Tools for the Variety-Oriented Product-Service System Design

Rennpferdt, Christoph; Kuhl, Juliane; Krause, Dieter

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-90700-6_91

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“…An industrial context was used to apply certain parts of the method iteratively and to discuss it with experts during development. The initial description of the approach was published as a framework in [33], with further refinements of the individual steps after that (see [38][39][40]). To describe the method in Section 4, a summary and enhancement of previous publications' content is used.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development of Modular Architectures for Product–Service Systems

Rennpferdt,

Zuefle,

Bagusat

et al. 2023

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Driven by servitization, an increasing number of manufacturing companies are transforming from being a pure product provider to a provider of Product–Service Systems (PSS). PSS offer unique benefits to both providers and customers by combining physical products and intangible services. However, this results in an increase in variety for the provider, which causes an increase in variety-induced complexity and, finally, also in costs. This correlation is proven based on the literature; possible approaches to manage the complexity are presented and the current research gap is addressed. To address the gap, a method for the development of modular architectures for PSS is presented in this paper. The method comprises five phases and supports companies from identifying PSS-based business models up to modularizing product components and service components. To validate this method, it is first applied to the example of a product family of pressure-reducing valves and then its results are discussed afterwards. It is proven that this method is suitable for the development of modular PSS architectures, but there is also a need for further research, which is described in the Conclusions section.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development of Modular Architectures for Product–Service Systems

Rennpferdt,

Zuefle,

Bagusat

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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“…With the increase in product and service components and their dependencies, the management of this complexity becomes a major task for companies. An analysis of different publications related to complexity in PSS design showed, that the main complexity driver in the context of PSS is an increasing variety (Rennpferdt et al, 2022). To deal with this increasing variety-induced complexity, the literature proposes the modularisation of the PSS (Rennpferdt and Krause, 2020;.…”

Section: Product-service Systems and Business Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To achieve this, the customer-relevant properties are linked with the variant resources and variant components. The connection is created via different levels and visualised in the Variety Allocation Model for PSS families (VAM) (Rennpferdt et al, 2022). This method step is an adaption of the Design for Variety method according to Blees et al (2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Figure 5 shows an excerpt of the VAM for the initial situation. It is evident that almost all components are variant and the customer-relevant properties influence multiple components, which significantly increases the variety (Rennpferdt et al, 2022). For instance, the customer-relevant product properties Precision and Processing speed are relevant for all use cases, welding, etc.…”

Section: Variety-oriented Design Of the Laser Processing Machinesmentioning

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Designing PSS Fleets – Consideration of the Product Architecture

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By transforming from a manufacturer into a PSS provider, the business model of a company changes. In particular with service-oriented business models, the importance of tangible products alters. Instead of selling products, PSS providers need product fleets that enable the provision of services. If the manufacturer of the product and the provider of the PSS fleet are identical, the products can be designed specifically for the PSS. This paper introduces a framework that supports the design of modular PSS fleets so that the product architecture is optimised for the requirements of the fleet.

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“…Another frequently mentioned disadvantage of PSS is the increasing complexity for the company caused by the growing system (Rennpferdt and Krause, 2020). Besides the increasing number of product and service components, the increasing effort for data and knowledge management is also a complexity driver (Tukker, 2004;Zou et al, 2018;Rennpferdt et al, 2022).…”

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Digital Twins and Product-Service Systems: A Synergy with Challenges and Opportunities

2022

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Digital Twins and Product-Service Systems are just two of the recent trends in product development. While many presented approaches seem promising, their implementation often face challenges. This is especially true if existing approaches are transferred onto new applications. Diving into these topics this paper presents the basics but also challenges as well as synergies emerging between them. The objective is set, to move from specialised applications to broader approaches that can provide benefit to a range of applications and ease the entrance, particularly, for smaller enterprises.

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Tools for the Variety-Oriented Product-Service System Design

Cited by 3 publications

References 25 publications

Development of Modular Architectures for Product–Service Systems

Development of Modular Architectures for Product–Service Systems

Designing PSS Fleets – Consideration of the Product Architecture

Digital Twins and Product-Service Systems: A Synergy with Challenges and Opportunities

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