With respect @KateKurera, the only thing I don't like about your speech was the bit about "big corporations".
I don't like it, because all corporations, when successful, will become big.
Those that ride the #repairability wave have many $$ advantages.
I don't like it, because all corporations, when successful, will become big.
Those that ride the #repairability wave have many $$ advantages.
A good solid for #repairable devices is of financial management: Roughly 30-40% of a given products' revenues come in the form of lifecycle maintenance.
In the coming decade, that margin will increase to 50-60% due to futureproofing and modularity among other things.
In the coming decade, that margin will increase to 50-60% due to futureproofing and modularity among other things.
What's missed by financial managers though, is that this revenue is not free. It has two costs, one indirect:
First, the cost of staff to maintain said equipment - if your products fail "too infrequently", you're forced to use contractors (seasonal variability of need).
First, the cost of staff to maintain said equipment - if your products fail "too infrequently", you're forced to use contractors (seasonal variability of need).
Components are cheap. Schematics can be made available for free. Repair could be outsourced to partners or unaffiliated repair business. You lose revenues, yes, but you also avoid a bullet in the form of the above problem.
There's a second, more insidious problem as well.
There's a second, more insidious problem as well.
Every product is created within a certain zeitgeist, and into a given environment. 10 years from now we will be making different products than today - and existing products differently, with different assumptions.
For the last 10 years the gold of the new age has been data. Growth. Nothing else has mattered.
Well here we are. Turns out data is just numbers unless you have a use-case.
Well here we are. Turns out data is just numbers unless you have a use-case.
But anyway - products are created in a given context. That means they're done worse today, than they will be done tomorrow. This means that a company with as-a-service model will have, over time, quite a complex plethora of products "out there".
Gen 1 of a product might have software that has features that Gen 2 no longer recognizes. The longer time is spent before upgrade, the more jarring the change will be.
This is especially true in the #medtech industry. But that's its own chain for another time.
A good solid counterargument against #repairable devices* EDIT.
The rational, philosophical, environmentalist, ethical, and every other good argument for #repairable devices #righttorepair is well grounded.
But once we crack the business logic of it - it will make for truly big corporations. And hopefully "good" ones.
But once we crack the business logic of it - it will make for truly big corporations. And hopefully "good" ones.
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