IIOM unveils third obsolescence management event

Obsolescence management capability is becoming increasingly recognised as a key specialist discipline in industrial, automotive and consumer sectors as well as in its roots of aerospace and defence, railways, oil & gas, and nuclear. If you need to develop a servitisation business or to embrace the circular economy and changing consumer requirements, then you need to understand and manage obsolescence.

Said to be the world’s largest dedicated obsolescence management event, the IIOM Conference is the only truly international, multi-sector conference that covers the entire supply chain, from component vendors to system integrators and end users.

This will be tenth conference organised by IIOM, previously known as COG. The first took place in 1999 and there will not be a larger gathering of obsolescence management subject matter experts at a single event this year.

Whether managing parts or any other aspect of a product that is vulnerable to obsolescence, then the IIOM provides a collaborative environment for those that manage, can affect, are affected by or can provide assistance and solutions to resolve obsolescence.

This conference will bring together Obsolescence Management professionals, solution providers and those who want to learn how to understand and reduce their exposure to obsolescence risk.

Delegates and speakers will come from more than fifteen countries including the USA, India, New Zealand and Europe. The Conference title ‘Managing the Cost of Obsolescence’ and the sub theme ‘‘Developing Strategies for Obsolescence Management to Mitigate Risk & Through Life Cost’’ was chosen by IIOM members.

The conference takes place on the 12-13 June when 24 papers on all aspects of obsolescence management will be presented. Speakers come from globally recognised companies, such as Alstom, Ultra, Arrow Electronics, Safran Electrical and Power, the US DOD, IHS Markit, Honeywell Technology Solutions, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, BP, and Aker Solutions.

Preceding the Conference will be two workshops also led by industry experts: ‘Designing to Avoid Obsolescence at the Concept and Proposal Stage’, and ‘Obsolescence Management and Supply Chain resilience.’

For the two days of the conference, there will be an associated exhibition with more than a dozen obsolescence resolution and training companies showing delegates their capabilities. The principal Sponsor for the conference is Winslow Adaptics, to whom IIOM wish to give thanks.

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