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Advanced Manufacturing Not Yet Adding Up for the Army
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Future of Manufacturing - Industry 4.0
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Being an early adopter for a complex, modern army to apply additive manufacturing to field operations, mitigate supply chain challenges, and maintain readiness won't happen overnight. The leadership vision and resources to move from concept to viable replacement parts for deployed soldiers will happen. Appreciate all the work going on across the Army, especially TACOM, to implement additive technologies. Consider how far they've come already through the "crawl" phase of implementing additive technology to produce simple components in the field according to Brian Butler, Deputy to the Commander, TACOM:
TACOM started by evaluating 146,000 parts and components. They distilled that down to 1,000 that could potentially be produced through additive manufacturing.
Out of that thousand, we've got just a little over 200 that we've been able to actually qualify, with a hundred of those only being available for battle damage assessment and repair.
Stay with it!
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