By leveraging additive manufacturing processes, maintenance and sustainment operations can solve many supply chain issues that plague legacy platforms, improving overall operational effectiveness while lowering costs. In an effort to expand the use of additive manufacturing in locations where standard supply chains have unacceptably long lead times for delivery, a CTMA initiative has created a prototype portable manufacturing system. The overall goal is to create a system that can enable rapid production of parts that allow for, at minimum, temporary repair while new replacement parts are in transit.
- The portable manufacturing system will function similarly to the way that Emergency Medical Services by focusing on triage and stabilizing a patient; they are optimized to meet the most critical needs of maintainers while in the field.
- This project places more emphasis on enabling rapid implementation of parts through secure access to engineering data stored in a government digital repository of approved designs.
- This system includes capabilities for design improvements of faulty parts, enabling real-time evaluation for future refinements.
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