radar), GE SPD and SSAO Semiconductor, Motorola Semiconductor Products, SEMATECH and Varian/Jabil. He wrote and instructed courses such as Counterfeit Component Detection and Elimination, Electrostatic Discharge Engineering and Failure Analysis Engineering. He taught an internal course on Electronics for Test Technicians, Supervisors and Purchasing within Varian, including electronic test-relevant High Voltage Safety with products such as Satellite uplink transmitters, Ion-Implantation equipment, Mass Spectrometers, and Radiation Oncology equipment.
He found that Counterfeit Components were affecting Test yields and productivity by generating the need for troubleshooting, concentrating at month-end as a “hockey-stick” production cycle with embedded rework, increasing overtime dollars. Working closely with the Purchasing Director, Purchasing Management and Suppliers, along with coaching individual Purchasers on the fundamentals of Electronic Component operation, he eliminated substandard Counterfeit Components from the Supply Chain without any significant increase in Component expenditures by modifying the Preferred Supplier List, using a Casebook of reports as backing for one-on-one interactive discussions to justify decisions.
He worked closely with both military and commercial prime customers and Legal staff to resolve significant post-production problems to the Customer’s satisfaction. He directly supervised staffs of 3 to 41 employees, wrote job descriptions, coached career development, conducted performance reviews and determined raises and promotions, working in close cooperation with HR to balance all aspects of the operation of educationally, experientially and culturally diverse groups with annual payrolls up to $1.6 Million.
He has authored more than 35 papers and articles and taught tutorials at the International Symposium on Testing and Failure Analysis (ISTFA), the International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS), and the EOS/ESD Symposium. He has served as General Chairman of ISTFA. He is Co-editor of the "Microelectronic Failure Analysis Desk Reference", used as a graduate-level EE textbook at the University of New Mexico and published a technical book on electrical engineering history.
Mr. Lee is currently a Project Manager and Tutorial Instructor in CTI’s Counterfeit Components Avoidance Workshop (CCAW), where he trains Independent Distributors of electronic components in setting up procedures and laboratories to prevent counterfeit components, particularly integrated circuits (ICs), from entering the military and medical supply chains. These workshops have been held in many US locations such as LA, San Jose, San Diego, Phoenix, Boston and Orlando, along with locations such as Paris, London and Glasgow, and are ongoing.