From a centralized production to a decentralized production
In operating environments where military equipments are highly exposed, the improvement of the maintenance process and material availability is a major issue. The choice of new technologies to bring together Terrestrial MOC and the land forces in operations offers very interesting operational perspectives for the armies.
One of the benefit of additive manufacturing is decentralized production, namely nearby production of the place where the piece will be used. In this context, the industrial don’t control its intellectual property anymore since it gives a digital plan to its military customer. Therefore he is no longer able to check that units in overseas operations printed the amount of pieces figuring on the purchase order nor they respected the manufacturing processes and methods. This breakthrough innovation raises the question of trust between diverging interests stakeholders, of economic model adaptation for this new production process and traded data intergrity.
