Purpose

This paper aims to focus on developing a theoretical framework for the analysis of factors influencing additive manufacturing (AM) in the health-care domain.

Design/methodology/approach

A total of 18 factors are considered through extensive literature review and the relationship between each factor is studied using total interpretive structural modeling (TISM) and the model is logically developed. TISM model is developed using appropriate expert inputs. In addition, cross-impact matrix multiplication applied to classification (MICMAC) analysis is conducted to group the factors.

Findings

It was found that “ease of design” and “research and development” are the two most important factors with the highest driving power and dependencies. Through MICMAC analysis, the significance of factors is studied.

Practical implications

The study has been done based on inputs from academic experts and industry practitioners. The inferences from the study have practical relevance.

Originality/value

The development of a structural model for the analysis of factors influencing AM in the health-care domain is the original contribution of the authors.

中文翻译：

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基于 TISM 的医疗保健增材制造重要因素分析：案例研究

目的

本文旨在建立一个理论框架，用于分析影响医疗保健领域增材制造 (AM) 的因素。

设计/方法/方法

通过广泛的文献回顾，总共考虑了 18 个因素，并使用全解释结构模型 (TISM) 研究了每个因素之间的关系，并在逻辑上开发了模型。TISM 模型是使用适当的专家输入开发的。此外，进行了应用于分类（MICMAC）分析的交叉影响矩阵乘法以对因素进行分组。

发现

发现“易于设计”和“研发”是驱动力和依赖性最高的两个最重要的因素。通过MICMAC分析，研究了因素的重要性。

实际影响

该研究是根据学术专家和行业从业者的意见进行的。该研究的推论具有实际意义。

原创性/价值

开发用于分析影响医疗保健领域 AM 的因素的结构模型是作者的原创性贡献。