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Name the five kinds of obsolescence.
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Planned, functional, technological, style and social. What separates them is what actually ended the product.
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Planned or functional obsolescence?
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Functional means it genuinely broke and cannot economically be repaired. Planned means the useful life was deliberately limited by a design decision.
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What is the triple bottom line?
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Measuring a product against people, profit and planet rather than profit alone. Obsolescence is where the three conflict most sharply.
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Give the commercial argument for designing against obsolescence.
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A long-lived product builds the reputation the next one is sold on, avoids total warranty replacements, and avoids legal exposure as repairability rules spread.
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