Caterpillar 3D Printing Case Study (e-book)

Digital Business Case Studies and Solutions by Gregory John Lee and Vernon Timothy Thaver is a remarkable compendium of case studies in the domain of digital business and digitalization, as well as a varied collection of challenges to the readers and reflections by the authors on those challenges.

In this case, we discuss the applications of 3D printing at Caterpillar. The challenge presented here is on how the reader sees the Caterpillar 3D printing initiatives in terms of the Deloitte analysis grid by Crane et al. (2014) – this reflection is included in this document.

Main area: Technology in business (3D printing)
Other areas: Digitalizing operations

# of pages: 9 (Case 5 pages, Challenges & reflections 1 pages, rest of case is references & appendices)