ESCS Continues to Support FIRST ........ Team Krunch 79

FIRST= For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
FIRST is a international organization that unites high school students such as our team KRUNCH 79 East Lake High School in Florida with Honeywell engineers and adult mentors to build a robot that will compete at regional and national competitions. Internationally, 156,000 students, countless engineers, and many other mentors around the world participate in FIRST. The number of teams has grown from 28 in 1992 to about 1500. Along the way, students learn concepts related to engineering, programming, and advanced computer software such as AutoDesk 3D Studio Max, AutoDesk Inventor, and C compilers. Students get a hands-on perspective of the engineering field and workplace.
FIRST is about more than just robots. At competitions, teams are always willing to help each other by supplying extra parts or by volunteering to help another team. This atmosphere is the result of FIRST’s coined phrase: “Gracious Professionalism.”
The Chairman’s Award is the most prestigious single award at any FIRST competition This award solely based on communication, organization, and creating inspiration in other people’s lives. The Chairman’s Award, is given to teams who effectively spread the FIRST message and inspire youth to become more interested in science and technology. Winners of this award are inducted into the FIRST Hall of Fame. Team KRUNCH is one of the only teams to receive 6 awards and in 2008 it received it’s second Governor’s award.
At the beginning of January, the teams view a live telecast presented by the FIRST founders, which explain this year’s challenge. The teams are given a kit of parts and have roughly six weeks to design and build a very competitive robot. At the end of the six weeks, the robot must be shipped to the team’s first regional competition.
The competitions are very exciting, but you find a level of cooperation which is not present at typical sporting events. Teams are friendly, helpful, and encouraging to all of their opponents. The robots play in randomly selected alliances and must be ready to be united with any team.
Teams that win a regional competition or the Chairman’s Award go on to the national competition held in April in Atlanta GA
Electronic Supply Chain Solutions continues it’s sponsorship of Team KRUNCH 79 in 2008 along with many Honeywell engineers and mentors. Read this EE Times Article to learn more
Visit http://escs9120.com/roboticsframe.htm to see ESCS Sponsorship of Robotics
For more info about FIRST, go to: http://www.usfirst.org/who/default.aspx?id=34

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ESCS Guides it's Customers to Combat Counterfeits

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ESCS Electronic Supply Chain Solutions a well known education based electronic component distributor is leading the way to a safer supply chain by providing valuble industry related content!

If you are not preparing, educating and protecting your company, then you need to STOP.
While many customers have visited ESCS’s site that addresses counterfeiting, the enormous amount of valuable content requires a little digging. Feedback has been very positive so ESCS has created several hot links below to showcase content that may be missed on a quick glance.
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OASIS Database provides subjective evidence of ESCS Aerospace Certification

(OASIS) On-line Aerospace Supplier Information System OASIS, what is it? OASIS is the web-based International Aerospace Quality Group (IAQG) database containing information on all AS9100 for manufacturers, AS9110 for repair and overhaul shops and AS9120 Stockist distributors all of whom are registered companies. The database displays the results of all AS9100, AS9110 or AS9120 aerospace assessments performed (including its latest score), as well as general company information.
OASIS is the resource companies should use to determine that a supplier has an Aerospace certification that demonstrates subjective evidence of a quality management system that goes beyond the ISO 9001 standard utilized by commercial companies.
The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) administers the OASIS database for the aerospace scheme. Inputs for updating the OASIS database are provided by your aerospace auditors to SAE after completion of an AS9100, AS9110 or AS9120 assessment visit.
All AS9100, AS9110 and AS9120 registered clients should currently have access to the OASIS database. Each aerospace registered client should verify all information relating their company is correct, specifically the latest assessment score for their most recent aerospace audit.
If your supplier states that they are certified and they are not listed further investigations should be made to substantiate their claims. REGISTRATION TO OASIS IS FREE
To register for access to the OASIS database for viewing any company’s information, go to: www.iaqg.org/iaqgdb/supplier-admin.htm. Choose a user name and password and you’re done. Select a country, choose a standard and everyone who is certified is listed for your review.
Sampling is not allowed for AS9100 or AS9110, therefore each site must be audited in full prior to granting initial certification and each site must be audited in full at least once in the three year certification cycle at surveillance or re-assessment audits. Electronic Supply Chain Solutions maintains a website www.escs9120.com whereby clicking on their quality tab will not only provide you valuable industry information but also a hot link to OASIS Make sure you bookmark this valuable tool. As we all know poor quality is no day at the beach. ESCS is a AS9120 certified company and shall competed it's 5 th Aerospace audit in June 2008 with a 100% score!!!!! Companies investigating the process of being aerospace AS9120 should contact companies such as ESCS as they were the 3rd company in the USA to acheve this certifcation and are mature in their Quality Management System. ESCS knows Mil Spec

