Integration of a service CAD and a life cycle simulator

Komoto, Hitoshi; Tomiyama, Tetsuo

doi:10.1016/j.cirp.2008.03.001

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“…The findings of Clayton et al suggest that PSS design is not complete, since the project initiation phase lacks adequate inputs and the evaluation phase lacks both inputs and outputs. Some tools for analysis of PSSs are Service CAD by Komoto and Tomiyama (2008) and Service Explorer by Sakao and Shimomura (2007). Moreover, Erkonyucu et al (2010) and Erkoyuncu et al (2013) have looked at uncertainty while designing PSSs, which can be considered a form of analysis.…”

Section: Product/service System (Pss) Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Early stages of designing resource-efficient offerings : An initial view of their analysis and evaluation

Brambila‐Macias

2018

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Licentiate Thesis

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The increasing use of natural resources and the pollution it causes calls for new ways of addressing customer needs. Additionally, a more uncertain and complex world also presents new challenges. In this thesis, these new challenges are tackled through inter and transdisciplinary research, which require more interaction across disciplines to tackle complex phenomena.The manner in which companies address customer needs starts from the designing (a multiplestakeholder perspective) of offerings where companies rely on different types of support (guidelines, standards, methods and tools). In this thesis, these offerings, include products, services, systems, and solutions. This plays an important role in the use of natural resources and its impact on the environment. In this Licentiate, I present results to show initial cues on how to design resource-efficient offerings, and more specifically their analysis and evaluation in the early stages of the design process. This type of offerings is suggested to be crucial for the circular economy, which can be understood as a paradigm shift towards sustainability. In this paradigm shift, designing is carried out by taking into account reuse, remanufacture and recycling of products as strategies by multiple stakeholders and companies. Other strategies include providing services, a function or a solution through dematerialization and transmaterialization.The methods used in this research are narrative and systematic literature reviews, thematic analysis and a case study. The results show a lack of interdisciplinary research in the academic literature in subjects relevant to the design of resource-efficient offerings. The results also show a need to clarify what transdisciplinary research entails. Moreover, current practice shows that support used by companies needs to consider several factors for it to be useful, for example, the vision of the company, participation of potential users of the support and everyday operations, among other characteristics. Finally, more practical support coming from academia is necessary to improve its use in industry.

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Section: Product/service System (Pss) Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Early stages of designing resource-efficient offerings : An initial view of their analysis and evaluation

Brambila‐Macias

2018

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Licentiate Thesis

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“…In this paper, four state-of-the-art methodologies which have been proposed for PSS design are reviewed: Komoto and Tomiyama [4,5] proposed a method to design and analyze business models of manufacturers by focusing on the variations of services in product life cycles (e.g. rental, sharing, maintenance and upgrade services, and pay-per-function sales).…”

Section: Related Pss Design Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To help PSS designers' model and simulate PSS designs, a framework has been implemented in a software environment. Service CAD integrated with a life cycle simulator (ISCL) [4] has been chosen because it provides both modelling and simulation facilities. A simulation facility is used to quantitatively evaluate the performance of the PSS designs regarding the requirements.…”

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confidence: 99%

A manufacturing framework for capability-based product-service systems design

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Manufacturers aim to design product-service systems (PSS) which integrate services with products to attain sustained competitive advantage from a life cycle perspective. PSS design should be customer-adjusted solutions which are aligned to integrated stakeholders' capabilities, a subject which the extant literature has not sufficiently addressed. This paper proposes a systematic framework for the PSS solution provider to address this aim and operationalizes this through software developed for PSS design which models stakeholders' individual activities and simulates their occurrences depending on their relations. The framework stresses that integrated stakeholders' capabilities define continuing ability to generate a desired operational outcome for the customers. The paper reports a PSS design case for a laser system manufacturer and then applies the framework to it. The industrial experts' views on this framework reveal that it helps to develop PSS design from a holistic systems approach which facilitates a change in the designer's mindset from product-centric to systems-centric. The level of trust and transparency required for this framework is argued to be absent in most industrial sectors, being one of the foremost limitations for implementation of PSS

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“…Many of them (e.g., [18][19][20]) have been developed for PSS based on theories and methodologies for conventional product design (e.g., [21]) and extended through logical reasoning of what extension and modification is needed for integrating services with products. These methods, however, have the risk of mismatching how PSS design is actually conducted.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%