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- Title
Evaluating Business Models ENABLING ORGANIC ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING for Maintenance and Sustainment.
- Authors
Totin, Ashley N.; Connor, Brett P.
- Abstract
The Department of Defense (DoD) must sustain aircraft through the platform's life cycle. Additive manufacturing could enable DoD organizations to produce spare parts themselves (i.e., organic production), at the pointof- need, anywhere around the globe. For the government to produce spare parts in-house, new business models between the manufacturer and the government have to be established for transacting technical data packages instead of physical spare parts. Can a digital business model be profitable, and can a return on investment (ROI) be achieved within a commercial time horizon? The research includes a survey within government and industry and an analysis using an aviation case study to examine the profitability of four business models. The results show that under the right conditions of nonrecurring costs, digital service costs, and file demand quantities, digital business models can indeed be profitable, although conditions leading to an ROI within 2 or 4 years are limited.
- Subjects
UNITED States. Dept. of Defense; BUSINESS models; SPARE parts; MANUFACTURING processes; RATE of return; MAINTENANCE equipment; TIME perspective
- Publication
Defense Acquisition Research Journal: A Publication of the Defense Acquisition University, 2019, Vol 26, Issue 4, p379
- ISSN
2156-8391
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22594/dau.18-815.26.04