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Development of Modular Architectures for Product–Service Systems
Citation Link: https://doi.org/10.15480/882.8722
Publikationstyp
Journal Article
Date Issued
2023-09-01
Sprache
English
TORE-DOI
Journal
Volume
15
Issue
18
Article Number
14001
Citation
Sustainability 15 (18): 14001 (2023)
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Scopus ID
Publisher
MDPI
Peer Reviewed
true
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.
Subjects
modularization
product architecture
Product–Service Systems
PSS
variety-induced complexity
DDC Class
670: Manufacturing
330: Economics
620: Engineering
More Funding Information
Publishing fees supported by the Funding Programme Open Access Publishing of Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH). This research is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research within the project MODERATED (contract number 02K20K502) belonging to the program “KMU-innovativ: Produktionsforschung”. The authors wish to thank all those involved in the empirical study for their contribution to this research.
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