3D Printing

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The warehousing link in the supply chain is expensive, labor-intensive, and fraught with potential error. Digitization will certainly eliminate much of its inefficiency and integrate the process into the entire supply chain. Meanwhile, 3D printing is poised to transform this critical link in the chain even further. Consider the problem of spare parts. At many warehouses, more than half of all orders shipped are one-time requests for spare parts, and the demand for them is highly erratic, almost impossible to predict. That’s why companies typically maintain huge inventories of parts, many of which must be kept for 30 years or more if customers are to keep operating older machines. Already, digitization is revolutionizing the warehousing and distribution of spare parts. Sophisticated analytics software allows demand for spare parts to be forecast much more precisely, through solutions such as predictive maintenance of industrial vehicles and machines. That in turn allows companies to optimize spare parts storage and distribution, as Already, digitization is revolutionizing the warehousing and distribution of spare parts. The benefits include dramatic reductions in spare parts inventories and associated costs. Just as important, customers can count on much greater uptime for critical equipment, as problems are anticipated and spare parts arrive much more quickly. Indeed, the capacity to add predictive maintenance services to industrial equipment, and the ability to deliver parts in a timely fashion, is instrumental to the shift to Industry .

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