Product — Spare parts digitalization

Digital
Inventory

Additive manufacturing for spare parts made easy.

Transform physical spare parts inventories into secure, actionable digital assets — and build your additive manufacturing programme at any scale.

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The challenge

Spare parts inventories are expensive, rigid, and fragile

Industrial companies manage thousands of spare parts across global supply chains — without the structured data needed to optimise, modernise, or de-risk them.

Excessive capital tied up

Low-rotation inventory consumes working capital and warehouse space with limited strategic value.

Obsolescence risk

Aging equipment faces parts unavailability — and without 3D data, alternatives are impossible to qualify.

Long lead times

Single-source supplier dependency creates fragility — any disruption can halt production for weeks or months.

No structured data

Without standardised, auditable digital records per part, there is no clear path to assess additive manufacturing feasibility at scale.

3-step solution

From physical stock to digital inventory

DigiPART Identification

Spare parts identification & prioritization

With our proprietary tool, DigiPART, we analyze equipment BOMs, maintenance history, stock data and part descriptions to identify and prioritize candidates for additive manufacturing.

Each part is assessed for additive manufacturing technical suitability, business impact and obsolescence risk — generating a ranked shortlist with clear quick wins and long-term targets.

additive manufacturing suitability screening
Business impact ranking
Obsolescence risk scoring
Quick wins vs. long-term targets

DigiPART Passport

Digital passport creation

With DigiPART Passport, each identified part becomes a structured, auditable, certification-ready digital record.

Passports capture all the data needed to qualify and reproduce a part — from geometry to materials, supplier documents, test reports and qualification workflows — locked at validation and immutably auditable.

Certified digital manufacturing

Structured, auditable, certification-ready datasets per part — geometry, materials, specs, NDT reports.

Full audit trail

Immutable record of who did what, when, in which role, for every step of the workflow.

Criticality-appropriate workflows

Templates matched to AMC classification — AMC1 (low criticality) through AMC3 (high criticality).

Reusable templates

Technology and criticality-specific templates that scale across assets and programmes.

Enable additive manufacturing at scale

Transition from digital inventory to execution — connect passported parts to a global, qualified printing network.

Parts with approved passports can be dispatched for production through internal capabilities or via SP3D's supplier network of 123+ qualified 3D printing providers across 25 countries.

Internal or external production
Local or global printing networks
Controlled qualification workflows
Full traceability on production

Delivery model

Adapted to your maturity level

Whether you're launching your first additive manufacturing programme or scaling an established one, SP3D adapts to where you are.

Service-based engagement

SP3D executes the full project end-to-end — from data collection to passport creation and print dispatch. You get results fast, without needing internal additive manufacturing expertise.

Best for

First additive manufacturing programmes
Resource-constrained teams
Fast, tangible results

You get

Full analysis and delivery
100% data ownership
Clear roadmap and reporting

Software subscription

Your teams use DigiPART and DigiPART Passport tools directly, with SP3D's methodology embedded. Ideal for companies building long-term additive manufacturing capability.

Best for

Mature additive manufacturing users
Large or complex inventories
Long-term scalability

You get

Full platform access
Embedded methodology & training
Data ownership & audit trail

Business results

What Digital Inventory delivers

Measurable outcomes for industrial companies building their additive manufacturing programme with SP3D.

↓30%

Reduction in spare parts inventory value through additive manufacturing-ready digitalization

↑3×

Faster lead times via on-demand local printing vs. traditional suppliers

100%

Data ownership retained across service and software models

Parts availability

Higher uptime

Supply chain

Resilient & local

additive manufacturing adoption

Faster rollout

Use cases

Typical Digital Inventory applications

SP3D has helped manufacturers across sectors address their spare parts issues. Click to discover how each industry generates value.

Energy operators

Securing critical assets, reducing downtime on aging infrastructure, enabling distributed parts production at remote sites.

Aerospace MRO

Meeting strict qualification requirements while reducing MRO inventory, lead times and obsolescence risk on legacy platforms.

Defense organisations

Enabling operational readiness and logistics resilience for defence organisations managing complex fleets and long lifecycles.

Industrial manufacturers

Reducing MRO stock and unlocking on-demand production capabilities for high-mix, low-volume spare parts portfolios.

Maritime & shipping

Transforming marine MRO by enabling on-board or port-side production of critical parts to minimise vessel downtime.

EPCs & OEMs

Supporting installed base management and helping OEMs offer digital spare parts services to their clients worldwide.

DigitalInventory

Spare parts inventories are expensive, rigid, and fragile

From physical stock to digital inventory

Spare parts identification & prioritization

Digital passport creation

Enable additive manufacturing at scale

Adapted to your maturity level

Service-based engagement

Software subscription

What Digital Inventory delivers

Typical Digital Inventory applications

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