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The Cost of Delay (ROI Aligned)
The Cost of Delay As a Product Manager, you make hundreds of decisions a week. But what about the one you keep putting off? The one about the long tail […]
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Feb 26Legacy Sustainment Magic: When OEMs and LEMs Come Together (Sea Sparrow Case Study) – GDCA
GDCA is in the business of helping defense programs who can no longer get support for obsolete electronics circuit cards, like computer boards, graphics cards, power supply controllers and many […]
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Oct 01Legacy Engineering: Balancing Innovation with Tradition
Legacy electronic systems result from technology’s swift evolution, a rapid pace of growth and innovation that, while widely celebrated, leaves many embedded systems incompatible and unable to easily and affordably […]
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Feb 20Just because you have the TDP doesn’t mean you can build the board
Recently, one of the ways in which we’ve seen end-use customers try to combat electronics obsolescence is by getting the technical data (TDP) of the required circuit board from the […]
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Dec 26Tania’s Teachable Discussions
A new video series for OEMs on the EOL cycle Legacy Expert Tania Scroggie of GDCA, Inc. presents a new series of short videos about end-of-life products and the strategies […]
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Sep 01How to Source Discontinued Embedded Boards
Finding embedded circuit boards after the OEM has discontinued them can be challenging, especially if the board is several years old. However, there are several comprehensive steps that you can […]
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Aug 02You Get What You Pay For
The value of working with an ITAR compliant company ITAR or the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, is a vital set of regulations that control the export and import of […]
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Jun 12Pre-Stocking is not your only option
Using an Obsolescence Management Tool to Support a Wider Sustainment Solution Obsolescence is inevitable. All parts, systems, and boards will eventually become obsolete, and for vital systems requiring life cycles […]
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Apr 10The Human Factor: When losing older workers leads to obsolescence
Ask anyone who drives an older car.
As the system ages, it develops its own quirks. You have to jiggle the shifter in park to get the keys out of the ignition. You have to pump the gas twice before it starts up on a cold day. The AC has to be turned off when going up a steep hill on days over 96 degrees. You know that you can get away with just 2/3rds of the thread on the bolts, but only for 6 weeks.
In short, you know that system inside and out: all the bugs, the features, and quirks that impact operation and repair. Unless your mechanic is into vintage cars, though, he’s not going to relish working on an older vehicle. A younger mechanic may tell you the car is “old” and you’re better off just getting a new one, just when the old one was about to become a “classic.”
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Oct 21When ‘Just-in-Time’ Is Just Too Late: A New Approach to Managing Production – GDCA
Until the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, just-in-time (JIT) inventory management strategy was considered to be among the most reliable business models for manufacturing everything from cell phones to […]
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