The Department of Defense (DoD) spends significant amounts of money addressing software obsolescence and compatibility across the enterprise. Obsolescence is driven by lack of vendor support as ...

One unfortunate fact of modern life is that functional new software becomes non-functional old software with depressing regularity. For most people, this means predictable episodes of frustration, but ...

The notion of using interchangeable parts in manufacturing has existed for centuries, spanning back to the late 1700s when inventors began creating muskets composed of interchangeable parts. Others ...

Find out what steps your team should consider when implementing plant software upgrades in order to avoid increased downtime and lost productivity. Did you know that software companies introduce new ...

(This story appeared in the July-September edition of Army AL&T;Magazine.) Critical Thinking, a new feature in Army AL&T;Magazine, offers perspectives from those outside DOD and the defense industry ...

As automation and software suppliers come out with all the latest and greatest in manufacturing brilliance, the fact is that most production environments are just struggling to keep their operations ...

A new study cracks open a question almost as old as the smartphone revolution: Do iPhones slow down after software updates? Conducted by John Poole, founder of performance analysis software Primate ...

Two years ago, I was in some business meetings in Shanghai and upon my return to the hotel my iPhone went “black screen” on me. No random button pushing or magical spell revived it. It had become a ...

This is a monthly subscription service that will provide continuous component lifecycle monitoring and strategic BOM health management for manufacturing companies and will provide proactive monitoring ...

Italy’s antitrust organization has launched two separate investigations against Apple and Samsung over accusations of planned obsolescence. The Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, or ...