Impacts of Additive Manufacturing in Value Creation System

Nowadays, additive manufacturing (AM) reveal changes in the entire value creation models, strategies, systems and processes. Evidently, AM involve changes internal and external to companies e.g. on time to market strategies, product variety and customer satisfaction. The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of additive manufacturing on companies value creation, in which the focus is on single areas. To this end, we identify the relations between the utilized potentials and challenges, value creation processes and associated impacts. Analyzing this complex correlation and measuring the effects is demonstrated and identified, respectively, in a use-case study.