scholarly journals The Model-Driven Decision Arena: Augmented Decision-Making for Product-Service Systems Design

Systems ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Wall ◽  
Marco Bertoni ◽  
Tobias Larsson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Service Systems ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Product Service ◽  
Engineering Team ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Product Service Systems

The shift towards Product-Service Systems (PSS) stresses the need to embed new and unique capabilities in Decision Support Systems, with the aim of helping the engineering team in handling the pool of information and knowledge available during decision events. Emerging from a multiple case study in the Swedish manufacturing industry, this paper describes the development of the Model-Driven Decision Arena (MDDA), an environment for collaborative decision-making that focuses on the early design phases of PSS. Based on the findings from multiple case studies, this paper illustrates the main goals of the MDDA, detailing its main functions, its physical environment, and its software architecture and models. This paper demonstrates the use of the MDDA in a case study related to the development of an asphalt compactor, presenting and discussing the results of verification activities conducted with industrial practitioners on the current MDDA prototype.

Combining Product Innovation With Service Innovation to Increase Value Created With a System

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuomas Ritola ◽  
Eric Coatanéa
Keyword(s):  
Service System ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Service Systems ◽  
Dynamics Simulation ◽  
Business Network ◽  
Product Service System ◽  
Product Service ◽  
Product Service Systems

The focus in the businesses of manufacturing and selling technological devices has been increasingly shifting from USA and Europe towards Asiatic countries due to cost-effectiveness and lower costs of resources. In the areas where costs are inevitably higher, new measures have to be considered in order to be able to compete in the global economy. In this article, we study how can we utilize combined benefits of technological and service innovations in competing against the traditional product-oriented offerings. Product-service systems are integrated systems of products and services that create value through use for customers; the hypothesis in this article is that the efficiency of the business network can be increased by designing an integrated product-service system in comparison to the product-oriented approach. The hypothesis is studied via a real-life product-service system design case study of an automated recycling system, and system dynamics simulation is used to analyze the value created with the system in the related business network. In theory, product-service systems have many potential benefits in comparison to product-oriented offerings; identifying the benefits in practice in a case study increases the understanding of product-service systems design and facilitate their application in the industry.

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

Value-Driven Modeling of Tactical and Operational Decisions in Support of Aerospace Product-Service Systems Design

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cassio D. Goncalves ◽  
Michael Kokkolaras
Keyword(s):  
Quality Function Deployment ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Service Systems ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Operational Decisions ◽  
Design Engineers ◽  
Design Variables ◽  
Product Service ◽  
Product Service Systems

Competitive markets and complex business-to-business environments compel manufacturers to provide innovative service offerings along with their products. This necessitates effective methodologires for developing and implementing sucessful new business strategies. This article presents an approach to model tactical and operational decisions to support the design and development of Product-Service Systems (PSSs). A combination of Quality Function Deployment and Design-to-Cost techniques is proposed as the first step of a PSS design framework that aids design engineers to determine the relations among value to customer, functional requirements, design variables and cost. The objective is to identify PSS design alternatives that deliver value to customer while respecting cost targets. An aerospace software case study is conducted to demonstrate the proposed approach.

scholarly journals Circular Innovation Framework: Verifying Conceptual to Practical Decisions in Sustainability-Oriented Product-Service System Cases

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 3248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Guzzo ◽  
Adriana Hofmann Trevisan ◽  
Marcia Echeveste ◽  
Janaina Mascarenhas Hornos Costa
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Service System ◽  
Service Systems ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Coding System ◽  
Product Service System ◽  
Product Service ◽  
Tactical Decisions ◽  
Product Service Systems

Product–service systems (PSSs) have significant sustainability potential. However, limited knowledge is available on the choices to develop circular PSS solutions. The goal of this paper is to provide a circular innovation framework containing circular strategies to facilitate the decision-making in PSS circular innovation. A systematic literature review in combination with content analysis underpinned this research. The strategies were investigated in 45 PSS cases from the literature. A coding system was designed and employed to identify and organize the circular strategies and practices. The statistics techniques employed were frequency and co-occurrence analysis, which aimed to describe the synergies among strategies. The framework proposed contains twenty-one circular strategies. The practical perspective comprises the seventy-seven practices used for the operationalization of strategies. The framework can assist organizations in making strategic to tactical decisions when developing circular PSS solutions. The paper provides a panorama of the strategy applications among the PSS types. Finally, the research approach can be employed to continuously develop an understanding of the application of circular strategies in PSS and other fields.

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