Living Systematic Reviews for Rapidly Changing Additive-Manufacturing Evidence: Search, Updating and Version Governance

Fast-moving additive-manufacturing fields can outdate a static review before its engineering conclusions are acted upon. Living systematic reviews address this problem by maintaining an active surveillance and update process, but continuous searching does not imply continuous publication. This review adapts living-review principles to photopolymer engineering. It defines eligibility for living status, search cadence, update triggers, version governance, statistical cautions and stopping rules. The proposed model separates evidence surveillance from formal review release so that a corpus can remain current without generating unstable micro-versions. ER-395.