Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 13, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su13116007
Keywords
additive manufacturing; circular economy; sustainable manufacturing; Industry 4; 0; 3D printing
Funding
- European Union
- Greek national funds through the Operational Program Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation (EPAnEK) [T1EDeltaK-05095]
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Additive Manufacturing is considered one of the most promising and disruptive technologies of the Industry 4.0 era, with the potential to transform traditional manufacturing paradigms and promote sustainable and circular business models. This paper aims to contribute to the scientific field at the intersection of AM and Circular Economy by classifying existing research, proposing typologies, and identifying research gaps and areas for future studies.
Additive Manufacturing (AM) is, undoubtedly, one of the most promising and potentially disruptive technologies of the Industry 4.0 era, able to transform the traditional manufacturing paradigm and fuel the generally accepted and necessary shift towards the conceptualisation, design and adoption of sustainable and circular business models. The objective of this paper is to contribute to the structure of the scientific field residing in the intersection of AM and Circular Economy (CE), by determining the status of its current state-of-the-art, proposing an initial typology in an attempt to contribute to the existing efforts of structuring this rather novice research area and pinpointing research gaps where more focus should be put, and highlighting areas with a significant potential for added-value future research. To that end, a sample of 206 papers, published from 2014 to 2020, was retrieved from the Scopus and Google Scholar databases. After studying and critically evaluating their content in full, contributions were classified into six thematic categories, providing a first typology of the current literature, followed by a detailed section highlighting and taxonomizing existing review studies. Next, contributions of the three categories of interest are discussed followed by a critical evaluation of the study's contribution, inherent limitations and future research potential.
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