GDCA Inc. Partners with Abaco Systems to Help Avoid Embedded End-Of-Life, Support Legacy Systems

February 4, 2019

Courtney E. Howard

Aerospace and defense , industrial automation and robotics, rail transportation, and other organizations which often struggle to support long-life platforms and systems stand to benefit from a new approach to obsolete and end-of-life ( EOL ) components. GDCA Inc. in Livermore, California, is working with Abaco Systems Inc. in Huntsville, Alabama, “to provide a sustainment path for customers with very long equipment life cycles,” GDCA CEO Ethan Plotkin explains.

“These customers absolutely need a reliable source of supply for very old embedded board designs,” Plotkin adds. “We’re still supporting products that were designed in the ’80s, and I consider making sure that original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have happy customers to be a core competency.”

GDCA, specializing in manufacturing obsolete embedded computer equipment, has joined forces with Abaco Systems, maker of rugged embedded computing solutions. Together, the companies have completed the transfer of 13 VME I/O product lines from Abaco to GDCA. Customers of the transferred product families now have a path to product availability for as long as needed, officials say, and can take advantage of GDCA’s life cycle assurance services to support particularly long life cycles.