Opportunities and impacts of additive manufacturing: a literature review

Authors

Sim Kim Lau, University of WollongongFollow
Nelson K. Y Leung, Swinburne University of Technology

RIS ID

104194

Publication Details

Lau, S. Kim. & Leung, N. K. Y. (2015). Opportunities and impacts of additive manufacturing: a literature review. In T. C. Du & J. H. Cheng (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Electronic Business (pp. 350-354). Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Abstract

Additive manufacturing industry has experienced tremendous growth in the last decade. This paper aims to address the lack of insights and systematic research by investigating opportunity and impact of potential economic benefits of AM. Our results show that the number of publications in the AM research has increased exponentially since 2009. The papers have been identified into five themes: applications, country, opportunity, economics and social. Our results show that there are an increasing number of papers that investigate economic and social benefits of AM.

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Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Electronic Business