Assessment of the potential economic impact of the use of AM technologies in the cost levels of manufacturing and stocking of spare part products

Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies are appropriate manufacturing technologies to produce low rotation products of high added value. Products in the spare parts business usually have discontinuous demand levels of reduced numbers of parts. Indeed, spare parts inventories handle myriad of produc...

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Autores: Minguella Canela, Joaquim|||0000-0002-0552-1687, Morales Planas, Sergio, Gomà Ayats, Joan Ramon|||0000-0001-8217-7368, Santos López, M. Antonia de los|||0000-0002-3995-0041
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/124990
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/124990
https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma11081429
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Costs, Industrial
Manufacturing processes
Engineering economy
Production engineering
Additive manufacturing
Design
Topological optimization
Cost
Stock
Spare parts
Free-form filament fabrication (FFF)
Costos de producció
Fabricació
Economia industrial
Enginyeria de producció
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria mecànica::Aspectes econòmics
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Economia i organització d'empreses::Direcció d'operacions
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Economia i organització d'empreses::Direcció d'operacions::Anàlisi de processos de negoci i de fabricació
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Sumario:Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies are appropriate manufacturing technologies to produce low rotation products of high added value. Products in the spare parts business usually have discontinuous demand levels of reduced numbers of parts. Indeed, spare parts inventories handle myriad of products that require big immobilized investments while having an intrinsic risk of no-use (for example due to obsolescence or spoilage). Based on these issues, the present work analyses the fundamental cost factors in a real case study of a company dedicated to the supply of spare parts for fluid conduction systems. Real inventory data is assessed to determine the product taxonomy and its associated costs. A representative product of the stock is analyzed in detail on original manufacturing costs, in AM costs and then redesigned with topological optimization to reduce the AM cost levels (via design for additive manufacturing). A general equation for cost assessment is formulated. Given the specific data collected from the company, the parameters in this general equation are calculated. Finally, the general equation and the product cost reduction achieved are used to explore the potential economic impact of the use of AM technologies in the cost levels of manufacturing and stocking of spare part products.