It’s ESCS Quality Performance Award Time Once Again.

Have you earned the right to be rewarded?
As part the ESCS quality management system we are required to rate our suppliers performance for both on-time and quality.
Electronic Supply Chain Solutions maintains an almost perfect scorecard to our prime customers, so our need to demand the same of our suppliers is paramount to our success. Many of our suppliers obtained the award the past two years with one of them being Tresco (click on Tresco to follow the link). We are proud to recognize a job well done and as this year closes we urge those of you whom are in the hunt to keep up great work as your efforts continue to make ESCS one of the premier AS9120 certified distributors in our industry.

ESCS President gives keynote speech at the 2008 First Aerospace Congress

This years Future Aerospace Congress was well represented by senior members of prime contractors such as: ABB, Boeing, Bell Helicopter, NASA, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and United Space Alliance, just to name a few.

The three day event consisted of roundtable discussions on the Evolution of Advanced Materials, recycling, automation and the importance of full disclosure.

A second round table discussion was on Supply Chain Strategy including best practices, sourcing and overall effectiveness. As an owner of an electronic component distribution company, Electronic Supply Chain Solutions’ President Matthew Heaphy III provided other panel members a unique prospective as to the approach his company has taken to “Combat Counterfeits" with a free web site designed to educate the electronics industry. Mr. Heaphy discussed what it meant to be an AS9120 Quality Certified company and how teaming up with organizations such as GIDEP, AIA, IDEA, ERAI and his association with the CACP (Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy) were just some of the steps companies can take to protect their supply chain. ESCS also showcased a process called ICPHOTOSYNTH.com which captures every single lot code of every single date code of every part that enters ESCS during the inspection process.
This year's Future Aerospace Congress also featured several keynote speakers during the event. The first speaker this year was Electronic Supply Chain Solutions President Matthew Heaphy III on the topic of “Best Practices in Supply Chain Sourcing to Combat Counterfeits” During his speech Mr. Heaphy touched on many of the issues identified during the panel discussion but also conveyed the size and scope of the counterfeiting problem in the USA and the trickle down effect it has on all U.S. citizens. He also outlined some of the steps companies need to take to protect themselves. As an independent distributor that services the aerospace industry ESCS is asked to procure obsolete products that are required to maintain aircraft for many years. ESCS uses third party testing and evidence based protocols to mitigate our customers risk especially as it relates to the loss of human lives. A watch or DVD seems like a victimless crime; however, intellectual property is stealing the life blood of companies today. Information sharing is becoming more popular when conducting business with supply chain partners. But how can you protect your IP? This topic was on the minds of everyone in attendance and many companies requested private discussions with ESCS to explore their options.

Electronic Supply Chain Solutions staff has been collecting data as part of their commitment to a safe supply chain and has published an Industry Assessment entitled Awareness and Industry Efforts to Combat Counterfeits in Aerospace & Military Electronic Component Procurement

By clicking on the above link you can learn the views and prospectives of many aerospace industry leaders and use that information to Combat Counterfeits at your company.

ESCS has also tried to raise awareness in the industry by offering its product called “Infomins” Have you taken yours today? Infomins are like vitamins that give you the information you need to make sound business decisions. Visit www.infomins.com.

Mr. Heaphy wrapped up his speech on Best Practices in the Supply Chain by announcing thier latest brainchild of www.escsgps.com which navigates to the information you need. This GPS “Graphic Procurement System” utilizes many of ESCS graphics to hyperlink you to our proprietary suite of web products designed to help buyers and engineers become better informed.

AEROSPACE COMPANIES COMBAT COUNTERFEITS THROUGH MINIMUM DISTRIBUTOR QUALITY REQUIREMENTS

ESCS promotes industry best practices to combat counterfeits to ensure quality service from independent distributors of electronic components. We strongly believe every aerospace and military manufacturer should demand at least the following minimum standards of excellence from their independent distributors:


1. Aerospace AS9120 certification - If your company is aerospace certified, shouldn't you require your suppliers to maintain the same quality standards for inventory control, split lot traceability and vendor management? Companies with only an ISO 9001 certification should be given a deadline to achieve AS9120 certification or lose their status as an approved supplier. You can easily view your suppliers' AS9120 certification status on the OASIS database at http://www.iaqg.sae.org/servlets/index?PORTAL_CODE=IAQG. For all audits completed after October 1, 2008, the IAQG is now requiring certification bodies to upload the latest audit details as well as any corrective action reports with root cause analysis and correction plans, yet it will be up to the distributor to make this data viewable on the OASIS database. All distributors should be required to allow visibility to their scored results for your review. For all audits completed before October 1, 2008, distributors may request their most recent audit information be uploaded for your review.

2. Membership in GIDEP - The Government and Industry Data Exchange Program provides an important resource for current information on suspect and known counterfeit components, as well as disseminating general information critical to maximizing supply chain efficiency.

3. Membership in ERAI - Membership in The Electronic Reseller's Association requires distributors to be in good standing, and provides access to critical information on suppliers and the ERAI's counterfeit component notification database.

