Product-Service Systems Development for Sustainability. A New Understanding

Abstract.This chapter introduces the concept of Sustainable Product-Service System (S.PSS). S.PSS is an offer model providing an integrated mix of products and services that are together able to fulfil a particular customer/user demand (to deliver a “unit of satisfaction”), based on innovative interactions between the stakeholders of the value production system (satisfaction system), where the ownership of the product/s and/or the life cycle services costs/responsibilities remain with the provider/s, so that the same provider/s continuously seek/s environmentally and/or socio-ethically beneficial new solutions, with economic benefits. Next it discusses the potentional environmental, socio-ethical and economical benefits of S.PSS.

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Life Cycle Simulation for Sustainable Product Service Systems

Handbook of Sustainable Engineering ◽

10.1007/978-1-4020-8939-8_75 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 633-652 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Hitoshi Komoto ◽

Nozomu Mishima

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle ◽

Service Systems ◽

Cycle Simulation ◽

Product Service ◽

Sustainable Product ◽

Product Service Systems

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IMPLEMENTATION OF MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES IN THE LIFE CYCLE COSTING OF PRODUCT-SERVICE SYSTEMS

Proceedings of the Design Society ◽

10.1017/pds.2021.444 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 1827-1836

Author(s):

Jannik Alexander Schneider ◽

Johanna Wurst ◽

Ines Gruetzmann ◽

Iryna Mozgova ◽

Roland Lachmayer

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle ◽

Service System ◽

Life Cycle Costing ◽

Service Systems ◽

Product Service System ◽

Component Design ◽

Product Service ◽

The Individual ◽

The Cost ◽

Product Service Systems

AbstractEstimating the costs of products during development to design a cost efficent product is a well established process. But in the case of Product-Service Systems estimating the costs of the individual product is not sufficent. Instead it is necessary to calculate the cost incured over the entire life cycle of the product. Because with Product-Service Systems the majority of costs is not incurred during manufacturing of the product but instead during the operation. One of the major cost components accruing during the operation of the product are the maintennace costs. Therefore, current life cycle costing models show the impoact of component design on the maintennace cost of the Product-Service System. But they do not show how different maintennace strategies that can have an impact on the overall life cycle costs of the Product-Service System. Thus, this paper shows a method for the implementation of different maintennace strategies into life cycle costing and applies it in an industrial use case.

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Sustainable Product-Service Systems and Circular Economies

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11195383 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (19) ◽

pp. 5383 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Ricardo J Hernandez

Keyword(s):

Business Models ◽

Building Blocks ◽

Good Alternative ◽

Economic Benefits ◽

Service Systems ◽

Sustainable Products ◽

Product Service ◽

Sustainable Product ◽

External Forces ◽

Product Service Systems

Sustainable product-service systems (PSSs) have proven to be a very good alternative for developing new business models and transforming traditional offers into sustainable ones. Environmental, social and economic benefits support the idea of developing this type of system. However, there are identified challenges that have stopped the expansion of the concept into the market. The framework that explains the principles and building blocks of a circular economy according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation can be an interesting lens to analyse the challenges companies faced when they wanted to implement a sustainable PSS. This framework is particularly useful to understand the internal and external forces companies are dealing with in a transformation from traditional business models to ones like sustainable PSSs that need special conditions of operation. Design for sustainability as an area of study will shift in the coming years to focus its attention on the requirements of circular economics as the paradigm of production and consumption. Sustainable products, services and systems will be developed according to the conditions established by those circular conditions.

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