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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,
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 Brooks Stevens who suggested that new and improved products are in constant demand by consumers and that corporations can best respond
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Podcast: Selecting ERP software for manufacturing
sponsored by Exact Software
PODCAST:
In this podcast, Ray Wang, Vice President at Forrester Research, offers insight on how to build a business case for enterprise resource planning (ERP) during the economic downturn - and save money in the process.
Posted: 30 Jan 2012 | Premiered: 30 Jan 2012
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Vodcast – Aberdeen Report: To ERP or Not to ERP: In Manufacturing, It Isn't Even a Question
sponsored by Sage Software
VIDEOCAST:
This videocast compares manufacturing organizations that have implemented an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to those that have not. Discover the differences and what non-ERP manufacturers have to gain from deploying an ERP platform.
Posted: 16 Jan 2012 | Premiered: 16 Jan 2012
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ERP Selection Checklist for Manufacturers
sponsored by Plex Systems
VIRTUAL SEMINAR:
In this ERP Selection Checklist, provided to you through our ERP Decision Center, two experts with broad experience in ERP implementations give their advice on matching business requirements with product features in five key categories: functional fit, integration, business intelligence and reporting formats, deployment model and customizability.
Posted: 25 Oct 2011 | Premiered: 25 Oct 2011
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MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY DEFINITION (continued): … 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 application s and operating system s (OSs) demand more memory , hard disk space, storage capacity and throughput . This demand leads to the development of improved memory technology, increasingly capacious hard drives and storage media and faster microprocessor s. These developments, in turn, are followed by still more sophisticated applications and OSs, driving the cycle to continue. All of this is fueled by the geek 's love … Manufacturing Industry definition sponsored by WhatIs.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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