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Managing 3D Printing

Operations Management for Additive Manufacturing

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Unique focus on the management, rather than technical engineering aspects of 3DP
  • Contributors are established and leading authors in 3DP management
  • Emphasis on the application of research in practice

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Introduction

    • Daniel Eyers
    Pages 1-6
  3. Implementation Scenarios for 3DP

    • Michael Ryan
    Pages 7-24
  4. Technology Adoption Models for 3DP

    • Mia Delić
    Pages 25-44
  5. Additive Manufacturing as an Enabler of Digital Spare Parts

    • Siavash H. Khajavi, Mika Salmi, Jan Holmström
    Pages 45-60
  6. Service Levels in Make-to-Order Production: 3D Printing Applications

    • Carl Philip T. Hedenstierna, Stephen M. Disney, Jan Holmström
    Pages 61-75
  7. Flexibility Strategies for 3DP

    • Daniel Eyers
    Pages 77-96
  8. Sustainability for 3DP Operations

    • Paolo Minetola, Paolo C. Priarone, Giuseppe Ingarao
    Pages 97-126
  9. Returning to the Beginning: Enabling Craft Production Using 3DP

    • Andrew Potter, Jonathan Gosling, Michael Ryan
    Pages 127-142
  10. Operationalisation of 3D Printing Service Provision

    • Helen Rogers, Christos Braziotis
    Pages 161-177
  11. 3DP and the Domestication of Supply Chains in the Future

    • Tillmann Böhme, Thomas Birtchnell
    Pages 179-190
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 191-194

About this book

This edited book serves to unify the current state of knowledge for 3D printing /

Additive Manufacturing and its impact on manufacturing operations. Bringing

together leading experts from across the operations and supply chain disciplines

the contributions offer a concise, accessible, and focused text for researchers and

practitioners alike. Showing how 3DP can be implemented in a multitude of business

models, the book explores how to manage 3DP both in the production environment

and wider supply chain.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

    Daniel Eyers

About the editor

Daniel Eyers is Senior Lecturer in Manufacturing Systems Management at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK. He is Chartered Engineer with extensive industry experience, and he draws upon this in much of his interdisciplinary work. Daniel’s research focuses on the implications of advanced manufacturing technologies for operations and supply chain management, and for over a decade this has explicitly focused on 3D printing / Additive Manufacturing.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Managing 3D Printing

  • Book Subtitle: Operations Management for Additive Manufacturing

  • Editors: Daniel Eyers

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23323-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23322-8Published: 27 March 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23325-9Published: 26 August 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23323-5Published: 26 March 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 194

  • Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Logistics, Innovation/Technology Management

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eBook USD 169.00
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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 219.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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