Webinar: 15 years on the market, 5 years of components. How to design for the full lifecycle, not just the product
Every industrial hardware product carries the same gap: components live 3 - 7 years in production, and the product runs 15 - 25. Companies that manage this well didn't get lucky. They made different decisions at the concept stage, before the first component was even chosen.
What happens when lifecycle isn't part of the design
The problems don't show up at launch but later, and by then they're expensive.
- Emergency sourcing costs 3–10x for the standard price. Once a component hits end-of-life with no qualified replacement lined up, there’s no negotiating position left.
- Variant projects quietly stop being six-week jobs. A “minor” compliance update touches three subsystems instead of one. Documentation that’s 18 months out of date means the team rebuilds decisions instead of using them.
- CRA now runs for the product’s entire commercial life like continuous vulnerability monitoring, a maintained SBOM, and incident reporting within 24 hours of an actively exploited issue, for as long as 25 years after launch.
- Without a named engineering owner, changes pile up informally. Nobody formally approves BOM revisions. Over time, the product in the field stops matching the records, until an audit or a variant of project forces a reckoning, almost from scratch.
What we'll cover
- The lifecycle gap in numbers. Why component selection at concept is already a lifecycle decision, and why it’s the cheapest point to get it right?
- What breaks without a plan? How missing documentation and an undefined engineering owner show up as overrunning variant projects, compliance gaps, and BOM changes nobody approved?
- One operating model, not four separate problems. How NPDI, SEV, CLM, and Design Authority work together across the full lifecycle?
Who should attend:
- Engineering
- R&D
- supply chain leads designing and manufacturing electronics-based products