The Adoption of Additive Manufacturing Technology in Sweden
(2016) 13th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing - Decoupling Growth from Resource Use 2015 In Procedia CIRP 40. p.7-12- Abstract
This paper analyzes the adoption of Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies in Sweden. The dataset consists of a recent and representative sample of Swedish AM users (companies, universities, and research institutes). The authors investigate two questions. Firstly, what are the current applications of AM in Sweden (e.g. Rapid Prototyping (RP), production)? Secondly, what are the factors that can explain the variation in AM adoption among the users? Using a regression analysis technique, the main findings are as follows. (i) There is a variation among users' choice of AM application, and the majority of users are expanding their AM applications beyond RP. (ii) There are two factors that positively affect the decision of firms to expand... (More)
This paper analyzes the adoption of Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies in Sweden. The dataset consists of a recent and representative sample of Swedish AM users (companies, universities, and research institutes). The authors investigate two questions. Firstly, what are the current applications of AM in Sweden (e.g. Rapid Prototyping (RP), production)? Secondly, what are the factors that can explain the variation in AM adoption among the users? Using a regression analysis technique, the main findings are as follows. (i) There is a variation among users' choice of AM application, and the majority of users are expanding their AM applications beyond RP. (ii) There are two factors that positively affect the decision of firms to expand classical RP and also incorporate production and management. These two factors are using multiple AM technologies (as opposed to single Fused Deposition Modeling technology) and being small companies. The authors discuss the implication of these results.
(Less)
- author
- Kianian, Babak LU ; Tavassoli, Sam LU ; Larsson, Tobias C. and Diegel, Olaf LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2016
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- 3D Printing, Additive Manufacturing, Application, Production Technology, Sweden
- host publication
- 13th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing - Decoupling Growth from Resource Use 2015
- series title
- Procedia CIRP
- volume
- 40
- pages
- 6 pages
- publisher
- Elsevier
- conference name
- 13th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing - Decoupling Growth from Resource Use 2015
- conference location
- Binh Duong New City, Viet Nam
- conference dates
- 2015-09-16 - 2015-09-18
- external identifiers
-
- wos:000379243200002
- scopus:84966461928
- ISSN
- 2212-8271
- ISBN
- 9781510820722
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.procir.2016.01.036
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 210beace-b7b0-4622-a3de-35b3e68dc47b
- date added to LUP
- 2016-10-06 16:03:53
- date last changed
- 2024-05-04 16:01:54
@inproceedings{210beace-b7b0-4622-a3de-35b3e68dc47b, abstract = {{<p>This paper analyzes the adoption of Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies in Sweden. The dataset consists of a recent and representative sample of Swedish AM users (companies, universities, and research institutes). The authors investigate two questions. Firstly, what are the current applications of AM in Sweden (e.g. Rapid Prototyping (RP), production)? Secondly, what are the factors that can explain the variation in AM adoption among the users? Using a regression analysis technique, the main findings are as follows. (i) There is a variation among users' choice of AM application, and the majority of users are expanding their AM applications beyond RP. (ii) There are two factors that positively affect the decision of firms to expand classical RP and also incorporate production and management. These two factors are using multiple AM technologies (as opposed to single Fused Deposition Modeling technology) and being small companies. The authors discuss the implication of these results.</p>}}, author = {{Kianian, Babak and Tavassoli, Sam and Larsson, Tobias C. and Diegel, Olaf}}, booktitle = {{13th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing - Decoupling Growth from Resource Use 2015}}, isbn = {{9781510820722}}, issn = {{2212-8271}}, keywords = {{3D Printing; Additive Manufacturing; Application; Production Technology; Sweden}}, language = {{eng}}, pages = {{7--12}}, publisher = {{Elsevier}}, series = {{Procedia CIRP}}, title = {{The Adoption of Additive Manufacturing Technology in Sweden}}, url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2016.01.036}}, doi = {{10.1016/j.procir.2016.01.036}}, volume = {{40}}, year = {{2016}}, }