Modular design of technical product-service systems

A methodology for module portfolio planning within the service solution layer of a product–service system

“…In recent years, with increasingly customer's demands for personalized products and services, physical products and services needed to be provided with more and more individuation and variability, mainly reflected in the individuation of physical productsindividuation, the individuation of service content and the variability of service selection and use (Jiao et al, 2003;Sundin et al, 2007).With the emergence of PSS strategy, the individuationand variability of products and servicesin PSS will inevitably lead to the increase of costin enterprise's management, design, manufacturing and supply chain (Sundin et al, 2007), the traditional modular design methodology needs to be extended into the PSS field (Aurich et al, 2006).…”

“…Aurich first proposed a modular design framework, principles and configuration designmethods of PSS system;establisheda set of modular realization principle for technical PSS, and proposed a process library to design and manufacture of technical PSS, also to select and combine process modules (Aurich et al, 2006;Aurich et al, 2007;Aurich et al, 2009). The key to solving the conflict between the personalization and low cost is to achieve the physical product and service modularity oriented to customer, product and service modularity strategy can be applied to reduce the complexity of product engineering (Welp et al, 2008).Hara analyzed and modeled eight well-known types of PSS from three viewpoints: the state of receivers, functions, and attributes of entities, which contributed to configuring modules of product-service combination toward a design of new PSS (Hara and Arai,2010).Wang did research on the parallel PSS modular development and understanding the relationship between physical products and services.…”

“…As customer's individual needs of PSS intensifies, the costs of providing PSSincreaserapidly. However,the key to solving the conflict between personalization and low cost is to fulfill the modular design for physical product and service aiming to customer needs.By establishing a series of standard physical product and service modules can make internal modules less diversified, which also can reduce production costs and reduce environmental influences (Ulrich, 1991).In order to enhance the potential after the integrationof physical product and service, Aurich first proposed a modular design framework for PSS, and established modular principles for technical PSS (Aurich et al, 2006;Aurich et al, 2007;Aurich et al, 2009). Then, Li presented a modular generalized product and service system with four levels, were namely customer requirement layer, service solution decision layer, parts layer, and instance implementation layer (Li, 2013).The customer requirement layer mainly obtainsinformation on user needs, and classifies the needs into functional service needsand non-functional service needs.…”

Establishing production service system and information collaboration platform for mold and die products

“…Morelli [24] create a new pattern/methodology to develop PSS. Aurich et al [1,2] integrate the concepts of PLM and PSS (PSS-PLM) and propose a framework of PSS-PLM. Inside this framework, lifecycle activities can be systematically considered in an integrative manner.…”

“…For example, Meier and Krug [19] and Aurich et al [1,2] put forward the concept of iPSS-PSS for industrial products. This emerges as a new turning point for further academic research and industrial applications.…”