I wonder how much money is lost, world-wide, because of the great package debacle in the electronics industry.
What annoys me is that it is hardly rocket science to clearly and uniquely identify each package.
The other thing that is bad is the increasingly long and arcane component identities. In the early days it was just BC182, 2N3055 etc but, now, component identities , especially MOSFETs, are something like: SPNOGX56-0A1LPbF-OLML-KY (made up) and, to compound the situation, the marking on the device may only be a cryptic, 2L8 or similar.
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