3D Printing Possible Impact on the Aviation industry (PLG1)
According to this article, ‘3D printing’ has changed ways in which things are done globally, making it be the most significant single disruptive phenomenon that has impacted the air cargo globally since it has introduced the assembly lines in the early twentieth century of its establishment.
Development and advancements in technology brought about by ‘3D printing’ are expected to be the cause of revolution within the production technology, which may result in a tremendous and significant proportion of the manufacturing sector becoming automated and removing existing reliance on extensive as well as costly workforces. This is expected to lead to a universal trend in the globalization sector, which has been the excellent characterization of the industry and consumption over the last few decades, with it being significantly predicated in between the transportation sector and the labor costs.
This article has elaborated that ‘3D printing’ is significantly expected to change the demand that is there for air cargo. However, this is supposed to great a much longer time than expected. It has also led to development and advancements in technology, leading to online shopping. This means that the order and delivery of goods, as well as reaching the clients, will be simplified with this new development, leading to local production and easy access to these goods and services. As predicted, within the coming centuries, the only cargo which may necessarily need to be moved from one place to another is the printer feedback, and this most likely does not require the advantage of the fast speed that air cargo offers. This is exceptional of other personal goods, household items, and other bulky goods. Therefore, air cargo is much expected to bring a turnaround of events and make life much more comfortable than it is today.
Globalization has brought about tremendous benefits on the shipping lines, airlines, as well as the freight forwarders enormously since great qualities of consumer goods, are easily moved internationally within the western markets and entire globe from the Far East and other manufacturer’s centers. As a result, any challenge that may face the globalization sector must be taken into serious consideration and be viewed as a cause of threat to the entire transportation industry. However, this comes with a package of benefits and great opportunities, as well.
For example, the inventory costs and product obsolescence is expected to be virtually eliminated by 3D printing. Therefore, this means that air cargo is dependent on the changes in the 3D revolution making it be the just-in-time manufacturing process since it is relevant that a just-in-time process can be easily used and be of great benefit for the production of goods and service delivery. This is expected to make manufacturing more decentralized and large-scale production operations, which in the past few decades have provided economies of scale.
Therefore, with time and advancements in technology, the Walmart of future is going to be entirely dependent on the 3D printers where one can quickly go and order a product and specify that the product should be printed and he/she wants it to be, without having to go through a tiresome process in order to achieve this.