U.S. Marine Corps looks to 3D printing and additive manufacturing technologies to produce spare parts
With the growing availability of 3D printing means, any Marine could be a maker and learn to use the systems to make prototypes and parts.
19 July 2021
QUANTICO MARINE BASE, Va. – The Marine Corps wants to establish a secure, digital repository that Marines anywhere could tap into for help building needed spare parts with 3D printers. USNI News reports. Continue reading original article
The Military & Aerospace Electronics take:
19 July 2021 -- The Marine Corps today has a digital repository created over the last few years and populated with files, technical data, and other information to support additive manufacturing technologies, but it’s not organized as something like a detailed catalog.
The long-term goal is a true program-of-record style repository called the Digital Manufacturing Data Vault (DMDV) -- a one-stop-shop for approval process, version control, approved part drawings, and technical data packages for 3D printing.
https://www.militaryaerospace.com/computers/article/14206943/3d-printing-additive-manufacturing-spare-parts
