Title: Additive Manufacturing Change Management : Best Practices Author: , David M. Dietrich, Michael Kenworthy ISBN: 1138611751 / 9781138611757 Format: Soft Cover Pages: 162 Publisher: CRC Press Year: 2019 Availability: 2 to 3 weeks
Description
Contents
Additive Manufacturing (AM) has altered manufacturing as we know it, with shortened development time, increased performance, and reduced product costs. Executive management in industry are bombarded by marketing from their competitors showcasing design solutions leveraged through AM. Therefore, executive management ask their project management teams to figure out how to utilize AM within their own company. Clueless on how to approach the problem, managers start learning about AM from experts and become overwhelmed at the highly technical information. Unlike other AM books that focus on the technical output of AM technology, this new book focuses solely on the managerial implementation.
Features
Presents the impacts of AM technology
Provides engaging, practical, and entertaining "war stories" from the front line of AM industrialization
Describes in detail, the significant hurdles in AM certification and implementation
Offers templates of proven change management best practices, as practical solutions
Omits the technical verbiage that gets in the way of management understanding how the process is implemented
Preface
Section I : Additive Manufacturing Background and Potential
Chapter 1 : Additive Manufacturing Overview Chapter 2 : Additive Manufacturing Potential for Industry
Section II : Creating and Managing Additively Manufactured Change
Chapter 3 : The Impact of Disruptive Technology Chapter 4 : War Stories from the Front-Line of Industrializing AM – Five Case Studies
Section III : Additive Manufacturing Barriers
Chapter 5 : Certification Chapter 6 : Machine Cost of Ownership Chapter 7 : Make vs : Buy Chapter 8 : Skilled Workforce, or Lack Thereof Chapter 9 : Cultural Adoption of Change
Section IV : Applying Change Management Best Practices to AM
Chapter 10 : Establish a Sense of Urgency Chapter 11 : Creating a Guiding Coalition Chapter 12 : Develop a Vision and Strategy Chapter 13 : Communicate the Change Vision Chapter 14 : Empower Broad Based Action Chapter 15 : Generate Short-Term Wins Chapter 16 : Consolidate Gains and Promote more AM Adoption Chapter 17 : Anchor New Approaches in the Culture