Organisations operating in defence, aerospace, rail and industrial manufacturing all face the same challenge: maintaining the reliability and availability of electronic components over product lifecycles that can exceed 30-50 years, while many electronic components become obsolete within just 5-10 years.
Although lifetime buys are often used to secure future availability, the way those components are stored can significantly influence their long term reliability. But without the correct storage environment, those components can begin to deteriorate long before they’re needed.
Download the full case study to discover how Environmentally Controlled Storage (ECS) helps protect component integrity, reduce lifecycle costs and improve long term operational resilience.
Ideal for engineering, procurement, obsolescence and through-life support professionals responsible for managing long-life electronic systems.
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The Challenge
Discover why long-life programmes are increasingly vulnerable to component degradation, corrosion and obsolescence.
The Solution
Learn how Environmentally Controlled Storage (ECS) protects sensitive electronic components through controlled temperature, humidity and specialist packaging.
The Results
See how organisations have extended component life beyond 15 years while reducing failures, scrap and lifecycle costs.
The Business Benefits
Understand how ECS strengthens supply chain resilience, reduces operational risk and supports long-term programme availability.
Why It Matters
Electronic components rarely remain available for the lifetime of the systems they support.
While organisations routinely invest in lifetime buys, many overlook the importance of protecting those components during storage.
Without appropriate environmental controls, moisture, oxidation and corrosion can gradually reduce reliability, increase maintenance costs and introduce unnecessary operational risk.
Environmentally Controlled Storage (ECS) helps preserve component integrity, ensuring critical inventory remains ready for use whenever it is required.
Why Choose CMCA(UK)?
Clients choose CMCA(UK) for many reasons, the most compelling of which are:
- We are a company that specialises in Obsolescence Management, Procurement and Environmentally Controlled Storage solutions. It is our business to provide cost-effective, knowledgeable advice to our clients: after all, our excellent reputation depends on it.
- When it comes to Obsolescence Management, we pride ourselves on being innovative and progressive in our quest to develop practical, bespoke solutions.
- The client has access to market-leading strategic and tactical Obsolescence Management advice. This allows their In-Service Support team to focus its attention on the plethora of other engineering challenges, safe in the knowledge that obsolescence is being managed by the experts.
