Difficult to manufacture (basically manually)

Easier to manufacture, 30% cheaper than old component

Low performance (bottleneck in its process)

Higher in performance, power loss decreased 70%, output volume increased 25%

Assembling required manual fitting every time

Parts consolidation: 3

Parts consolidation: 14

Easy design scalability for other configurations in the future

Low quality

High quality

No existing supply chain but the possibility to establish a new supply chain

Cost per spare part same (in a batch of four) compared to casted spare parts (in a batch of 100) resulting in substantial savings (as estimated needed spare parts somewhere between 10 and 30)

In potential new supply chain batch size too large for end-of-life maintenance of vehicle fleet

Obsolete spare part, no good blueprints existing

Ensures future availability of the spare part

No existing supply chain nor the potential for new supply chain

Viable solution to ensure availability of spare parts, as original spare parts could no longer be purchased or could not easily be sourced as manually custom-made spare part

Hard to manufacture and much manual welding and grinding would become costly

Quality and lead time great

Last spare part in the warehouse was very low quality

Cost acceptable