Conrad Els

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Conrad Els is a Senior Hardware Engineer at ByteSnap Design, a UK-leading embedded electronics and software engineering consultancy based in Birmingham. With over 30 years' experience in electronics design and manufacturing, his career has spanned the petrochemical, industrial, security and commercial sectors, including establishing and running his own PCB population factory in South Africa. That hands-on manufacturing background informs his approach to obsolescence, patching and re-engineering decisions at ByteSnap Design today.

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Patch, last-time buy, or redesign? Making the right call when components go obsolete

A component End-of-Life (EOL) notice can look like a straightforward purchasing issue: find an alternative, place a last-time buy, and keep production moving.