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The Sustainment Slog

Product Pruning and Finding Your Point of No Return

When does sustainment become a slog? When does the bottom one percent of your sales become too much to bear? In this week’s Fish Fry, we are diving into the world of OEM product management with Ethan Plotkin and Siku Thompson from GDCA. Ethan, Siku and I discuss supply chain trust, integrated sustainment, and the hidden costs associated with ad hoc orders. Also this week, we take a closer look at some revolutionary new research from Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab that is creating drinking water from atmospheric humidity with a little help from metal-organic frameworks.

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Links for February 7, 2020

More information about GDCA

More information about 2020 Embedded Tech Trends

Whitepaper: Reversible Atmospheric Water Harvesting Using Metal-Organic Frameworks

Video: Extracting Water from Thin Air

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