Planned Obsolescence and the Product Lifecycle

Given the fact that the Romanian industrial companies or the Romanian academics are not so familiar with the concepts of planned obsolescence or contrived durability, the paper tries to elaborate on and disseminate these two concepts a little bit more. Using the exploratory study of the dedicated literature as a research method, the paper is providing a general framework for planned obsolescence and contrived durability, and establishes their places on the product lifecycle, covering also the critics and the shortages, as well as appraisals and potential benefits that planned obsolescence is having for industrial manufacturers.