Legacy Planning: Timing is Key

Today’s OEMs capitalize on the benefits of formal Product Life Cycle planning to uphold their service reputation,  while balancing costs and benefits. Addressing legacy support too late in the life-cycle can be costly. Incorporating Ontic into your plans for the future assures the highest levels of support while preventing your legacy products from absorbing disproportionately high support costs, allowing you to avoid prematurely diminished returns.

Licensing products to Ontic earlier in their life-cycle maximizes results with minimal disruption because:
• The supply chain remains intact
• Internal knowledge and documentation still exist
• Continuity of customer interaction is maintained

Planned transition of product lines to Ontic at strategic points in the life-cycle will ensure that support functions are not impacted and will afford the OEM real value through profits without asset utilization, in addition to other key benefits of licensing:

• Liberated assets
• Rescued resources
• Elimination of distractions from focus areas

Proactively planning with Ontic provides assurance to the OEM’s customer that long term support is available for as long as the product is needed.

Licensing can help an OEM throughout the
product lifecycle .