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Discontinued! – Now What?
Secured spare parts supply?
No longer procurable?
Who takes care of that?
Costly supply bottlenecks arise when a component, material, tool, process, assembly, software or standard necessary for the production or repair of a company‘s own product is no longer available from the manufacturer. This is known as ‘obsolescence‘. That is why it is becoming increasingly important to practice active management to reduce or completely avoid unplanned costs.
Your Benefits
Discontinuation and obsolescence cases occur in all sectors of high investment goods (capital goods, infrastructure, consumer durables, consumables and software products) Handled correctly, reactive, proactive and strategic obsolescence management is used to reduce or avoid production or service loss over the entire life cycle. This must also be considered when extending the planned useful life of equipment, machinery or means of production.
The AMSYS Service Offers
Are you an operator or manufacturer of durable capital goods? Then we can offer you individual advice and a portfolio of solutions:
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Workshops & Trainings
Working groups, workshops, seminars and team-building measures are extremely important in the area of tension between results and atmosphere.
Workshops are the first step towards a common understanding of management methods and outcomes. They are ideal to take a critical look at the day-to-day rules and practices.
RESULTS & BENEFITS• Employee training for the development or the extension of comprehensive Configuration, Obsolescence and/or Product Life Cycle Management
• Professional review and analysis of the existing process landscape
• Build-up of knowledge within your company for the implementation of improvements
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Process Audits & Training
A diagnosis has to be made at the beginning of each process improvement initiative to sort out the root causes and the resources spent for corrective actions.
We conduct Audits in cooperation with you, using studies of varying approaches to identify and quantify relevant issues within your organization.
RESULTS & BENEFITS
• Kick-off: Determination of your requirements (workshop)
• Review of the existing processes and documentation
• Interviews with those responsible for the processes and key users (individual interviews and workshop)
• Assessment of compliance with these processes in practice
• Analysis of existing IT solutions and environment
• Summary of the results and discussion
• Preparation of the report and a milestone plan
• Final presentation of the results
• Professional review of your management processes
• You learn whether your processes work "well enough"
• We also audit your suppliers on your behalf to ensure compliance with your processes and interests
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Concept Development & Definitions
In order to sustain your ability to manufacture and maintain equipment as well as to secure the commercial success throughout a project, anticipative measures are necessary.
A clear, feasible concept is essential in order to make your process improvement initiative successful. We develop and implement these concepts in close collaboration with you.
RESULTS & BENEFITS
• Weak-point analysis (if not already performed)
• Calculation and comparison of the costs and savings potential
• Definition of required company resources
• Definition and documentation of processes, procedures and templates
• Definition of the necessary adjustments in the tool environment
• Developing the measures to implement the concept
• Creating the milestone plan for the implementation
• Workshops, audits and studies to develop robust management processes
• Teamwork, training, coaching of the corresponding key users
• Working groups reflect on solutions that have been developed and implemented
• Coordination of expectations, performance and results
• Definition and description of realizable processes and action plans
• Enterprise-wide coaching
• Training to successful implementation of improvement concept
• Support of the planned measures in the transition phase
• Progress monitoring and planning control
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Process Implementations
We are happy to support you in your project to solve your specific problems or limited resources with the provision of specialist personnel.
RESULTS & BENEFITS
• Taking over "day-to-day" activities and minimizing risk by prioritizing tasks
• Provision of specialist personnel
• Allocation of defined work packages
• Expert consultant in a service contract
• Securing the operation procedures with comprehensive management through experts
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Operational Implementations & Achievements
From strategy to implementation. We create applicable milestone plans including responsibilities, management instructions and control cycles.
RESULTS & BENEFITS
• Concrete action programs of the target and action plan for the individual functional areas of your company, such as production, marketing, research and development.
• Advice and support in all matters of change in your company
• Development of change management programs that relate individually to your business environment
• Operational implementation of projects from strategy consulting in your company
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Contract Design & Invitations to Tender
Tenders are based on complex award procedures which require intensive and continuous monitoring. Anyone awarding public contracts today must ensure that these are tendered and awarded in accordance with the rules. We offer a tailor-made concept for the preparation and support of award procedures, which is carefully adapted and coordinated to each individual case.
RESULTS & BENEFITS
• Market research
• Design of the procedure
• Preparation of the tender documents and the announcement
• Execution of the bid opening and formal bid examination
• Drafting of contracts, negotiations in procurement procedure
• Preparation of tender documentation
• Support during bid acceptance and contract conclusion
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(Master) Data Cleansing
Master data duplicates and incomplete data are experienced again and again. These lead to errors and quality deficiencies in products and along the entire supply chain.
