New technologies, especially additive manufacturing processes, enable the creation of new products with an even higher level of customization which can be manufactured on demand. They are about to revolutionize the spare parts supply chains. The downside is that many traditional manufacturing companies and service providers will drop out of the supply chains because their know-how is no longer needed. The intellectual property of these companies will become, as it were, worthless. Nobody knows precisely when this will happen, but because of the rapid technological advances being made, I predict that it will be sooner rather than later.