Additive manufacturing: towards a new operations management paradigm?
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To amount to a new industrial revolution, the technological changes brought by additive manufacturing must go side by side with new operations management practices. What will these practices be, that fully reap the gains from additive manufacturing? The case study of a firm adopting this technology offers some preliminary answers.
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