Particularly products in the investment goods industry are increasingly at risk due to unavailability that is only foreseeable to a limited degree. This often results in high costs and quality problems on receipt of equipment and machines, as well as serious problems sometimes when repairing sub-assemblies.
In many companies, obsolescence management has not yet reached its due importance within risk management or supply chain management.  However, the savings potential from unplanned costs arising from obsolescence is considerable.

Lacon Electronic GmbH is a member of the COG Deutschland (Component Obsolescence Group, www.cog-d.de), which deals with the subject of obsolescence across all disciplines and develops ways and means of overcoming it.

Obsolescence management at Lacon Electronic provides ways of finding solutions to this problem:

• Early information to customers
• Working out substitutes together
• Building up stock for the prized all-time requirement (total anticipated need)
  
  

No matter whether a solution is needed to guarantee that a product is adequately available until the next redesign or whether it's a question of finding a programme to fulfil long-term obligations – in every case, Lacon Engineering offers the right combination from individual obsolescence management.

[Translate to English:]

Gemeinsam mit Ihnen zu erarbeitende, detaillierte Schritte:

• Bevorratung
  • Erarbeitung der geeigneten Strategie
  • Life Time Buy
  • Bridge Time Buy
  • Einlagerungsparameter festlegen und Einlagerung vornehmen
• Bauteilebeschaffung
  • Anfragemanagement
  • Verfügbarkeiten unter Berücksichtigung mehrerer Quellen
• Ersatz / Retrofit
  • Identifikation von Ersatz- bzw. Alternativprozessoren
  • Wenn erforderlich: funktionskompatibles ReDesign der gesamten Baugruppe