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Additive Manufacturing Change Management : Best Practices

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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

Index

 
 
 
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