Additive manufacturing (AM) has recently emerged as a potential breakthrough technology
in the world of spare parts management. Thanks to its characteristics, it can enable the
production of spare parts with very low production lead time, with considerable impacts in
terms of inventory levels. Some researchers have recently focused on the topic, trying to
understand whether it is convenient to produce spare parts in AM or in Conventional
Manufacturing (CM) techniques. However, all these works neglect a crucial aspect. Spare …