I'm not sure it should be overcome.

Updating software is not a panacea and not always the best thing to do. In industrial hardware it's often better to have a known quantity.

Especially with equipment that can cause damage or even kill people.

Even if it isn't quite that high stakes, dealing with constant random updates is a cost factor with no clear commercial gain.

This doesn't mean there can't be updates, but they need to be done on the factory's schedule, not on the schedule of some random supplier.