... to the democratization of the technology and involves 3D printers used by end consumers. Consequently, a market-size explosion is likely to occur within the next decade, mainly from the mass adoption of AM (Verhoef et al., 2018) and the exponential growth of the sales of industrial 3D printing systems (Ben...

...’ strategies related to various supply chain positions and does so by departing from a position and role point of view. Three business cases related to metal 3D printing - illustrating sub-suppliers, manufacturers and logistics firms - describe as many strategies. Data for the cases were collected through...