AS the electronics revolution accelerates, civilian businesses are also running into obsolescence issues.
This paper focuses on how on-going energy demand, shift in water depth and heavy crude oil type are creating huge obsolescence issues especially software in the offshore oil and gas industry.
The other potential obsolescence issue relates to the processor.
Second, there are issues with obsolescence, as many NPPs currently in operation still use analog instrument and control systems.
Forbes Ewan Spencee has written about this, and Apple already faces almost 60 Class Action lawsuits in the US and legal action from multiple governments around the world for silently introducing what many deem is 'planned obsolescence' and Italy has already issued fines.
When the patent was issued, DuMont announced the invention of an all-color, all-electronic television tube that could "be applied to any existing color or black-and-white television system without obsolescence of existing receivers".
In addition to issues of the components of sports equipment, the manufacture of such equipment also plays into issues of obsolescence and waste.
The FCC's long December will either restore confidence in the Commission's ability to tackle difficult issues like Net Neutrality or leave us in a similar position where many feel the FCC has disclaimed responsibility and rendered its own obsolescence with complicated Internet issues.
Having identified common issues, e.g. risk, obsolescence, manpower availability, etc. additional interviews were undertaken to triangulate the results with other safety critical companies operating and maintaining complex systems, i.e. a power company operating an advanced gas-cooled nuclear reactor, rail infrastructure and Europe's largest regional airline.
The case, Toobin says, "underlines the incredible age and obsolescence of the Constitution on this issue".
