A Supply Channel for Crucial Legacy Products
For over four decades, we have been trusted with the design, manufacture, and test specifications of our OEM customers’ discontinued products. In that time, we have offered sustainable and proactive solutions for OEMs looking for better ways to support their customers of discontinued products. Today, we are a trusted and authorized legacy equipment supply channel of discontinued embedded circuit boards and electronic systems for OEMs looking for more proactive and reliable ways to support the customers of their legacy products.
Providing Support for the Long Term
The applications that GDCA supports have life cycles that often span at least a decade or more beyond OEM EOL. While our OEM partners invest in developing new, innovative products to keep themselves and their customers competitive, GDCA offers our services for the long-term support of critical embedded systems with rigid designs. We provide a supply channel for these important, discontinued products, ensuring that the customer receives the products they need, and allowing the OEM to maintain excellent customer relationships while still maintaining a focus on what they do best–pushing the boundaries of technological innovation.
OEM Authorized Source of Supply for Legacy Systems
GDCA is an OEM-authorized legacy equipment manufacturer–which means that we work closely with each OEM we serve, and we take the protection of their intellectual property and technical documentation seriously. Our team takes proactive measures to avoid counterfeit components, old boards with possible component fallout, or untested modifications that interfere with legacy software.
OEMs and their customers alike rely on GDCA to sustain and support their legacy products, and to maintain product integrity and brand. Our engineers work closely with the OEM engineering team to learn the exact specifications of every board, as well as all certification requirements, so that we can be a supply channel to their customers for new, authentic boards and systems that precisely match the original product.
In addition, GDCA works closely with all stakeholders involved in the product, collaborating closely and transparently with all involved in its manufacturing. We bridge the gap for our OEM partners through legacy equipment manufacturing, providing them with more opportunities to maintain excellent relationships with strategic and legacy customers.
Tania’s Teachables
GDCA’s own legacy expert, Tania Scroggie, offers her insights into the world of legacy embedded computer boards. She provides advice on a variety of topics, such as the best practices for enacting a product's ‘end of life’ and real case studies on the cost of ignoring legacy customers. Check out her videos below or on YouTube!
