Integration of 3D printing in the Canadian aerospace value chain

以下研究项目旨在促进添加剂不同技术的集成 制造(AM)，也被称为3D打印，进入加拿大航空航天价值链。作为AM 技术最近以彻底改变游戏规则的方式出现在市场上，它们的优势和局限性仍然存在 仍然模糊不清，被误解。为了保持全球竞争力，加拿大的所有成员 航空航天行业必须通力合作，掌握这些技术。 当AM很好地集成到生产过程中时，AM可以提供重要的竞争优势。它允许 企业可以更快/更便宜地进行测试和原型制作，缩短商业化时间，定制更多产品， 减少资源浪费，以降低物流/运输成本、降低库存、减轻部件重量和 制造传统上不可能创造的产品。 虽然制造商和工程大学之间进行了大量的合作，但通过这个项目，我们 更进一步，主动为3D打印制造商构建战略整合计划 进入加拿大航空航天供应链。普惠技术知识在AM中的结合 凭借HEC在供应链管理方面的专业知识，蒙特利尔无疑将建立强有力的合作伙伴关系 这将加快加拿大AM专业知识的发展，提升国家创新潜力。 该研究项目主要由三项任务组成。第一个任务是识别和描述 成本动因和交货期方面的航空物流链。曾经的主要财务和时间障碍 确定后，将确定必要的投资和开发，以促进 在利润最高的企业实施加法制造。从那里，我们 将确定AM将盈利或不盈利的企业的概况以及原因。整个分析 将其作为企业评价模型呈现给制造企业进行可行性计算和 发展3D打印专业知识的好处。

The following research project aims to facilitate the integration of different technologies of additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, into the Canadian aerospace value chain. As AM technologies recently arrived on the market like total game changers, their advantages and limitations still remain blurry and misunderstood. In order to stay competitive worldwide, all members of the Canadian aerospace industry must work together to master these technologies. When well integrated in the production processes, AM can offer an important competitive advantage. It allows enterprises to test and prototype faster/cheaper, to reduce time to commercialization, to customize more, to waste less resources, to lower logistics/transportation costs, to lower inventories, to reduce part weight and to manufacture products that were traditionally impossible to create. While a lot of collaboration is done between manufacturers and engineering universities, with this project, we are going one step further by proactively building a strategic integration plan for 3D printing manufacturers into the Canadian aerospace supply chain. The combination of Pratt & Whitney technical knowledge in AM with the expertise in supply chain management of HEC Montreal will undoubtedly create a strong partnership that will accelerate the development of the Canadian AM expertise and boost the national innovation potential. The research project is mainly composed of three tasks. The first task is to identify and characterize the aerospace logistics chain in terms cost drivers and leadtimes. Once the major financial and temporal obstacles identified, the necessary investments and developments will be determined in order to facilitate the implementation of additive manufacturing in the enterprises where it will be most profitable. From there, we will identify the profile of the enterprises where AM will or will not be profitable and why. The whole analysis will be presented to the manufacturing enterprises as a business evaluation model calculating the feasibility and benefits of developing expertise in 3D printing.