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How will manufacturing immortality affect the product life cycle?

ESCATEC Mechatronics Ltd News and PR from ESCATEC Mechatronics Ltd - Published 28 July 2020 Achieving manufacturing immortality through self-healing materials might be good for the consumer and the environment, but what could it mean for the product life cycle as a whole?
What are self-healing materials?
Self-healing materials include reversible polymers, biomaterials, inorganic capsules, self-healing coatings, shape-memory materials, and vascular systems. They are used across industries such as healthcare, military, construction, electronics, telecoms, aerospace, and energy generation. Analysts predict the market could be worth $4.13 Billion by 2025.

In practice this means all kinds of extraordinary developments from satellites repairing themselves in deep space, to phone screens 'healing' organically when they're damaged.

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The latest advances in self-healing materials are certainly underlining the huge benefits to consumers of the technology

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