4. Validated component testing - Distributors should confirm what testing protocols are required under their quality management system for all components lacking clear pedigree back to the original manufacturer's Certificate of Compliance. Decide whether 3rd party testing should be required or if testing done in-house is acceptable to your standards. If in-house, confirm their inspection staff is qualified by a standard at least as strong as the Independent Distributors of Electronics Association's IDEA-STD-1010-A inspection standard, and that on-going compliance with this is documented in their AS9120 Quality Management System.

5. Vendor management system - Confirm your distributor maintains their own approved vendor list, and that their quality management system includes tracking of each supplier's performance for quality and delivery compliance. You may want to ask what the minimum requirements are to add a supplier, and the minimum quality standards they must achieve to remain on the distributor's approved vendor list.

6. Agreement to on-site audits - Every distributor should be required to allow on-site audits by their customers. Whether the manufacturer chooses to do so or not, any distributor who will not agree to at least prospective future audits with minimal notice should be suspect.

The above requirements should be considered minimum standards. At ESCS, we not only meet and exceed these standards, we offer a wide range of quality services to help increase manufacturers' supply chain efficiency and cost-effectiveness, and provide best in class buyer resources to help make sound business decisions through our buyer portal at http://www.escs9120.com/.

Please give us a call today to learn more about these free, on-line buyer productivity tools and the wide range of component services provided by ESCS. For more information on how your company can combat counterfeits, visit ESCS's site, http://www.combatcounterfeits.com/.

ESCS INTRODUCES INFOMINS

ESCS INTRODUCES INFOMINS


FOR MILITARY AND COMMERCIAL ELECTRONIC BUYERS AND ENGINEERS

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  4. IF YOUR DAY LASTS MORE THAN 8 HOURS SEEK HELP FROM ESCS
  
  5. EXTENDED USE OF INFOMINS CAN HAVE LONG LASTING POSITIVE EFFECTS
  
  6. TAKE INFOMINS ONLY AS YOU SEE FIT . NO PRESCRIPTION NECESSARY
  
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ESCS offers Datasheets 4 U

Electronic Supply Chain Solutions links it's customers with datasheet information from two sources.
http://www.escsclickngo.com/ and http://www.icphotosynth.com/
Both feature quick access to not only the picture of the part in our stock but also the pdf datasheet 4 U to pass along or investigate.
ESCS provides the information you need to make sound business decisions. Thousands of manufacturers websites can be accessed from ESCS's "TEMO "The Electronic Manufactures Outlet"
An example of a Mil spec diode that can be found on the ESCS CLINKnGO that navigates you to the commodity of Semi-Conductors then diodes and finally hyperlinks to the mfg site is shown below:

JANTX1N5811 - Diode from Microsemi
This "Ultrafast Recovery" rectifier diode series is military qualified to MIL-PRF-19500/477. The JANTX1N5811 is ideal for high-reliability applications where a failure cannot be tolerated. These industry-recognized 6.0 Amp rated rectifiers for working peak reverse voltages from 50 to 150 volts are hermetically sealed with voidless-glass construction using an internal "Category I" metallurgical bond. These devices are also available in surface mount MELF package configurations by adding a "US" suffix (see separate data sheet for 1N5807US thru 1N5811US). Microsemi also offers numerous other rectifier products to meet higher and lower current ratings with various recovery time speed requirements including standard, fast and ultrafast device types in both through-hole and surface mount packages.Maximum Electrical Rating Symbol Max UnitOutput Current IO 6 AReverse Voltage Vrwm 150 VMax Forward Surge Current IFSM 125 AElectrical Rating Symbol Min Typ Max UnitForward Voltage(IF=4 A, TA=25 ºC) VF1 0.875 V(IF=6 A, TA=25 ºC,300µs pulse) VF2 0.875 V(IF=6 A, TA=25 ºC) VF3 0.925 VReverse Leakage Current(Vrwm=150 V, TA=25 ºC) IR 5 µAReverse Breakdown Voltage(IBR=100 µA) VBR 160 VJunction Capacitance(TA=25 ºC) Cj 45 pFReverse Recovery Time trr 30 nsec

ESCS is AS9120:2002 AEROSPACE QUALITY CERTIFIED & ISO 9001-2000 CERTIFIED

ESCS GOT COTSS

ESCS COTSS Componnent Off The Shelf Services is just another added advantage to dealing with an AS9120 quality company such as Electronic Supply Chain Solutions. Read our COTSS Whitepaper to learn what ESCS provides in addition to being a franchise electronic component distributor. ESCS clients are predominantly mil spec prime aerospace companies and their sub contractors. Save money with ESCS COTSS

ESCS staff joins Criss Angel at the ushering out of an old landmark in Clearwater F.L. (The Spyglass Hotel)

The Spyglass like many buildings of their time has run their course of desirability.

