Legacy Sustainment
Why you can’t engineer your way out of Legacy
February 3, 2026
The Myth of “One Last Redesign” Application OEMs often fall into a familiar trap: when legacy pressure builds, the next redesign is expected to solve it. One more refresh. One more board update. Another attempt to buy ten more years of support. On paper, it feels rational. Engineering is engaged. Specifications are modernized. A technical path…
Protect Your Core by Transferring the Tail: Offloading the Old to Focus on the New without Abandoning Either
October 10, 2025
Your road map for your business only works if you protect it–and Tania Scroggie makes this clear in the latest installment of her YouTube series! In her video, Tania explores the problems with trying to handle legacy embedded products internally, rather than giving them to an expert like GDCA–and why offloading these long-tailed products doesn’t…
Strategically Approaching a “Last Time Buy” Notice
February 19, 2025
The day you receive that “last time buy” (LTB) notice for a crucial embedded PCB or PCB component for your systems can be stressful–even if you know it’s coming. What if you still need that circuit board five to ten years after that LTB day? Suddenly, sourcing the required parts becomes a mad scramble, resulting…
The Recurring Nightmare: Obsolescence Strikes Again… and Again
January 13, 2025
Tania Scroggie is starting the new year with another installment of her short video series, Tania’s Teachables, on YouTube! Tania tackles the frustrating and recurring nightmare of embedded electronics obsolescence in her tenth video discussion. The Nightmare of Obsolescence Nearly every OEM has experienced it. Customers grow frustrated and leave because the OEM cannot…
Wrapping Up 2024 with Tania Scroggie
December 29, 2024
Tania Scroggie returns in her short YouTube series, Tania’s Teachables, exploring the incredible journey that we’ve been on together this year. In this latest installment, Tania reflects on the various topics she’s covered in legacy sustainment and support. She plans to use this as a foundation for even more exploration into the unique and fascinating…
Thanksgiving Tribute to OEMs: Honoring Those Who Support Legacy Systems – GDCA
November 20, 2024
This Thanksgiving, Tania Scroggie expresses her gratitude on behalf of GDCA for our OEM partners and customers who have partnered with us to support their legacy embedded systems for their own customers. For several decades, GDCA has been working hard to support and sustain the needs of legacy embedded systems customers, and we are always…