Professional Practice in IT: Annotated Bibliography, Semester 3

This annotated bibliography examines two research papers related to IT professional practice. The first paper by Attaran (2017) discusses the rise of 3D printing and its advantages over traditional manufacturing across various industries, emphasizing its impact, challenges, emerging technologies, and future opportunities. The second paper by Sun et al. (2015) focuses on the application of 3D printing technologies in food fabrication, highlighting the benefits of personalized design, customized food products, and its impact on the food industry supply chain. Both annotations include summaries, usefulness, limitations, and recommendations, providing a comprehensive analysis of the technologies and their implications in respective fields. The bibliography is a valuable resource for understanding the evolving landscape of IT and its practical applications.

Running head: PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE IN IT
Professional Practice in IT
Name of the Student
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Reference 1
Attaran, M. (2017). The rise of 3-D printing: The advantages of additive manufacturing over
traditional manufacturing. Business Horizons, 60(5), 677-688.
URL:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohsen_Attaran/publication/313904803_The_rise_of_3-
D_printingThe_advantages_of_additive_manufacturing_over_traditional_manufacturing/links/
5955368a0f7e9b591cd7391e/The-rise-of-3-D-printingThe-advantages-of-additive-
manufacturing-over-traditional-manufacturing.pdf
Annotation
The summary of the paper is that 3D printing technology has been used by various
industries and to facilitate the production of quantities in customized way. The impact and
challenges are discussed in the paper related to the technology that is driving every industries.
The author presentation in the paper shows that there are various benefits and challenges of 3D
printing technology that impacts every industry. The emerging technologies and trends of 3D
printing technologies presented by the author shows how the industries has evolved through the
use of 3D printing technologies. The future opportunities shows how the technology will further
impact the industries. The research has been conducted through analysis of 3D printing
technology in various industries such as retail industry, trends of the technology and obstacles.
The advantages of 3D printing technology over traditional manufacturing is also provided to
understand how the 3D printing technology provides better and improved benefits. The
usefulness are that it helps to understand the impact of 3D printing technology in various
industries. The other usefulness are challenges that require more attention while using in any

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industry. The limitations are that it shows the theoretical analysis and does not focus on how the
technology practically benefit the industries.
Recommendation
The recommendations are that it helps to understand how the technology will help to
improve the industry through customized products delivered. The benefits of the technology will
help to understand how the technology will help to cut longer times and meeting the demands of
customers in industries such as supply chain, retail and medical.
Reference 2
Sun, J., Zhou, W., Huang, D., Fuh, J. Y., & Hong, G. S. (2015). An overview of 3D printing
technologies for food fabrication. Food and bioprocess technology, 8(8), 1605-1615.
URL: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5af4/0273f1cccb6722438df03f57c1f456cf4233.pdf
Annotation
The summary of the paper is that how 3D printing technology has driven the food
manufacturing department where it has showed various benefits. The individuals need can be
met through this technology where it provides personalized design and fabrication. The author
credentials are that author is trying to analyze 3D technology in food industry in terms of
materials and recipes. The author has presented the advantages of 3D printing technology over
traditional way of food fabrication. The summary of key findings are that 3D printing
technologies is revolutionizing food industry by providing benefits such as designing and
fabrication of food products This is done to meet the customer’s need and provide printing
materials for food fabrication. The other findings are customized design for food and nutrition
control to facilitate the development of new food products and supply chain. The research has
been conducted through analysis of food industry and its working using 3D printing technology.

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The usefulness are that it helps to provide an analysis of supply chain which will help the case
study to improve its supply chain. The other usefulness is that it helps to identify the
technologies related to supply chain. The limitations are that it is focuses less on drawbacks of
3D printing technology in industries.
Recommendation
The recommendation are that the food industry has leveraged the advantages of 3D
printing technologies where 3D printing is integrated with customized color, shape, texture and
flavor. Hence they should focus more on integration of these aspects to improve the processing
of technologies.

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Bibliography
Attaran, M. (2017). The rise of 3-D printing: The advantages of additive manufacturing over
traditional manufacturing. Business Horizons, 60(5), 677-688.
Sun, J., Zhou, W., Huang, D., Fuh, J. Y., & Hong, G. S. (2015). An overview of 3D printing
technologies for food fabrication. Food and bioprocess technology, 8(8), 1605-1615.