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Technology
Discontinued controls
Old control generations with spare parts only on the used market — and no one left who reads them when something fails.
Free self-check · 2 minutes
Rescue your aging machines — before the know-how walks out.
They still run — on discontinued controllers, kept alive by a few specialists, more maintenance-intensive every year. Score how urgent one machine's rescue is, and what to secure first.
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01 — The problem
The clock
is already running.
Obsolescence rarely arrives as one failure. It creeps in — until a control dies or a specialist retires, and the machine's know-how goes with them.
02
People
Knowledge in two heads
One or two people understand the machine. If they leave, so does its only real documentation.
03
Cost
Rising maintenance
More downtime, more firefighting, more asking around — a machine that costs a little more to keep alive each year.
02 — What you get
A clear read
on your rescue urgency.
Three pages, filled in two minutes — for a single legacy machine, not for the whole plant.
12 statements, 4 dimensionsObsolescence, know-how, maintenance and rescue readiness — each dimension scored on its own.
An urgency score out of 36Plus four subtotals that show where the risk sits — technology, people or cost.
Four urgency bandsFrom “low” to “rescue now”, each with what it means for that machine.
What to rescue firstThe fastest way to turn the score into a plan — secure behavior before swapping hardware.
What the rescue check does not do
It replaces neither an obsolescence analysis nor an inventory. It prioritises — it tells you which machine comes first, not what its retrofit looks like in detail.
03 — Who it's for
For plants with critical machines
on aging controls.
Anywhere behavior and know-how are at risk — and replacing the whole machine is not an option.
Behavior knowledge exists as an object, owned by the operator and handed over as an object.
In use on demanding lines in automotive and beverage filling; references and partners are named on request and with clearance. · Patented — granted internationally.
The next step
If the specialist for your oldest critical line resigned tomorrow — what would be left?
Get the Rescue CheckTwo minutes for your most critical legacy machine. Free, no obligation.