Repair activities could benefit from Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology as a result of the politically planned, continuous implementation of circular economy into European industry. AM provides novel opportunities with regard to design-optimized, tailored, and demand-specific, small batch size production. Thus, an exploration of industry perspectives for AM repair technology is needed to provide guidance and understanding of current opportunities and barriers of this promising technology in distinctive industries. A number of questions arise from the initial literature and background analysis: What minimum set of opportunities and barriers does exist for AM repair technology? What indicators could be used by companies to evaluate their ...