Additive manufacturing (AM) is a printing technology which can produce 3-dimensional solid object by adding layers of material from 3D model data. AM has numerous benefits and can bring a new industrial revolution. To have a smooth transition in the technology, organizations must consider involved stakeholders’ interests. However, different stakeholders have different interests and influences. As more affected stakeholders resist adopting new technology as it will affect the firm directly or indirectly. These diverse interests cause barriers to the adoption of technology. This research aims to find out the primary and secondary stakeholders and how they influence each other in the adoption of AM, and what are the barriers caused due to these influences. The two sources of primary data are gathered from the research participants and analyzed thematically. Our findings reveal that the primary stakeholders are material suppliers, regulators bodies, and medical device/pharmaceutical companies and have a high influence on the adoption of AM as these stakeholders are hard to replace and need constant collaboration with each other. The secondary stakeholders are AM designers, insurance companies, educational and training organizations, funding organizations, NGOs. AM designer and insurance companies have less power and influence, while academic and training organizations and NGOs have a high influence since they are knowledge and training providers. Barriers faced in the adoption of AM technology are immature technology, less raw material availability, changes in the regulation, knowledge gap. This study implies that there is immense scope to explore the technology to gain maximum benefits. This study stands to give an understanding of stakeholder involvement, their influence, and their barriers in the adoption of AM technology.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-448050 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Parasa, Sairaj, Basha, Mohammed Abujan Rehman |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | SAMINT-MILI ; 21043 |
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