...Gonçalo Cardeal; Inês Ribeiro; Marco Leite Purpose This paper studies the potential of additive manufacturing (AM) as a strategy for optimizing spare parts supply chains in continuous process industries. It explores how AM impacts traditional supply chain practices, particularly in relation...

..., the application of PdM in spare parts inventory management across the supply chain (SC) has not been sufficiently investigated and its digital transformation (DT) requirements have not been adequately researched. Therefore, this study aims to analyse the organisational readiness for the use of integrated spare...

...Rosa Maria Ballardini; Iñigo Flores Ituarte; Eujin Pei Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the technology, business and intellectual property issues surrounding the production of spare parts through additive manufacturing (AM) from a digital source. It aims to identify challenges...

... reasons for this discrepancy and to develop a method to simplify the identification of economically valuable and technologically feasible business cases. Design/methodology/approach The approach is based on the analytic hierarchy process and relies on spare part information, that is easily retrievable...

...Adolfo Crespo Márquez, Beno^t Iung, Marco Macchi and Khairy Kobbacy; Irene Roda; Marco Macchi; Luca Fumagalli; Pablo Viveros Purpose – Spare parts management plays a relevant role for equipment-intensive companies. An important step of such process is the spare parts classification, enabling...

...Mehmet Savsar Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present models and practical procedures for the analysis of maintenance operations and development of maintenance policies in the context of an oil filling factory. Basic maintenance models, maintenance policy selection and optimum spare part...

...Jan Holmström; Jouni Partanen; Jukka Tuomi; Manfred Walter Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe and evaluate the potential approaches to introduce rapid manufacturing (RM) in the spare parts supply chain. Design/methodology/approach Alternative conceptual designs for deploying RM...

... information, also pointing out emerging avenues for further scholarly contributions. Design/methodology/approach The supply chain is viewed from a spare part consumer as well as from a supplier perspective. Key to the discussion is an accurate description of the maintenance demand pattern (MDP) known...

...Hugo Simao; Warren Powell Purpose An aircraft manufacturer faces the problem of allocating inventory to a set of distributed warehouses in response to random, nonstationary demands. There is particular interest in managing high value, low volume spare parts which must be available to respond...