This article is about managing the value of assets. Asset recovery, also known as investment or resource recovery, is the process of maximizing the value of unused...
Top 10 Critical Subsystems Suppliers for 2014
VLSIresearch released its 2014 Top 10 Suppliers of Critical Subsystems to the Semiconductor and Related Manufacturing Industries today. Sales of critical subsystems increased 8% to a value...
The Five Biggest Risks to Effective Asset Management
According to the PAS-551 standard on asset management from the British Standards Institute, asset management is defined as: “systematic and coordinated activities and practices through which an...
Managing Obsolescence
One of the best approaches for proactively managing obsolescence is to develop and maintain a multiyear capital plan that explicitly designates a specific portion for instrument replacement...