PSS Layer Method – Application to Microenergy Systems

Müller, Patrick; Kebir, Noara; Stark, Rainer; Blessing, Luciënne

doi:10.1007/978-1-84882-909-1_1

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“…In order to support an integrated planning and development of products and services Mü ller and Stark defined a generic development process model for IPS 2 [82]. Characteristic for the new model (Fig.…”

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“…Both phases are iterative and have high IPS 2 relevance. The upper levels ''customer/ market/environment'' and ''value'' address customer needs and customer values, which are essential PSS and IPS 2 design dimensions [82]. Additionally, the model highlights the simultaneous activities (i) brief conceptualization, architecture and business model design, (ii) specification on system level, and (iii) development project definition, which together lead to the offering of a provider towards a customer.…”

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Industrial Product-Service Systems—IPS 2

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Section: Modeling Methodsmentioning

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Industrial Product-Service Systems—IPS 2

2010

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“…Sakao et al, 2009;van Halen et al, 2005;Vezzoli et al, 2014), methods and tools (e.g. Bertoni et al, 2013;Müller et al, 2009;Sakao and Lindahl, 2012) have been published in the past decade to support practitioners throughout the PSS design process. Further, a review has been published comparing and discussing eight di erent PSS design methodologies (Vasantha et al, 2012).…”

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What’s in it for the Provider? : A Lifecycle-Focused Approach towards Designing for Value in Product-Service Systems

Matschewsky¹

2016

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As the value for customers of Product-Service Systems is increasingly understood, this thesis examines the question: What's in it for the Provider? Combining products and services into Product-Service Systems (PSS), which are o en owned and even operated by the company o ering them, is seen as an important element of conducting more sustainable business. e prospective environmental bene ts of PSS lie mainly in the improved resource-and operational e ciency. is is achieved by way of a critical shi in incentive structure: If an industrial company assumes responsibility for an o ering throughout the lifecycle, the terms on which that company operates in general are changed notably in comparison to traditional product sales. Instead of bene ting from a short lifetime through additional sales opportunities or making pro t through the sale of spare parts, in highly integrated PSS, each parts exchange, each technicians' visit and each day the lifetime of the o ering is reduced directly a ects the bottom line of the provider. Due to that, solely as a result of economic rationality, a provider of these o erings has an incentive to design in such a way that the life of this o ering is prolonged, need for spare parts is reduced, service activities are facilitated and simpli ed, and that the conditions are in place to allow for a second or third life of the o ering through remanufacturing. Regardless of this compelling logic, industrial companies at times fail to establish the preconditions to capturing these bene ts as they continue to rely on product and sales-centric design processes even though they provide PSS.is thesis examines this unexploited opportunity from two vantage points. On the one hand, methods conceived in academia to support industry in implementing and executing joint, lifecycle-focused design of products and services, and the use of these methods in practice, are examined. Here, the focus rstly lies on understanding how PSS are designed today, and secondly, on what should change about PSS design methods to improve their implementability and usability in industrial practice, so that they can ful ll their supposed role as facilitators of e cient PSS design and operation. On the other hand, the possible bene ts of providing speci cally designed and lifecycle-focused PSS as an industrial company are in focus. To this end, the value attained by providers throughout the use phase of PSS is investigated, to then identify possible approaches towards enhancing this value. Eventually, both focus-areas are joined in an e ort to examine the interaction between method-supported, lifecycle-oriented PSS design and the value attained by providers of such o erings.As a result of the research, a lacking adaptation of design processes to PSS is identi ed in the case companies. Further, shortcomings of PSS design methods conceived in academia, e.g. excessive complexity, lacking clarity and rigidity, are found in both literature as well as in a study with an industrial company. To take a rst step towards rectifying ...

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“…The third category includes Offering Diagram (van Halen et al, 2005), Functional Block Diagram (Maussang et al, 2009), Technology Road Mapping , the PSS Layer Method (Müller et al, 2009) and the PSS Board (Lim et al 2012). …”

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Value visualization in Product Service Systems preliminary design

Bertoni

Isaksson

2013

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Emerging from a study in the European aerospace industry, this paper identifies a gap in the way value-related information is communicated to designers of hardware in the preliminary stages of Product Service System (PSS) design. To fit this gap a Lifecycle Value Representation Approach, named LiVReA, that uses color-coded 3D CAD models to enable value information to be translated into visual features, is presented. Such approach aims at enhancing designers' awareness of the value contribution of an early design concept on the overall PSS offer by complementing requirements-based information with criteria reflecting the fulfillment of customers and system value. The paper details the development of the approach, its underlying rationale, the results of preliminary validation activities and the potential for industrial application in the light of the currently available PSS representation tools.

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PSS Layer Method – Application to Microenergy Systems

Cited by 47 publications

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Industrial Product-Service Systems—IPS 2

Industrial Product-Service Systems—IPS 2

What’s in it for the Provider? : A Lifecycle-Focused Approach towards Designing for Value in Product-Service Systems

Value visualization in Product Service Systems preliminary design

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