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Organizations strive to find new ways to manage the production of strategic spare parts with unanticipated demand and high delivery time. Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a revolutionary technology that effectively serves such needs by producing compatible spare parts in a shorter period without holding inventories. Although the promising benefits of spare parts production through AM, research is scarce in this domain. This study is developed to demonstrate the applicability of AM in spare part manufacturing. We have proposed a novel generic multi-criteria framework using Delphi, analytical hierarchy process (AHP), and segmentation approaches to identify the most compatible spares producible through AM. The applicability of the proposed framework is illustrated through a real-life case study. Delphi is used to determine and validate relevant criteria considered for spare part classification. This results in …