Abstract
Additively manufactured products offer extensive variety to consumers than many forms of production. Additive manufacturing (AM) production system allows consumer involvement, which has created a huge but largely untapped market. However, there is a gap between production and the market. Therefore, AM towards product production which focuses on the Commercialization of Additive Manufactured Products (CAMPs) is imperative. Despite the importance of CAMP, specific focus of research on the commercialization of additively manufactured products are scanty. There is also a lack of knowledge about the conceptual structure, intellectual structure, research trends, and the thematic structure of CAMP research. To contribute to this stream of research, this study takes an exploratory dimension by conducting a bibliometric analysis of publications on the CAMP. The R package and its associated biblioshiny were the software used. The study reveals that studies on CAMP started in 2007 with renewed interest starting from 2012. Importantly, it was found that the most cited articles focused on the economic potential of AM products in the home and specific industries. Also, there is an increasing focus on the business models that are necessary for the commercialisation of AM products. Generally, there is a shift in focus from the firm to the market. However, this is a niche area and requires more attention. Themes such as commercialization are just emerging, and researchers need to devote more time and effort to the consumer side of the commercialization of AM products.
Highlights
Additive manufacturing towards product production is the commercialization of Additive manufactured products
To answer the research questions and provide an accurate representation of the state of the literature on commercialization of additive manufactured products (CAMP) and collaborative activities in the process of Commercialization of Additive Manufactured Products (CAMPs) research, a two-tier analysis that included bibliometric analysis of articles collected from the Web of Science and Scopus databases, as well as cluster analysis, were conducted
CAMP research was investigated by analysing the documents produced on the topic over the last one and a half decades [starting in 2007] and answering the following questions: Who are the major contributors to CAMP research? What is CAMP research’s intellectual, conceptual and social structure? What has changed in CAMP research over time?
Summary
Additive manufacturing towards product production is the commercialization of Additive manufactured products. Additive manufacturing (AM) which is generally referred to as 3D printing belongs to a group of technologies that use a computer-generated model to create a three-dimensional (3D) object based on the information provided by a computerized program [1]. It is a paradigm shift from the conventional subtractive methods (casting, forging, sheet forming, extrusion, etc.) of manufacturing [2]. Additive manufacturing joined materials together layer-by-layer monolithically as opposed to subtractive manufacturing approach of the conventional methods [3].
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