ESCS Warns - - - - Beware of Phishing

It's not like trying to combat counterfeits but it is about taking steps to secure your intellectual property. By definition - Vishing (voice or VoIP phishing) is an electronic fraud tactic in which individuals are tricked into revealing critical financial or personal information to unauthorized entities. Vishing works like phishing but does not always occur over the Internet and is carried out using voice technology. A vishing attack can be conducted by voice email, VoIP (voice over IP), or landline or cellular telephone.
The potential victim receives a message, often generated by speech synthesis, indicating that suspicious activity has taken place in a credit card account, bank account, mortgage account or other financial service in their name. The victim is told to call a specific telephone number and provide information to "verify identity" or to "ensure that fraud does not occur." If the attack is carried out by telephone, caller ID spoofing can cause the victim's set to indicate a legitimate source, such as a bank or a government agency.
Vishing is difficult for authorities to trace, particularly when conducted using VoIP. Furthermore, like many legitimate customer services, vishing scams are often outsourced to other countries, which may render sovereign law enforcement powerless.
Consumers can protect themselves by suspecting any unsolicited message that suggests they are targets of illegal activity, no matter what the medium or apparent source. Rather than calling a number given in any unsolicited message, a consumer should directly call the institution named, using a number that is known to be valid, to verify all recent activity and to ensure that the account information has not been tampered with. As my mom always says " company are like fish! They start to stink after the second day" Be careful of the company you keep and always protect your information! Visit one of the ESCS WEB SITES http://www.combatcounterfeits.com/ to learn more!

Electronic Supply Chain Solutions’ commitment to quality transcends everything we do:

Electronic Supply Chain Solutions is both an AS9120 and ISO 9001:2000 certified distributor of electronic components. ESCS is a member of the "Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy” which is part of the US Chamber of Commerce and is kept informed as to the extent and issues concerning counterfeiting and piracy. As part of our consultative services ESCS provides valuable information needed to safeguard companies from the 250 billion dollars already being lost to Counterfeiting & piracy in the U.S. visit http://www.combatcounterfets.com/ to learn more.
Vendor Qualification
Electronic Supply Chain Solutions' suppliers are subject to stringent vendor standards of quality and accountability to ensure that only the highest quality product is sourced for our customers. Our Aerospace 9120 Vendor Qualification and Corrective Action Program is designed to screen out problem vendors before they become a problem for our customers and to ensure that issues are traced back to their root cause for corrective action. This vendor program has proven successful in allowing us to maintain high quality product standards while continually reducing our supplier network.
Product Inspection
Our Quality Assurance (QA) Department references manufacturer specifications and employs visual/microscopic inspection to evaluate the component inventory that is received and processed to fulfill customer orders. Images are collected of products and any associated certification paperwork. Electronic Supply Chain Solutions has arrangements with testing houses to conduct functional product testing on any product that does not have a factory c of c. The ESCS inventory may be seen on our website http://www.icphotosynth.com/ ESCS states” The parts you see on our site are the exact parts that will be on your dock tomorrow morning. ESCS does not post availabilities.
Order Processing
Products which meet our customer specifications may be bar coded (in accordance with EIA/JEP 130, ANSI/EIA 556-B, and EIA 624 standards), packaged, invoiced, and shipped in accordance with customer-specified instructions.
Quality Certification
Electronic Supply Chain Solutions is both an AS9120 and ISO 9001:2000 certified distributor of electronic components.
Facilities
Electronic Supply Chain Solutions' owns a building that has exterior and interior security systems (both electronic and physical) to safeguard your scheduled shipments. Electronic Supply Chain Solutions’ Operations Department has achieved electrostatic discharge (ESD) compliance throughout our facility and all employees are required to complete ESD training and receive a certificate annually.
Customer Satisfaction
We conduct customer satisfaction surveys annually to measure our objectives and exceed our customers' objectives. Our customers are also given an opportunity to take an ESCS Satisfaction Survey on our website
Employees
Our commitment to our customers begins by attracting, hiring, training, and providing professional growth opportunities for our service professionals that are empowered with building and supporting Electronic Supply Chain Solutions' customer’s relationships.

ESCS supports our future engineers again

Stay tune for an update on Team KRUNCH 79 and Honeywell as they franticly enter the 6 week build 2008 season. ESCS was present at Honeywell last week for the unvailing of this years FIRST Competition streams live from NASA. This years chalange is called FIRST OVERDRIVE

You may view the press release to learn more! visit the ESCS website to view our involement and sponsorship of this exciting event.

