When working with many of our customers, they share with us their date code restrictions for electronic components. Sometimes it’s 18 months, sometimes 3 years, you name it. We located the following guidance document produced by Maxim Integrated electronic components. It states that with today’s manufacturing standards and materials, older date codes are no longer an issue. This is great news for many product manufacturers. They can loosen unnecessary purchasing restrictions, which will allow them to have more access to electronic parts, and at much lower prices. To see Maxim’s document please click here datecode_policy
Robb Hammond is the founder and CEO of AERI, an independent electronic component distributor operating since 1994. He is a founding member and former committee chair of SAE AS6081, the counterfeit-avoidance standard for independent distributors adopted by the U.S. Department of Defense, and a recognized authority on counterfeit detection.
