Breakthrough Technologies to Improve Supply Chain Processing
Abstract
There is a distinct need within the DoN to enhance operational fleet readiness, reduce energy consumption, and reduce total ownership costs. Identify opportunities for using breakthrough technologies that will enhance operational fleet readiness, reduce energy consumption, and enable parts on demand manufacturing by defining the Warfighter Payoff and enhanced naval capabilities. Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a technology that is capable of helping the DoN achieve these goals through tighter integration of the maintenance/supply order fulfillment process. The term "additive manufacturing" describes processes that build three dimensional objects layer by layer from a variety of materials including plastics and structural metals.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2016
- Source ID
- fa75a9dae20d241d5da71990522dd465