Electronic Supply Chain Solutions decides not to hire Bill Gates after his retirement from Microsoft

ESCS President Matthew Heaphy says "the prospect of having another man with vision and creativity, such as Bill, to add to the many innovative web products ESCS has produced was very tempting, however we are not able to compensate him enough and still maintain our competative pricing. We will continue to provide you our resources in 2008 without a Bill. ( That's Free )

Electronic Supply Chain Solutions wishes Bill the best and would like to share this You Tube video for your enjoyment. Click here to see

ESCS ICphotosynth web product is setting a new standard for sourcing military and aerospace components

An ICphotosynth experience begins with a visit to www.icphotosynth.com. At first glance they may seem to be nothing more than a collection of digital photos. They are actually images captured by our AS9120 quality certified inspection team. Each photo is taken under a microscope and processed by our staff in order to highlight valuable distinctive features such as; part numbers, mfg logos, date codes, lot codes, or any special part markings (i.e. test dots). Photos that have small text or markings that wrap around the part are taken in a series that gives you a virtual 3D view of the entire part. Every date code is photographed separately to meet the requirements necessary to document split lot traceability as part of our AS9120 certification. The ICphotosynth offers benefits you will come to demand and rely on, and are only available at Electronic Supply Chain Solutions.
Imagine being able to request a photo of the product you purchased before it arrives! At ESCS you can! The ICphotosynth shows you the exact component in our inventory that will be on your dock tomorrow. ICphotosynth user friendly interface provides easy access for exploring a collection of photos in the ESCS inventory. Not all inventory at ESCS is displayed. Many parts been procured and tested to a customer drawing, and are earmarked for their future orders. All product at ESCS either comes with a factory C of C, or an MFG franchised distributor. Product that is procured and that does not have this tractability is sent out for testing. At ESCS all products received, even if it leaves the same day, is photographed. If we sourced the product specifically for you the photos will always be available upon your request. This service can aid in product liability, and is only available to OEM’s & CM’s as we don’t sell to brokers!
Navigate photos in the ICphotosynth & get Data Sheets as well.
ICphotosynth not only provides photos, but it also has an impressive feature which provides the ability to type in all or part of a component part number, and to navigate to the exact or similar part with a different value. This is great for teaching, or for knowing what a typical part looks like. Whether it's ICphotosynth collection of hundreds of photos, the ability to zoom in on the leads, or small part markings ESCS has made it simple to shop for quality components. You can search our Google image page by typing in the part number you need, and the ICphotosynth will then appear for you to share or save the image for later viewing. Need a Data Sheet to send along? Request millions of data sheets from the same page!
The ESCS ICphotosynth Technology
The ICphotosynth links both text and photographs into a individual web page incorporating the image and information. The content will evolve and change over time. Who can say where the future will take us? The ESCS ICphotosynth started out as an idea to create a web page for every part we owned, and now every part we have sold! We are excited about the possibilities, and would like to hear you ideas and/or suggestions.
This technology is provided by the same company that invented the CLICKnGO launch pad portal for buyers and engineers. ESCS was the third U.S. electronic distributor to become certified to the Aerospace AS9120 quality standard. And now after the fourth annual independent aerospace audit, ESCS continues to prove they are a quality advocate. ESCS is part of the CACP “Collation Against Counterfeiters and Piracy.” ESCS receives valuable information from the CACP and members of the U.S. Chamber of Congress. They supply information to its customers upon request so they can Combat Counterfeits. ESCS also maintains a link http://www.combatcounterfeits.com/ which provides free information to safeguard your supply chain. Explore ESCS website to learn more.

ESCS Asked the Question

Is the product a thing? Or is it a what?

It's a companies’ responsibility to talk about its history, its capabilities, experience, expertise, philosophy, people, customers, culture and its great employees. This is all relevant stuff. But, ultimately it always comes down to the product that they put out. Electronic Supply Chain Solutions prospective customers and employees, alike, still want to know — "Are these guys as good as they say they are?" To best answer that question we submit our record. Sure, it's the work we've done for "other quality minded companies, but it's also the best indicator of what you can expect from ESCS. In and of itself, the product reflects all of our history, experience, expertise, etc. — but, the emphasis on a quality product also gives you the opportunity to finally decide for yourself, “Are they as good as they say they are?" The Product is what we deliver.


So, you be the judge! From requirement to delivery to your dock we've collected some quality certifications that others just don’t have. Our aerospace AS9120 certification is subjective evidence of a total quality management system. If you like what you see, or would like to see more, Visit http://www.escs9120.com/qindex.htm ESCS updates this section with additional and relevant information we are proud to share with our customers so they can make sound business decisions. It’s what we do!