Purpose The rising interest in the integration of digital advanced manufacturing and
production systems in the Industry 4.0 context is one of the main factors in the introduction of …

This study addresses the gap in the comprehensive literature on the intersection of
readiness technology and changes in the manufacturing sector. This study employs a hybrid …

The additive manufacturing industry requires effective and standardized methods for
selecting design variants generated through computational tools. To address this need and …

Purpose This paper aims to propose a view similarity-based shape complexity metric to
guide part selection for additive manufacturing (AM) and advance the goals of design for …

Patent data contain plenty of valuable information. Recently, the lack of innovative ideas has
resulted in some enterprises encountering bottlenecks in product research and development …

Currently, organizations in the manufacturing sector are exposed to high levels of
competition and constant changes in consumer requirements. To survive in an increasingly …

Although the numbers of sold additive manufacturing (AM) systems are growing rapidly year
by year, the applications in series production are only quite a few. Part identification, which …

Additive Manufacturing (AM) brings opportunities to create designs with complex geometries
that would be impossible or very difficult to produce using conventional manufacturing …

The implementation of additive manufacturing enables the the re-thinking of a product
towards function-oriented design. This study proposes a method, which uses a set of rules …

This paper proposes an operational capability development framework to facilitate additive
manufacturing (AM) integration from an AM use case perspective. We conducted a single …