Medical equipment is not cheap and the parts and manufacture are ISO regulated and heavily tested before they are used on people.
Me too!I think china is doing a bang up job of ruining our economy with or without industrial spying.
And you don't know what a plauge is!?
Sorry nope. Did you mean plague?
Hi,
I ran into the old cheapie caps when my power supply blew out and almost all the electro's in the circuit were leaking. Replaced them all, back up and running. Size is a little hard to get right though because some of them were a little smaller than 'real' caps so i had to move one over slightly, which is hard to do without affecting lead length too much.
I just can't wait for facotories to come back to the USA, so the quality of stuff will be much better.
What if medical equipment used fake parts.
Human lives are at risk-
I-Ben
Reputable medical equip. mfgr. companies thoroughly test and retest their products before going to market. Each item off the line is traceable back to practically every step of mfgr. Just one reason the cost for these items is so very high. Components are tested and certified prior to assembly. Furthermore, hospitals and clinics have their medical equip. certified periodically and more often on a regular basis. Everything is calibrated, test run, and then certified. Technicians are held accountable practically every step along the way. I wouldn't worry about a bad batch of capacitors sneaking into a production line.
When could industrial espionage strike again?! (yes, you could call me a worry-wart!)
-I want to know what your opinion about this is like
Agents and the process of collection
Economic or industrial espionage commonly occurs in one of two ways. Firstly, a dissatisfied employee appropriates information to advance their own interests or to damage the company or, secondly, a competitor or foreign government seeks information to advance its own technological or financial interest. 'Moles' or trusted insiders are generally considered the best sources for economic or industrial espionage. Historically known as a 'patsy,' insiders can be induced, willingly or under duress to provide information. A 'Patsy' may be initially asked to hand over inconsequential information and once compromised by committing a crime, bribed into handing over material which is more sensitive. Individuals may leave one company to take up employment with another and take sensitive information with them. Such apparent behavior has been the focus of numerous industrial espionage cases that have resulted in legal battles. Some countries hire individuals to do spying rather than make use of their own intelligence agencies. Academics, business delegates and students are often thought to be utilized by governments in gathering information. Some countries, such as Japan, have been reported to expect students be debriefed on returning home. A spy may follow a guided tour of a factory then get 'lost'. A spy could be an engineer, a maintenance man, a cleaner, a insurance salesman or an inspector. Basically anyone who has legitimate access to the premises.
A spy may break into the premises to steal data. They may search through waste paper and refuse, known as "dumpster diving". Information may be compromised via unsolicited requests for information, marketing surveys or use of technical support, research or software facilities. Outsourced industrial producers may ask for information outside of the agreed contract.
Computers have made the process of collecting information, due to the ease of access to large amounts of information, through physical contact or via the internet.
I think china is doing a bang up job of ruining our economy with or without industrial spying. Our people and government do not seem to have any will to stop it. Perhaps we have the greater share of the blame.
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A lot of it is not even Industrial Spying! Our companies give them the technology to make the parts for them. They in turn give or sell that technology to smaller companies in country to make the same things.
Having worked for GM/Delphi, we made machines that were then sent to China, India and Korea to make parts. All the while the parts we made were still being made on machines/equipment from the '60's, '70's and '80's. The stuff we sent to them was brand new re-engineered and debugged, ready to run!
I was a skilled tradesman that helped make that equipment, so I was part of the problem too. But the company lied to us, telling us that new parts and products would take the place of the stuff that was being sent off-shore. Guess what happened next? The company went bankrupt! Not all of it, just the North American part, the holdings off-shore weren't included in the bankruptcy.
From guy's that went off-shore we were told that the agreement with the off-shore countries was that parts are to be made for the U.S. companies for 8-10 hours a day. Do the parts stop being made after those hours? Guess again, they run 24 hours. Guess where the excess parts are sold, all over the world as replacement parts!
Not industrial spying but something way worse!
Chinese companies love to steal product designs from other companies.
I have seen plenty of ICs with no name on them.
They were made by someone who stole the ICs circuit design, and they didn't want to get caught.
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