The digitalization of intra‐and inter‐organizational processes offers significant opportunity
for research in the field of operations and supply chain management (OSCM). This essay …

As the 3D printing polymer material extrusion process is moving beyond niche markets and
into large-scale manufacturing, still commercial systems employed by this process work in …

Additive Manufacturing (AM), often referred to as 3D printing, is expected to have a high
impact on the manufacturing industry as well as on society. The inherent characteristics of …

This editorial introduces the special issue in the Elsevier journal Computers in Industry that
analyses how the digital transformation of manufacturing is speeded up by two important …

In just a few short years, the additive manufacturing (AM) technology known as 3D printing
has experienced intense growth from a niche technology to a disruptive innovation that has …

Featured Application This work provides an overview of 3D printing, include a survey on the
related publications by different aspects as a benchmark for future research and …

Fused Deposition modelling (FDM) is one of the most widely used Additive Manufacturing
technologies that extrude a melted plastic filament through a heated nozzle in order to build …

Abstract Industry 4.0, boosting the integration of sophisticated computational and
manufacturing technologies, has profoundly reshaped the way to deal with market …

This paper analyses the main research direction for the digital transformation of
manufacturing and its important drivers: cloud services and resource virtualization that have …

How does a firm's value chain digitalization contribute to its innovation in value chains? This
study investigates innovation activities in value chains from a combination of distributed …