Dr Gokula Vasantha G.Vasantha@napier.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Dr Gokula Vasantha G.Vasantha@napier.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Hitoshi Komoto
Romana Hussain
Rajkumar Roy
Tetsuo Tomiyama
Steve Evans
Ashutosh Tiwari
Stewart Williams
Manufacturers aim to design product-service systems (PSS) which integrate services with products to attain sustained competitive advantage from a life cycle perspective. PSS design should be customer-adjusted solutions which are aligned to integrated stakeholders' capabilities, a subject which the extant literature has not sufficiently addressed. This paper proposes a systematic framework for the PSS solution provider to address this aim and operationalizes this through software developed for PSS design which models stakeholders' individual activities and simulates their occurrences depending on their relations. The framework stresses that integrated stakeholders' capabilities define continuing ability to generate a desired operational outcome for the customers. The paper reports a PSS design case for a laser system manufacturer and then applies the framework to it. The industrial experts' views on this framework reveal that it helps to develop PSS design from a holistic systems approach which facilitates a change in the designer's mindset from product-centric to systems-centric. The level of trust and transparency required for this framework is argued to be absent in most industrial sectors, being one of the foremost limitations for implementation of PSS.
Gokula Vijaykumar, A. V., Komoto, H., Hussain, R., Roy, R., Tomiyama, T., Evans, S., Tiwari, A., & Williams, S. (2013). A manufacturing framework for capability-based product-service systems design. Journal of Remanufacturing, 3(1), 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1186/2210-4690-3-8
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Aug 13, 2013 |
Online Publication Date | Aug 23, 2013 |
Publication Date | 2013-12 |
Deposit Date | Feb 15, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Feb 18, 2019 |
Journal | Journal of Remanufacturing |
Publisher | Springer |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 3 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 1-32 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1186/2210-4690-3-8 |
Keywords | Product-service system, design, framework, simulation, representation |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1393520 |
Contract Date | Feb 18, 2019 |
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This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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