The 2009/2010 series of COG Workshops are listed below.  Please telephone +44 (0) 1727 876 029 before sending in a registration form to ensure that the course is not fully reserved. Downloadable Workshop Programme.

You can order by fax, post or with your credit card by completing the registration form.     Register Now  

Workshop Programme

 

27 January 2010
Wyboston Lakes Bedfordshire, UK

Managing the Performance of an Obsolescence Strategy

Implementing a proactive Obsolescence Management strategy can involve considerable manpower and financial resources. How can you be sure that you are receiving the benefits of implementing such a strategy and that the resources expended are justified? Also, in commercial arrangements, a customer needs to have confidence that a contractor is managing the risk to availability, and the impact on cost, from obsolescence. Therefore metrics are needed that will:

• Provide measurement of how a contractor is managing the risk.
• Allow contractor’s to be compared (bidding stages).
• Provide incentives for a contractor.
• Provide a judgement that the risk is in the right place.

The Ministry of Defence have developed metrics for this purpose. Although the metrics to be talked about are produced for MOD Programmes, they will be relevant for other equipments.

This workshop will examine the metrics and discuss how they are used and will give you practical assistance in putting in place processes to measure your own, or your sub contactor’s, Obsolescence Management strategy.

Topics to be covered will include:

Calculating Cost Avoidance for a proactive Obsolescence Management strategy using Obsolescence Resolution Cost Metrics.

Measuring the ongoing proactive OM capability of your own organisation, or measure the performance of your contractor, to ensure that the OM capability is progressively improving, or maintaining a good standard, throughout the term of a project or contract.

 

10 March 2010
Electronics Yorkshire, Leeds, UK

Developing an Obsolescence Strategy

Component obsolescence continues to be an ever-growing problem throughout the manufacturing industries. A strategic approach is required to manage the issues and challenges of an increasingly volatile component supply chain.

This workshop is intended to provide suggestions and ideas so that delegates may formulate obsolescence and product life management strategies appropriate to their own products, organisation and industry

Topics to be covered include:

• Terminology used
• Notification of Obsolescence
• Procurement Strategies
• Obsolescence in Design
• Obsolescence Monitoring Tools

This workshop is interactive, with delegates being prepared to discuss and share their own experiences and approaches to Obsolescence Management