The Legacy Problem (Paperback)

Paperback. No date makes the machine you already own illegal. That is the problem: nothing forces the decision, so nobody takes it, and the cost rises every year.This book answers one question, completely, and says plainly where it stops.What the law does to equipment you already own - and the one act of yours that changes itThe three states people all call "no longer supported", and why only one is irreversibleThe three ways out, and how to tell which one you are already taking without having chosen itWhat an acceptance has to contain to still make sense in eight yearsHow to order a fleet when the budget covers two machines a yearWhat it deliberately does not give you. No configuration guidance, no checklists to copy, no templates. Every date, article and threshold in it was read from the official text of the instrument concerned, on the date stated inside, and quoted rather than described.Who it is for. Plant and maintenance managers, engineering, whoever signs the capital spend - and the builders of machines already out there.Part of The 2027 Series - six books on industrial (OT) cybersecurity under the new EU rules. They are not numbered and are not a course: each answers one question for one kind of company, and the closing pages say which of the others answers yours. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …