ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a comprehensive project management approach for installing high-end additive manufacturing (AM) equipment. The core of the comprehensive model is the Triple C model of project management, which presents a systematic structure for communication, cooperation, and coordination across high-tech assets. Like all advanced manufacturing endeavors, the funding, purchase, installation, maintenance, utilization, and decommissioning of high-end AM equipment requires strategic implementation of project management techniques. Cooperation of the personnel involved in AM must be elicited using explicit means. After communication and cooperation functions have been initiated successfully, the efforts of the project personnel must be coordinated. The level of communication, cooperation, and coordination required for effective acquisition adoption of AM can be facilitated and enhanced by comprehensive project management practices from a system's perspective. The types of cooperation required for a successful product development include functional cooperation, social cooperation, legal cooperation, administrative cooperation, proximity cooperation, dependency cooperation, lateral cooperation, vertical cooperation, and imposed cooperation.
