The Philosopher's Stone for Sustainability

Abstract

Since the 1980's, additive manufacturing (AM) has gradually advanced from rapid prototyping applications towards fabricating endconsumer products. Many small companies may prefer accessing AM technologies through service providers offering production services as result-oriented Industrial Product-Service System (IPSS) rather than investing in their own production line. This study investigated potential benefits of IPSS using system dynamics modeling to study resource demands between two situations: one where an IPSS approach is used and one that is the traditional ownership of production equipment. This study concluded that AM service providers with demand-varying customers could increase service performance and maximize use of production equipment.

Specification Technique for Augmented Reality Based Product Service Systems

“…Besides improving performance across the internal value chain, the capabilities of AR can significantly stimulate innovation for the product service business (Porcelli et al, 2013;Porter and Heppelmann, 2017). The integration of AR functionalities in product service systems leads to so-called AR-based product service systems which are the subject of this paper and which we define as follows:…”

Assessing transformational change from institutionalising digital capabilities on implementation and development of Product-Service Systems: Learnings from the maritime industry

“…The long life cycle of the ships, the capital-intensity of the industry, combined with the relative immaturity of PSS offerings Andersen, McAloone, and Garcia I Mateu 2013;Hameri and Paatela 2005) present opportunities for both suppliers and customers to explore and eventually implement servitized business models. PSS as a value proposition in the maritime industry has been the focus of previous research endeavours, most notably PROTEUS (Mougaard et al 2013). Shipowners are central actors in the maritime industry, with high degree of involvement throughout the whole lifecycle of the ship, from procurement and production to operation and recycling .…”

“…To address this knowledge gap, this study is conducted within the context of the maritime industry. The maritime industry, due to the long life time of the ships and the existence of multiple noncritical systems presents attractive opportunities for PSS (Aston Centre for Servitization Research and Practice 2013; Mougaard et al 2013;Andersen, McAloone, and Garcia I Mateu 2013). Building on this opportunity, this study poses the following research question and proposition:…”