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Commonality & Collaboration

Q-Star™ commonality is technology that enables various people to collaborate and produce a viable solution to an obsolescence problem.

Commonality answers the questions:

Which of my other products contain this electronic component?
Who else is using this same device?

At this site?
Across the enterprise?
And along my supply chain?

Q-Star™ collaboration is the process that can actually REDUCE obsolescence solution costs!

Collaboration enables people to work together to solve and then share obsolescence solutions.

By collaborating, they can

Reduce engineering hours,
Avoid inventory cost,
Lower operational costs by sharing the solution workload, and even
Leverage their combined purchasing power.

If there's a single word that sums up the direction of business innovation and supply chain midway through the first decade of the 21st century, it might well be COLLABORATION.