The Adoption of Additive Manufacturing Technology in Sweden

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The Adoption of Additive Manufacturing Technology in Sweden

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 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. 

KEYWORDS

Additive Manufacturing, 3D Printing, Application, Production Technology, Sweden

CITATION

Kianian, B., Tavassoli, S., Larsson, T., Diegel, O. (2015) The Adoption of Additive Manufacturing Technology in Sweden. DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2016.01.036

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