Electronics companies need to make it easier to offer replacement parts, upgrades and improved warranty plans, he says.

电子企业需要让替换零部件、升级和保修变得更容易。

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With constant upgrades in technological capability, they say, manufacturers build obsolescence into many of their designs, causing outdated electronics to become the bane of the waste system.

他们还提到，随着科技水平的不断提高，制造商们不断地淘汰、更新他们的设计，使到过时的电器成为废品系统膨胀的祸源。

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Likewise, this technology should be developed as an industry standard across all makes and models, with common electronics that would allow for easy serviceability or software upgrades, unlike all the poorly designed and unreliable touch control systems currently available, which by their nature will become woefully outdated and perhaps disdained by buyers in just a few years.

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But the shut-down schedule also includes upgrades to all four of the LHC's detectors, the shielding of electronics, and even an overhaul of the ventilation system of the tunnel that houses the main accelerator ring.

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