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Supply Chain Modifications to Improve Additive Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing (AM) offers unique production characteristics which among those,
toollessness and production of complex geometries are potentially significant to operations
efficiency. Previous research has illustrated the potential sufficiency of this technology to affect the
supply chains‟ arrangements and enabling decentralized production configurations. While, one of
the important advantages of AM enabled distributed production is the increased flexibility, which is
a necessity in today‟s competitive and ever changing global supply chains, number of obstacles
have kept this method from wide implementation. In this paper, we study the possible supply chain
modifications to decrease the cost of an AM-enabled decentralized production system. In other
words, we perform a cost-benefit analysis on various AM supply chain strategies in a spare parts
context to realize the independent operational factors affecting the implementation cost of additive
manufacturing. Moreover, we analyze the ways to adapt the supply chain management to enable full
potential of AM considering the present technology.Mechanical Engineerin