International Scientific Journals
of Scientific Technical Union of Mechanical Engineering "Industry 4.0"

Programmed obsolescence of industrial products is not a regularity caused by innovative development, but an alternative to innovative obsolescence. Programmed aging is a purposeful and controlled human activity in order to solve some industrial, economic and social problems of the development of society. Including meeting specific individual technical and organizational needs. From this point of view and from this point of view, programmed aging is increasingly playing the role of an alternative to the rapid innovative aging of products and processes. Moreover, at the current stage of technical development, innovative aging is already more important than physical aging. Therefore, a particularly important point in this direction is the correct determination of the degree of innovative aging, and hence the choice of the alternative – programmed aging. Proper assessment of the impact of programmed aging on the scale and timing of innovative aging is crucial for timely elimination of the negative consequences of their impact

The rapid development of communication and information technologies not only reduces risk but also strongly influences the ability of industrial companies to develop innovation activities faster and more purposefully. A dynamic and difficult to predict environment has been created in which companies are forced to flexibly seek alternative solutions to the negatively influencing factors in their operations. There are numerous tools and models for strategic development and evaluation of innovation. Most of them describe the problem statically, i.e. at some point in the company’s development until the components of time and innovative aging are taken into account. The purpose of this article is to propose a new approach to modeling innovative aging. In this way, the influencing factors will already be present in the methodology for innovative development. Therefore, a new, integrated, approach of methods and tools is needed to realize an effective innovation system.