Opportunities And Impacts Of Additive Manufacturing: A Literature Review

Authors

Sim Kim Lau, School of Computing and Information Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Information Science, University of Wollongong, AustraliaFollow
Nelson K. Y. Leung, Department of Information Systems, Entrepreneurship and Logistics Faculty of Business and Law, Swinburne University of Technology, AuFollow

Document Type

Article

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.

Recommended Citation

Lau, Sim Kim and Leung, Nelson K. Y., "Opportunities And Impacts Of Additive Manufacturing: A Literature Review" (2015). ICEB 2015 Proceedings (Hong Kong, SAR China). 28.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/iceb2015/28