scholarly journals DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION FOR SPECIFICATION DESIGN OF PRODUCTS IN PRODUCT-SERVICE SYSTEMS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 255-264
Author(s):  
D. Kloock-Schreiber ◽  
R. Siqueira ◽  
P. C. Gembarski ◽  
R. Lachmayer
Keyword(s):  
Discrete Event Simulation ◽  
Discrete Event ◽  
Service Systems ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Event Simulation ◽  
Product Service ◽  
Hybrid Solutions ◽  
Product Specifications ◽  
Product Service Systems

AbstractBoundaries between products and services vanish and companies increasingly offer hybrid solutions known as Product Service Systems (PSS). Thereby, a holistic view that includes both the product and service parts must be taken. This paper presents a discrete-event simulation of a PSS as a method for the specification of the product part. Besides product and service, the application scenario and the decision-making are also modeled. Based on the results for a case study, the customer requirements could be guaranteed as the essential product specifications were optimized to minimize total costs.

scholarly journals Product-Service Systems and Sustainability: Analysing the Environmental Impacts of Rental Clothing

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2118
Author(s):  
Emma Johnson ◽  
Andrius Plepys
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Service Systems ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Fast Fashion ◽  
Product Service ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Environmental Savings ◽  
Product Service Systems

Business models like product-service systems (PSSs) often recognise different sustainability goals and are seen as solutions for the impacts of consumption and fast fashion, but there is a lack of evidence supporting the environmental claims of such business models for clothing. The research aimed to understand if rental clothing business models such as PSSs have the environmental benefits often purported by quantifying the environmental impacts of rental formal dresses in a life-cycle assessment (LCA) in a case study in Stockholm, Sweden. The effects of varying consumer behaviour on the potential impact of a PSS vs. linear business model are explored through three functional units and 14 consumption scenarios. How users decide to engage with clothing PSSs dictates the environmental savings potential that a PSS can have, as shown in how many times consumers wear garments, how they use rental to substitute their purchasing or use needs, as well as how consumers travel to rental store locations.

A synthetical development approach for rehabilitation assistive smart product–service systems: A case study

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 101310
Author(s):  
Guo Jia ◽  
Guiyi Zhang ◽  
Xin Yuan ◽  
Xiaosong Gu ◽  
Heshan Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Service Systems ◽  
Product Service ◽  
Smart Product ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
Product Service Systems

Applying Discrete Event Simulation (DES) in Healthcare

2015 ◽  
pp. 390-410
Author(s):  
Stavros T. Ponis ◽  
Angelos Delis ◽  
Sotiris P. Gayialis ◽  
Panagiotis Kasimatis ◽  
Joseph Tan
Keyword(s):  
Discrete Event Simulation ◽  
Capacity Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Discrete Event ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Performance Improvements ◽  
Event Simulation ◽  
Health Insurance Provider ◽  
And Performance

This paper highlights the opportunities and challenges of applying Discrete Event Simulation (DES) to support capacity planning of a network of outpatient facilities. Despite an abundance of studies using simulation techniques to examine the operation and performance of outpatient clinics, the problem of capacity allocation and planning of medical services within a network of outpatient healthcare facilities appears to be underexplored. Here, a case study of a health insurance provider that operates a network of six outpatient medical facilities in the US is used to illustrate and explore the synthesizing and adaptive, yet parsimonious nature of using DES methodology for network design and capacity planning. Results of this case study demonstrate that significant performance improvements for the network operator can be achieved with applying DES method to support the network facility capacity planning process.

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