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Additive manufacturing as a strategic tool for industrial competition

conference contribution
posted on 2017-02-09, 14:23 authored by Francesco G. Sisca, Cecilia M. Angioletti, Marco Taisch, James ColwillJames Colwill
Additive Manufacturing (AM), often misleadingly referred to as 3D Printing (3DP), comprises of a group of technologies whose initial inception occurred over thirty years ago within the product design and development applications for the rapid prototyping of concepts, primarily using polymeric materials. Over the past few years AM development has increased exponentially and 3D Printing has expanded to include new areas of research such as 4D Printing, Nano AM, Contour Crafting and so on. However, a proper understanding of the technology's actual and potential benefits to industrial manufacturing has not been approached by practitioners and researchers in detail and industrial end-users risk missing the opportunity to make competitive choices due to the lack of an impartial and realistic overview. Real and tangible industrial benefits are often misunderstood due to the dissemination of information delivered with a mindset grown on a maker-side market, which misses to scope for AM in industrial applications. The aim of the paper is presenting a detailed overview of AM applications in the industrial world, focusing on the likely impacts on organizations and, moreover, to highlight and discuss the potential employments of the technology within the industrial value chain.

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School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

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2016 IEEE 2nd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry Leveraging a better tomorrow (RTSI) 2016 IEEE 2nd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry Leveraging a Better Tomorrow, RTSI 2016

Citation

SISCA, F.G. ... et al, 2016. Additive manufacturing as a strategic tool for industrial competition. IN: 2016 IEEE 2nd International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry Leveraging a better tomorrow (RTSI), Bologna, Italy, 7th-9th September 2016.

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© IEEE

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

Acceptance date

2016-09-07

Publication date

2016

Notes

This paper is closed access.

ISBN

9781509011315

Language

  • en

Location

Bologna, Italy

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