Standards Development

Scope

This part of IEC 62402 provides requirements and guidance for obsolescence management applicable to any organization that is dependent on another organization to obtain value from the usefulness of the items that it provides. A cost-effective obsolescence management process and the activities used to implement the process are applicable throughout all phases of an item’s life cycle.

This document covers the following areas:

–        establishing a policy for obsolescence management;

–        establishing an infrastructure and an organization;

–        developing an obsolescence management plan (OMP);

–        develop strategies to minimize obsolescence;

–        determining an obsolescence management approach to risk;

–        selecting obsolescence resolution and implementation;

–        measuring and improving the performance of the outcomes of the obsolescence management activities.

Further guidance on obsolescence management is included as notes, in the informative annexes and references in the Bibliography.

Standards have been developed for:

–        Obsolescence management Part 2 forecasting obsolescence cost;

–        Obsolescence management Part 3 exchange of information regarding change and discontinuance of products.