Understanding Planned Obsolescence

Understanding Planned Obsolescence
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Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9780749478063
ISBN-13 : 0749478063
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Understanding Planned Obsolescence by : Kamila Pope

Planned obsolescence is a strategy used to make products obsolete, leading to their premature replacement. The result is the over-exploitation of natural resources, increased waste and detrimental social impacts. It is a known practice in consumer electronics and affects other industries as they put profit before consequence. A ground-breaking new book, Understanding Planned Obsolescence looks at the causes, cost and impact of planned obsolescence. It considers the legal and economic frameworks to overcome the practice and how to mitigate its effects. It also unearths new patterns of production and consumption highlighting more sustainable development models. Including a wide range of case studies from Europe, USA and South America, Understanding Planned Obsolescence is a vital step forward for the future of business and academia alike. Online resources now available include chapter-by-chapter lecturer slides.

Planned Obsolescence

Planned Obsolescence
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9780814728963
ISBN-13 : 0814728960
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Planned Obsolescence by : Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Academic institutions are facing a crisis in scholarly publishing at multiple levels: presses are stressed as never before, library budgets are squeezed, faculty are having difficulty publishing their work, and promotion and tenure committees are facing a range of new ways of working without a clear sense of how to understand and evaluate them. Planned Obsolescence is both a provocation to think more broadly about the academy's future and an argument for re-conceiving that future in more communally-oriented ways. Facing these issues head-on, Kathleen Fitzpatrick focuses on the technological changeso especially greater utilization of internet publication technologies, including digital archives, social networking tools, and multimediaonecessary to allow academic publishing to thrive into the future. But she goes further, insisting that the key issues that must be addressed are social and institutional in origin.Confronting a change-averse academy, she insists that before we can successfully change the systems through which we disseminate research, scholars must re-evaluate their ways of workingohow they research, write, and reviewowhile administrators must reconsider the purposes of publishing and the role it plays within the university. Springing from original research as well as Fitzpatrick's own hands-on experiments in new modes of scholarly communication through MediaCommons, the digital scholarly network she co-founded, Planned Obsolescence explores all of these aspects of scholarly work, as well as issues surrounding the preservation of digital scholarship and the place of publishing within the structure of the contemporary university. Written in an approachable style designed to bring administrators and scholars into a conversation, Planned Obsolescence explores both symptom and cure to ensure that scholarly communication will remain vibrant and relevant in the digital future.

Made to Break

Made to Break
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9780674043756
ISBN-13 : 0674043758
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Made to Break by : Giles Slade

Made to Break is a history of twentieth-century technology as seen through the prism of obsolescence. Giles Slade explains how disposability was a necessary condition for America's rejection of tradition and our acceptance of change and impermanence. This book gives us a detailed and harrowing picture of how, by choosing to support ever-shorter product lives, we may well be shortening the future of our way of life as well.

Strategies to the Prediction, Mitigation and Management of Product Obsolescence

Strategies to the Prediction, Mitigation and Management of Product Obsolescence
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9781118275467
ISBN-13 : 1118275462
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Strategies to the Prediction, Mitigation and Management of Product Obsolescence by : Bjoern Bartels

Supply chains for electronic products are primarily driven by consumer electronics. Every year new mobile phones, computers and gaming consoles are introduced, driving the continued applicability of Moore's law. The semiconductor manufacturing industry is highly dynamic and releases new, better and cheaper products day by day. But what happens to long-field life products like airplanes or ships, which need the same components for decades? How do electronic and also non-electronic systems that need to be manufactured and supported of decades manage to continue operation using parts that were available for a few years at most? This book attempts to answer these questions. This is the only book on the market that covers obsolescence forecasting methodologies, including forecasting tactics for hardware and software that enable cost-effective proactive product life-cycle management. This book describes how to implement a comprehensive obsolescence management system within diverse companies. Strategies to the Prediction, Mitigation and Management of Product Obsolescence is a must-have work for all professionals in product/project management, sustainment engineering and purchasing.

Obsolescence

Obsolescence
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 203
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ISBN-10 : 9780226313450
ISBN-13 : 022631345X
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Obsolescence by : Daniel M. Abramson

Things fall apart. But in his innovative, wide-ranging, and well-illustrated book, Daniel Abramson investigates the American definition of what falling apart entails. We build new buildings partly in response to demand, but even more because we believe that existing buildings are slowly becoming obsolete and need to be replaced. Abramson shows that our idea of obsolescence is a product of our tax code, which was shaped by lobbying from building interests who benefit from the idea that buildings depreciate and need to be replaced. The belief in depreciation is not held worldwide which helps explain why preservation movements struggle more in America than elsewhere. Abramson s tour of our idea of obsolescence culminates in an assessment of recent tropes of sustainability, which struggle to cultivate the idea that the greenest building is the one that already exists."

