“Upgradable PSS”: Clarifying a new concept of sustainable consumption/production based on upgradablility

Pialot, Olivier; Millet, Dominique; Bisiaux, Justine

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.08.161

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“…When the products offered become smart [52,54], companies may "replace" only digital elements, such as the product firmware or software, thus enhancing the feasibility of upgrading (Table 2, #7) in a remote way [51]. Upgrading generally allows a reduction of the product consumables (e.g., energy) during the usage phase, thus increasing resource efficiency.…”

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“…Again, the product should be easy to maintain when a maintenance contract is signed, or for the parts to be easily reused when a take-back agreement is made [18]. Because the company retains the product ownership, and users can change during the product lifetime, the product should allow upgrades, thus achieving a longer lifetime [51]. In this BM type, advanced services, such as remote monitoring and diagnosis, advanced training, consultancy on product-enabled processes, as well as predictive maintenance are crucial [18].…”

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“…When products become smart, companies may upgrade only their digital components, such as the product firmware, thus enhancing product upgradability [52]. Product upgradability may in turn contrast product obsolescence and its resulting material waste, thus enhancing the transition to CE [51]. In their study, Cheng, Barton, and Prabhu [57] have pointed out the crucial role of sensors like radio frequency identification (RFID) in tracing spare parts.…”

Section: The Role Of the Internet Of Things Big Data And Analytics mentioning

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Exploring How Usage-Focused Business Models Enable Circular Economy through Digital Technologies

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Recent studies advocate that digital technologies are key enabling factors for the introduction of servitized business models. At the same time, these technologies support the implementation of the circular economy (CE) paradigm into businesses. Despite this general agreement, the literature still overlooks how digital technologies enable such a CE transition. To fill the gap, this paper develops a conceptual framework, based on the literature and a case study of a company implementing a usage-focused servitized business model in the household appliance industry. This study focuses on the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, and analytics, and identifies eight specific functionalities enabled by such technologies (improving product design, attracting target customers, monitoring and tracking product activity, providing technical support, providing preventive and predictive maintenance, optimizing the product usage, upgrading the product, enhancing renovation and end-of-life activities). By investigating how these functionalities affect three CE value drivers (increasing resource efficiency, extending lifespan, and closing the loop), the conceptual framework developed in this paper advances knowledge about the role of digital technologies as an enabler of the CE within usage-focused business models. Finally, this study shows how digital technologies help overcome the drawback of usage-focused business models for the adoption of CE pointed out by previous literature.

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“…Studies on the macro-level of cities [44][45][46], economic areas [47,48], and national and global industries, particularly logistics and waste [7,14,[49][50][51][52], were only included if they informed implementation on the meso-level, as per the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Other implementation studies focus on reviewing and informing policy [13,16,17,[53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67], specifically on product design for the CE [8,9,14,[64][65][66] as well as assessments of firms' [67,68], consumers' [69][70][71], and officials' [72] awareness of and attitudes towards the CE's concepts and its components. Two contributions are concerned with business model research [73,74].…”

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“…While designing products to be upgraded, repaired, refurbished, and remanufactured to counter obsolescence and degradation of physical product artefacts are a critical component of the CE and tie into closed-loop SCs [2,20,32,36,37,66], this remains difficult and will require a comprehensive design paradigm shift [8,9,64,65]. A variety of concepts are proposed here: biomimicry [64], green design [36], eco-design [20,65] and cradle-to-cradle design [2,14,32,79].…”

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Supply Chain Configurations in the Circular Economy: A Systematic Literature Review

2017

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Abstract:As the circular economy (CE) gains traction in literature and practice, several academic communities are opening up spaces that move away from the CE as a pure engineering concept. This systematic literature review (n = 77) analyses and discusses the fragmented body of knowledge on the meso-level of supply chains (SCs): (a) to find common ground that underpins the current implementation of the CE on this level; and (b) to identify drivers, inhibitors, and enablers from which CE SC configurations emerge. The review finds that there remain differences in CE definitions that result from claimed antecedents and scopes, resulting in distinct research streams. On the meso-level, eco-industrial parks, environmental SCs, and closed-loop SCs each face significant challenges. The latter potentially offers the largest environmental benefits but engenders radical changes for business models and exposes SCs to more risk. We firstly argue for moving away from using a prescriptive set of practices as definitions for the CE towards a set of overarching goals to allow for the inclusion of future practices and techniques. Secondly, we highlight that research going beyond the meso-level to consider the wider social and institutional environment is needed to solve current challenges.

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Designing business models in circular economy: A systematic literature review and research agenda

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The concept of circular economy is increasingly receiving attention in different domains, including strategic management, operations management, and technology management. It requires companies to design their business model (i.e., the value network, the relationships with the supply chain partners, and the value propositions towards customers) around a new concept of sustainable development that reduces consumption of natural resources and preserves the environment. However, extant research falls short in terms of explaining how companies design their business model according to the circular economy principles. Starting from this premise, the present paper provides a systematic review of the literature on the design of business models in the context of circular economy, aiming to offer an overview of the state of research and outline a promising research agenda.

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“Upgradable PSS”: Clarifying a new concept of sustainable consumption/production based on upgradablility

Cited by 95 publications

References 12 publications

Exploring How Usage-Focused Business Models Enable Circular Economy through Digital Technologies

Exploring How Usage-Focused Business Models Enable Circular Economy through Digital Technologies

Supply Chain Configurations in the Circular Economy: A Systematic Literature Review

Designing business models in circular economy: A systematic literature review and research agenda

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