Strategies to the Prediction, Mitigation and Management of Product Obsolescence - Bartels, Bjoern a Ermel, Ulrich (TQ Systems GmbH) a Sandborn, Peter (University of Maryland, MD) a Pecht, Michael G. (University of Maryland, College Park)

The semiconductor manufacturing industry is highly dynamic and releases new, better, and cheaper products day by day. But how do electronic and also non-electronic systems that need to be manufactured and supported for decades manage to continue operation using parts that were available for a few years at most? This book answers these questions.