Immature systems can be plagued by high costs, high risks, and schedule delays. System maturity models are utilized to quantitatively analyze a system’s readiness to indicate whether the system is prepared to proceed to the next acquisition phase during development. Most system maturity models...
Spare parts models have typically focused on the number of spares physically required to maintain system availability and optimize replacement policies, such as block or age replacement and variants thereof. In an era where additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, as it is popularly known,...