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planned obsolescence

practice of planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life
Class type of: manufacturing process management, obsolescence, business process Q1967458

Facts

3 properties
Instance of
destruction
Subclass of
manufacturing process management, obsolescence, business process
Subject has role
profit maximization[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en built-in obsolescence en product obsolescence en planned product obsolescence en planned obsolescence en planned depreciation en delayed self-destruction ar التقادم المخطط cs plánované zastarávání da planlagt forældelse de verzögerte Selbstzerstörung de eingebaute Obsoleszenz de geplante Obsoleszenz de künstliche Obsoleszenz el Προγραμματισμένη Απαξίωση es obsolescencia programada es obsolencia planificada es obsolescencia planificada fa کهنگی عمدی fi suunniteltu vanheneminen fr obsolescence programmée
🔖 Identifiers · 19
Library of Congress Authorities ID
sh85107204
BBC Things ID
0b7287b4-d9a5-416b-95d7-21c13a5e8137
Described at URL
www.theguardian.com
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)
3HnGOj
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)
530533
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/planned-obsolescence
France 24 topic ID (French)
obsolescence-programmée
Freebase ID
/m/02hlv_
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/12qbhn696
Harper's tag
product-obsolescence
J9U entity ID
987007538594805171
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
planned-obsolescence
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Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
64548403
Namuwiki ID
계획적 구식화
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
1292490
Quora topic ID
Planned-Obsolescence
ScienceDirect topic ID
computer-science/planned-obsolescence, social-sciences/planned-obsolescence
Treccani ID
obsolescenza-programmata
Yale LUX ID
concept/28c398e3-a241-44fd-8118-f910bfeab2ad

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🔗 Connections
Subclass of 3
business process, obsolescence, manufacturing process management
Examples 1
Phoebus cartel
Instance of 1
destruction
Subject has role 1
profit maximization
← Has cause 1
overconsumption
← Opposite of 1
right to repair
← Partially coincident with 1
safe-life design
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Summary

planned obsolescence is a destruction[1]. It is a type of manufacturing process management[2], obsolescence[3], and business process[4].

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  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 29d ago · Alex rosenberg35 · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    "Changed claim: Instance of: destruction"
  2. 4w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → product-obsolescence
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: product-obsolescence, Matched to product obsolescence (#289949459) in…"
  3. 17w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) → 3HnGOj
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #40849: ZGBK ID"
  4. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subject has role → profit maximization
    Subclass of → manufacturing process management, obsolescence, business process
    Instance of → destruction
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007538594805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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