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How GDCA Solved an Impossible Legacy Hardware Challenge | Ep.1: The Customer Challenge & GDCA’s Role
April 11, 2025
Dawn Dela Rosa, Director of Manufacturing at GDCA, takes the stage on our YouTube channel with a new three-part short video series exploring a recent sustainment challenge that we recently undertook for a military program struggling to find a source for their critical but obsolete hardware. The first episode introduces the major problem of this…
Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages
July 31, 2024
Diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortages or DMSMS continues to be an especially critical topic for defense manufacturing and supply chain risk management (SCRM). While more and more efforts have been made recently to encourage and support proactive strategies to combat DMSMS and obsolescence, there are still a lot of challenges facing end-users and application…
Tania’s Teachable: Cautionary Tales from the Embedded Industry: The Cost of Ignoring Loyal Customers
May 1, 2024
New Episode Alert: Lessons from a Market Leader’s Misstep In our latest episode of “Tania’s Teachable,” we explore a compelling case study recently featured in EE Times Europe. The episode delves into the story of an embedded computer market leader who faced significant challenges after neglecting its loyal customer base during critical industry shifts. This…
The New Kids on the Supply Chain Block
January 12, 2024
Electronics obsolescence causes far bigger shockwaves across supply chains than most people realize. The domino effect typically starts with the discontinuation of a component on the circuit board, and then cascades all the way through the supply chain to the end-user’s equipment. The result is a relentless avalanche of cross-industry costs, supply chain inefficiencies, and…
The Value of a Sustainment Options Report (SOR)
June 12, 2023
The Value of a Sustainment Options Report (SOR) GDCA is the leading industry provider of legacy manufacturing and obsolescence management services. We build new sources of supply for discontinued or obsolescence ridden electronics and it all begins with a sustainment options report (SOR). What is a SOR? A SOR is GDCA’s way of summarizing all…
Pre-Stocking is not your only option
June 12, 2023
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 of a decade or more, obsolescence becomes a looming and expensive problem. Traditionally, pre-stocking has been used to solve the obsolescence issue and it is…
New Source of Supply vs. Second Source of Supply
March 23, 2023
When a new source of supply isn’t enough All machines, and the parts that make them up, have a lifespan. Even software compatibility and certifications need to be considered when you have a piece of equipment that you plan to use for a decade or more. With how quickly technology is advancing every year, obsolescence…
Do your legacy products spark joy?
July 19, 2021
“We have too much stuff,” my wife said six months into the pandemic. We’d done purges before, but they never lasted. Soon afterward, she’d say, “We STILL have too much stuff!” And she was right. This time, we decided to search the internet for advice and discovered Marie Kondo. “KonMari” is a Japanese organizational consultant…
Remanufacturing thwarts obsolescence in mission-critical systems – Millitary Embedded Systems
May 9, 2008
The resolution of obsolescence for mission-critical electronics systems is of utmost importance. Obsolescence issues affect almost every electronics system that is maintained long-term. Arlin describes specific issues and suggests solutions to sustain those systems, focusing on the option to remanufacture obsolete systems. Key considerations include startup and material costs, along with hardware design and program…