LEM, SCRM Consultant

“Apart from encouraging folks to consider external suppliers to more easily solve their electronics obsolescence issues, this video was an interesting experience in AI. Despite a little post-production, the pictures and music were all AI generated!”

In these times when globalization creates an unavoidable overlap between commercial and defense supply chains, partnerships (both global and domestic, commercial and government) are a critical success factor in doing successful business in the world today. It also feels a lot better than impersonal transactional relationships.

It’s exciting to see the US moving closer to a European level of service for public transportation. As someone who’s ridden their fair share of European trains over the years (and currently doing a 50 minute each way car-commute) I have found that I get a lot more LIVING done on a train than in my car. I almost wish I was on the San Francisco to San Jose corridor;) #caltrain

My internal movie critic screams, “If you only attend one obsolescence management conference this year, make it this one!” In all seriousness: for anyone who is struggling with the discontinuation of a product by its supplier, this will be worthwhile. #iiom2024

It seems in our collective best interest to insist on ways to mitigate the environmental impacts of all manufacturing industries. While it’s unreasonable to expect the semiconductor manufacturing industry to solve the problem overnight, what if we establish some maximum contamination thresholds with timelines and incentives for industry to figure out how to mitigate and contain PFAS biproducts? Even if it increases the price of computer products and services, competition should drive costs down to as little as is necessary for us to successfully steward our kids’ natural environment. Regardless, it would seem to be tax-money well spent for us to comprehensively track and report the levels and locations. hashtag#EnvironmentalProtection hashtag#ManufacturingIndustry hashtag#Sustainability

Great commercial. There are real opportunities out there for young professionals to make a good living while rebuilding American manufacturing and strengthening national and economic security. Now, that’s a good gig!

Privileged to be involved in an industry panel that took place at the recent DoD SCRM Summit. Great example of the types of government and industry collaboration that are essential to secure resilient and efficient supply chains for our country. Huge thank you to the OSD team who invited NDIA to participate and to the panelists for their thoughtful perspective: Chris Stone, Paul Sim, Carl Critchfield, Navneet Ganjoo. Well done, gents!

Exciting times at GDCA. Fun to see our CEO, Ethan Plotkin, share a success story helping a Navy program avoid DMSMS-forced tech. refresh. A big thank you to Robin Brown and her team for hosting such an engaging and interactive DMSMS & Parts Management Working Group Meeting. And this was “just” a virtual session. 🚀 Can’t wait for the IRL event in October. https://lnkd.in/gYit8f87

Exciting new perspective to the obsolescence community, and the theme couldn’t be more relevant: commercial and defense system use many of the same parts…and there are no parts without materials. Can’t wait to hear fresh insights from Stacy Newstead! Anyone interested in manufacturing should seriously considering attending.

“Conservatively, 25 percent of overhead efforts are exhausted on less than 4 percent of sales revenue. Most of these sales are old designs. This is why OEMs cannot make money on old designs—even if they increase their prices. But how can GDCA make money on old designs, when OEMs can’t? The answer is simple: GDCA is set up to provide sustainment services, which is completely different from product development and innovation.”