Additional effort and additional costs for search and elimination can be minimized with early master data cleansing.
Master data optimization not only significantly reduces the migration effort for newer software, but also increases the efficiency of existing software.
RESULTS & BENEFITS
• Elimination of error sources
• Realization of identified requirements and potential for improvement
• Use of powerful analysis tools
• Reduction of processing and lead times
• Maximize ROI of existing software systems
• Increased efficiency of existing processes, definition of target processes and adjustment of structure
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Development of Risk Analyses
The current IEC 62402:2019 standard requires a unit-level risk analysis for complete proactive obsolescence management. The probabilities of default and the effect of obsolescence on the overall system are related.
In this way, the necessary actions can be prioritized and monitoring cycles can be defined and planned.
RESULTS & BENEFITS
• Proactive threat identification
• Default probabilities and their effects
• Criticality assessment (incl. factor determination)
• Development of avoidance strategies to control life cycle costs
• Risk minimization through expert planning
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Development of Supply Strategies
How can a long-term supply of the production facilities be ensured? In times of economic boom (high demand), increasingly complex processes and global dependencies on suppliers, it is increasingly important to define consistent and efficient supply routes.
This secures competitive advantages and minimizes the risk of falling into cost traps.
RESULTS & BENEFITS
• Purchase part analyses and part classifications
• Demand analysis
• Replacement analysis
• Definition of suitable standard delivery methods
• Planning the material supply concept
• Disposition strategies
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Conception of Procedures and Process flows
Based on scientific methods and those adapted to practice, we jointly develop internal processes and procedures to avoid and solve acute problems. In doing so, we rely on many years of experience from a wide range of industries and projects to provide relevant impulses for a procedure that can be applied to you.
RESULTS & BENEFITS
• Evaluation of the current activities (actual status)
• Necessary delimitation and definition of the areas of action (reactive, proactive, strategic obsolescence management)
• Conception of a goal condition under consideration of the practicable effort
• Individual flow chart of the developed approach including responsibilities, inputs & outputs, tools, etc.
• Validation of the approach based on a relevant use case
• Concept presentation with all defined steps, e.g. as a basis for internal dissemination of information and for raising awareness of the scope of the topic
• Catalogue of recommendations for action, incl. estimated calculation of expenses and income
Software and Products
Life Cycle Management (LCM) Client
Our modular, web-based Life Cycle Management (LCM) Client is the optimal software for the automated, digitised and transparent design of your reactive, proactive or even strategic process.
The Life Cycle Management (LCM) Client comprises 3 modules which you can either operate as a combined solution or as a separate application – fully customised in accordance with your requirements.
Obsolescence Management (OM) Portal
The Obsolescence Management Portal allows all rail operators, as well as national and regional transport companies to obtain information on the topics of obsolescence management and spare parts supply together with all registered members, and to exchange vehicle-specific information.
Acute obsolescence cases and supply problems are published and discussed within the portal community. Members cooperate to develop a solution or provide relevant problem-solving approaches.
You will have unrestricted access to all information published on this portal on the subject of obsolescence in railways.
RAC SMART Tool (DMSMS)
SMART - Supportability Management Assessment Report Tool - from RAC is an intelligent and effective software that supports all aspects of long-term development, supply and maintenance phases:
- Consolidates multiple internal & external data sources
- Analysis and avoidance of unnecessary costs
- Detailed availability forecasts (incl. COTS components)
- Integrated case management optimizes solution-finding processes
Applied obsolescence management processes increase productivity and offer optimized solution finding processes. These reduce costs for obsolescence removal (reactive approach) and obsolescence avoidance (proactive approach). Plan the entire lifecycle of your (sub)systems in a strategic approach.
BOM Obsolescence Service
BOM stands for "Bill of Material". We are the only provider in Europe to offer "multi-database tracking" (MDT), i.e. we use information from several database providers to automatically analyze your parts lists. A total of several hundred million data records are available for your analysis purposes.
The parts list analysis and automatic monitoring is suitable for manufacturers (OEM, OCM), operators of systems as well as for assembly companies (EMS service providers) who want to offer their customers an additional service for supply security.
Our Seminars and Workshops
"IIOM Certification“ Obsolescence Manager
Obsolescence Management
2. Day: 09:00 to 04:00
By 24 February 2025
Obsolescence Manager "IIOM Certification“
