Eternal Spare Part

Basics

• "Eternal Spare Part" is a name for an emerging commercial concept, that is also intrinsic to any Open Source Hardware
• Essentially via Digital Fabrication and Computer Aided Design becoming mainstream, in theory you should be able to acquire a spare part at any time for any qualifying thing; tooling will never be decommissioned, and worrying about finding parts in a Junkyard etc is of no concern

Internal Links

• Part Library (This should be what is needed for OSE to do this, right? Maybe a cleaner page / GUI, and perhaps a smoother process to ordering/using existing Manufacturing as a Service / 3D Printing as a Service platforms, but otherwise OSE is "good to go" right?

External Links

• An Article by "3D Print . Com" Titled "The 3D Printed Eternal Spare Part is a Quantum Leap in Supply Chain Management"