Flexibility Strategies for 3DP

3D printing technologies are often lauded for being flexible, but there is little consensus or detail in the literature as to what this means in practice. This chapter provides a detailed examination of the flexibility concept for 3D printing, and explores how flexibility can be strategically deployed to tackle a range of operations challenges.

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