Many of us may have great memories of old buildings and even great companies that delivered exceptional service. Where has it gone?
In the Electronic distribution business companies such as: Schweber, Hamillton, Hallmark, Kent Wiley, Milgray, and ACI to name a few have been gobbled up in the name of progress. So now we have only the big cookie cutter companies that offer only what they decide.
Some would say “gone are the days you got your windshield cleaned and were asked “May I Check Your Oil” when you pulled into your local service station. (We now call them gas stations)
Electronic Supply Chain Solutions aka ESCS is one company that still believes that a knowledgeable staff, a quality management system and a sense of urgency are still needed in the mil spec world of change.
ESCS provides web products designed to deliver precise information faster and even better than Google. Surfing the web with search engines provides a general selection of information.
ESCS believes in providing the exact required information for buyers to make sound business decisions. Visit ESCS9120.com We don’t do windows but we will do more than just check you oil!

Electronic Supply Chain Solutions Information Source: ESCS ICphotosynth web product is setting a new standard for sourcing military and aerospace components

Click here to learn about The ESCS Icphotosynth Technology

How not to Shave Aerospace Quality to the Bone on Electronic Components .... WhyThink AS9120 Certified?

If you ever decided to go out for a quality meal, you first pick a restaurant that has been described by others as having great food and service. Each of those two ingredients was well planned and executed which resulted in a positive experience. Sometimes you feel like a great meal sometimes you don’t. We often try to eat healthy but are willing to throw caution to the wind in the heat of convenience or hast. Well let’s say you always want a good meal but aren’t willing to pay for it. After all at the end of the day it’s just another meal. So what does this have to do with Aerospace electronics? Well nothing unless the poor standards practiced by the Chinese companies that were ISO 9001 certified are now killing our pets and contaminating the food chain that humans are consuming.

We have not begun to count human lives lost. We all learned about aerospace components and what kind of o-rings NASA had used on the Challenger. The loss of life and the ramifications it had to the future of space travel are more than just a bad dining experience. Most of us have been on a jet. There are procedures and routine preventative maintenance that is planned and executed to provide you a safe and positive experience. ESCS understands mil spec
A bad airline experience quickly and publicly takes human lives. It is not forgotten like a bad meal. The lesson learned is improved procedures as well as proactive measurement of all products and suppliers can safeguard that history does not repeat it self. The definition of isanity is "to repeat the same action over and over and expect a different result."

The Aerospace industry by its nature has to hold itself to a higher standard!
For years many factories have embraced the idea of quality with ISO 9001 however this quality management system falls short of the requirements needed to protect human life.
The Aerospace industry created an AS9100 standard for manufacturers, AS9120 for distributors, and AS9110 for repair and over haul facilities. This standard was built on the foundation of the International Standards Organization ISO9001 however over 100 added requirements are demanded by the Aerospace AS9100 standard to ensure a safe and positive experience.

The AS9120 standard mandates that you identify an approved supplier data base.
1.) You must identify the scope of what you buy.
2.) You must keep a matrix on the number of orders, how many on-time deliveries and how many quality issues for each supplier.
3.) All lot codes are documented. Any split lot codes must be documented for 7 years.
AS9100 requires not only that you check what you are doing but that you are proactively measuring the practices and procedures you follow will achieve an improved predicted goal.

In contrast ISO9001 certified companies are not required to measure their suppliers the same way, nor are they required to keep track of date codes or a split lot of material.
Wouldn’t you like to know that the aerospace companies and the companies that support them are mandated to identify quality companies who perform, keep track of how old those o-rings were and what other companies they were sent to! If the companies were not AS9100 certified, we may never know! Buying because it is cheap or purchasing from a supplier who buys surplus lots that are not required to have any quality control systems in place is no longer an option! Some resellers go so far as to state they are ISO9001 compliant. According to whom! Buying a box of documents and crossing out the word company and replacing it with your company name some could say makes you compliant but only to the one who sold you the make believe quality system.
You don’t buy a certification. It’s like a college diploma, you learn it, earn it, and practice it, prefect it and it becomes part of who you are. Being compliant is like a high school student saying I have read some of the books Wharton school of Business graduates have used in their education.
DO PLAN CHECK is the Aerospace "credo"
Which of the 3C’s should represent your current supplier’s quality management system?
Complacent, Compliant, or Certified
What subjective evidence have you demanded of your suppliers that demonstrate they will provide a Q.M.S that is protecting your supply chain to combat counterfeits?
Want to learn how not to Shave Aerospace Quality on Electronic components?
Visit www.combatcounterfeits.com/ or www.escs9120.com/ to learn more!

100% Score for AS9120 Quality Audit

Congratulations to Electronic Supply Chain Solutions for attaining a 100% score on its Aerospace AS9120 reassessment quality audit. This is ESCS’s 5th independent audit and a score of 100% is rarely achieved. ESCS President Matthew Heaphy said “Aerospace quality is built on the ISO9001 standard and is a maturing process that demands that your company outline, measure and achieve goals for both your suppliers and your internal quality management system. I am extremely proud of my staff as well as our approved suppliers that share our commitment to delivering a mil spec quality product on-time.” Visit http://www.escs9120.com/ to learn more.