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7/8/2008 2:00pm

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Editor's Note
Counterfeiting is in the news again and the reports raise a red flag for MRO buyers and suppliers.

The reports include instances of companies buying bearings with well-known names based on samples they’ve examined, says Stephen Durston, president of the Bearing Specialists Association. “Once they took shipment, they discovered it was not the true part. They searched the globe for bearings and when they found them, they learned they were customized from another manufacturer and falsely identified.”

Having processes to verify products are genuine and to sequester products that may be fake are ways to help combat counterfeiting internally. Another is to buy from an authorized distributor; it has documents that show it’s authorized by the manufacturer and has its support. “It’s really the closest you can get to assuring you will get the product manufactured by the manufacturer,” says Jeffrey Ramas, supply chain management VP at Applied Industrial Technologies.

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