The International Standard has determined that the Kilogram that we currently know today is actually heavier than it was a while back. This is due to surface contaminations from storage. What does this mean? It means that because of surface debris, each country that holds one of these “standards” is going to be different. So, what the US knows as a kilogram is different than what China knows to be a kilogram. This could potentially throw science off internationally, and even cause manufacturing “recipes” to be different from country to country. If an electronic component was manufactured in the Philippines it could have a different recipe than that of Korea. To learn more about this article, click the picture below.
Robb Hammond, founder and president of AERI (American Electronic Resource, Inc.). Founding member and former committee chair of the SAE AS6081 Standard created for the avoidance of counterfeit electronic components. Robb founded AERI in Costa Mesa, California, in 1994 as an independent distributor of hard-to-find, obsolete and allocated electronic components. AERI is AS9120B, ISO 9001:2015 and AS6081 certified, tests to AS6171 standards, and inspects every part in its in-house QC lab before it ships. Robb writes about electronic component shortages, sourcing strategy and counterfeit avoidance.