The Waste Makers

The Waste Makers
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Publisher : Ig Publishing
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1935439375
ISBN-13 : 9781935439370
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis The Waste Makers by : Vance Packard

A pioneering work from the 1960s about how the rapid growth of disposable consumer goods degraded the environmental, financial and spiritual character of western society. It exposed the increasing commercialisation of American life, when people bought things they didn't need or want. It also highlighted the concept of planned obsolescence, the 'death date' built into products. This prescient study predicted the rise of consumer culture and features an introduction by bestselling author Bill McKibben.

Longer Lasting Products

Longer Lasting Products
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Publisher : CRC Press
Total Pages : 471
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ISBN-10 : 9781317103530
ISBN-13 : 131710353X
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Longer Lasting Products by : Tim Cooper

The present economic system requires us to consume and throw away more and more goods. Yet often it's our desire, and the best interests of the environment, for these goods to last. The contributors to this book, who comprise many of the most significant international thinkers in the field, explore how longer lasting products could offer enhanced value while reducing environmental impacts. If we created fewer but better quality products, looked after them carefully and invested more in repair, renovation and upgrading, would this direct our economy onto a more sustainable course? The solution sounds simple, yet it requires a seismic shift in how we think, whether as producers or consumers, and our voracious appetite for novelty. The complex range of issues associated with product life-spans demands a multidisciplinary approach. The book covers historical context, design, engineering, marketing, law, government policy, consumer behaviour and systems of provision. It addresses the whole range of consumer durables - vehicles, kitchen appliances, audio-visual equipment and other domestic products, furniture and floor coverings, hardware, garden tools, clothing, household textiles, recreational goods and DIY goods - as well as the re-use of packaging. Longer Lasting Products provides policy makers, those involved in product design, manufacturing and marketing, and all of us as consumers, with clear and compelling guidance as to how we can move away from a throwaway culture towards an economy sustained by more durable goods.

Cultures of Obsolescence

Cultures of Obsolescence
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9781137463647
ISBN-13 : 1137463643
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Cultures of Obsolescence by : B. Tischleder

Obsolescence is fundamental to the experience of modernity, not simply one dimension of an economic system. The contributors to this book investigate obsolescence as a historical phenomenon, an aesthetic practice, and an affective mode.

Advances on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Manufacturing II

Advances on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Manufacturing II
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 833
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ISBN-10 : 9783030123468
ISBN-13 : 3030123464
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Advances on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Manufacturing II by : Francisco Cavas-Martínez

This book contains the papers presented at the International Joint Conference on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing (JCM 2018), held on 20-22 June 2018 in Cartagena, Spain. It reports on cutting-edge topics in product design and manufacturing, such as industrial methods for integrated product and process design; innovative design; and computer-aided design. Further topics covered include virtual simulation and reverse engineering; additive manufacturing; product manufacturing; engineering methods in medicine and education; representation techniques; and nautical, aeronautics and aerospace design and modeling. The book is divided into six main sections, reflecting the focus and primary themes of the conference. The contributions presented here will not only provide researchers, engineers and experts in a range of industrial engineering subfields with extensive information to support their daily work; they are also intended to stimulate new research directions, advanced applications of the methods discussed, and future interdisciplinary collaborations.

Fourth Dimension in Building

Fourth Dimension in Building
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Publisher : National Academies Press
Total Pages : 117
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ISBN-10 : 9780309048422
ISBN-13 : 0309048427
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Fourth Dimension in Building by : National Research Council

Public facilities are valuable assets that can provide decades of high quality of service if they are effectively utilized. Despite effective planning, design, and management, sometimes users or owners change and have requirements different from those that the facility was initially intended to fulfill. In addition, the technologies sometimes change, making facilities obsolete before they have worn out or otherwise failed. This book explores the meaning of obsolescence as the term applies to buildings. It discusses the functional, economic, technological, social, legal, political, and cultural factors that can influence when obsolescence will occur and considers what design professional and building owners and users can do to delay and minimize the costs of obsolescence. The analyses apply to all buildings, but public facilities are given added attention because of their special management problems.