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Manufacturing Industry
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ALSO CALLED: High Tech Manufacturing Industry, Industrial Equipment Industry, Engineering Industry, Manufacturing Services, Furniture Industry, Industrial Automation Industry, Manufacturing Industries, Machinery Industry, and Industrial Manufacturing Industry
DEFINITION: Planned obsolescence, also called built-in obsolescence, is the conception, design and production of a product, such as hardware or software, with the intent that it should be useful, functional or popular for a limited length of time. The term was coined in the 1950s by
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MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY DEFINITION (continued):
Brooks Stevens who suggested that new and improved products are in constant demand by consumers and that corporations can best respond by manufacturing items that don't last very long. In the computer industry, planned obsolescence occurs in a synergistic manner between the hardware and software sectors. New applications and operating systems (OSs) demand more memory, hard disk space, storage capacity and throughput.
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