Additive manufacturing technologies as a reshoring enabler: a why, where and how approach

Q3 Social Sciences

World Review of Intermodal Transportation Research Pub Date : 2018-07-28 DOI:10.1504/WRITR.2018.10014292

L. Fratocchi

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Abstract

The paper aims to investigate the hypothesis that additive manufacturing technologies (AMTs) may enable manufacturing reshoring, i.e., the repatriation of manufacturing activities earlier off-shored to foreign countries. Since the paper has an explorative nature, a two-steps, desk research strategy was adopted. In the first, a comparison between the extant literature regarding the two investigated phenomena (AMTs and manufacturing reshoring) is implemented according to a '2W & 1H' ('who', 'why' and 'how') perspective. In the second step, 11 cases of relocation of production activities supported by AMTs are deeply analysed and discussed. Collected evidence seems to confirm that AMTs may enable manufacturing reshoring decisions since their benefits are consistent with motivations ('why' perspective) inducing companies to repatriate production activity. At the same time, the two phenomena are diffused in the same industries ('who' perspective). In contrast, the effects in terms of governance modes (i.e., insourcing vs. outsourcing - the 'how' perspective) are still not completely clear.

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增材制造技术作为回流推动者:原因、地点和方法

本文旨在研究增材制造技术(AMTs)可能使制造业回流的假设，即较早离岸到国外的制造活动的遣返。由于本文具有探索性，因此采用了两步书桌研究策略。首先，根据“2W & 1H”(“谁”、“为什么”和“如何”)的观点，对有关两种被调查现象(amt和制造业回流)的现有文献进行比较。第二步，对11个由amt支持的生产活动搬迁案例进行了深入的分析和讨论。收集到的证据似乎证实，amt可能使制造业回流决策成为可能，因为它们的利益与促使企业回流生产活动的动机(“为什么”视角)是一致的。同时，这两种现象在同一行业中扩散(“谁”的视角)。相比之下，治理模式的影响(即，内包与外包——“如何”的视角)仍然不完全清楚。

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World Review of Intermodal Transportation Research Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development

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