Design for Obsolescence Risk Management

Design for obsolescence risk management

Many systems that are required to be manufactured and supported for long time periods lack control over critical portions of their supply chains; these systems include: military, avionics, industrial controls, rail infrastructure. This results in the components and technologies that these products depend on becoming obsolete (and unavailable) long before the system’s demand for them is exhauste...

Designing for Technology Obsolescence Management

Many types of products that have to be manufactured and supported for long periods of time lack control over critical parts of their supply chain, e.g., avionics, telecom infrastructure, and industrial controls. As a result, the components and technologies that these products depend on become obsolete long before the product’s field life (and sometimes even manufacturing life) ends. Obsolescenc...

Obsolescence and Life Cycle Management for Avionics

Obsolescence Driven Design Refresh Planning for Sustainment- Dominated Systems

Many technologies have lifecycles that are shorter than the lifecycle of the product they are in. Lifecycle mismatches caused by the obsolescence of technology (and particularly the obsolescence of electronic parts) results in high sustainment costs for long field life systems, e.g., avionics and military systems. This paper presents a methodology for performing optimum design refresh planning ...

Forecasting and Proactive Management of Obsolescence for Sustainment- Dominated Systems

Many technologies have life cycles that are shorter than the life cycle of the product they are in. Life cycle mismatches caused by the obsolescence of technology (and particularly the obsolescence of electronic parts) results in high sustainment costs for long field life systems, e.g., avionics and military systems. This paper describes a new methodology for forecasting electronic part obsoles...