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The Adoption of Additive Manufacturing Technology in Sweden

Kianian, Babak LU ; Tavassoli, Sam LU ; Larsson, Tobias C. and Diegel, Olaf LU (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.

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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
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  • wos:000379243200002
  • scopus:84966461928
ISSN
2212-8271
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9781510820722
DOI
10.1016/j.procir.2016.01.036
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English
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