Technology {#3} selection influences:
- Product architecture and pricing structure
- Product attributes, performance and functionality
- Product installation, calibration, test and maintenance
- Ease of design; e.g., compatibility with other components/software; design changes
- Cost, sourcing and availability of components and materials
- Energy usage
- Ease of all phases of testing
- Reliability and quality of components and associated processes
- Safety, legal and environmental conformance
- Manufacturability rework and scrap
- Post-production support and serviceability
- Availability of consumables, periodic inspection
- Availability of development, test and fabrication tools
- Conformance to various legal and industrial standards
- Packaging requirements
- Upgrades, bug-correction and spare parts
- End-of-Life prerequisites and processes
For example, if an old, rare or new and un-tested component is required, the product can suffer from unknown quality and reliability issues, availability of testing tools, knowledge, components, etc., thus dramatically increasing the product cost over its life time.
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