Customization-Oriented Design of Product-Service System

This book is devoted to the customization design of product/service system (PSS), making use of a systematic design process and a number of methods, especially Industrial Customer Activity Cycle Analysis, Service Quality Function Deployment, Service Funct

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CustomizationOriented Design of Product-Service System

Customization-Oriented Design of Product-Service System

Wenyan Song

Customization-Oriented Design of Product-Service System

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Wenyan Song School of Economics and Management Beihang University Beijing, China

ISBN 978-981-13-0862-8 ISBN 978-981-13-0863-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0863-5

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Preface

Many manufacturers today are striving to offer high value-added product-service system (PSS) due to the increasing competition and environmental pressure. PSS is a system consisting of products, services, networks of players, and supporting infrastructure, which are jointly capable of fulfilling specific client demands in an economical and sustainable manner. PSS design activities face a variety of challenges such as a high level of customization as well as its resulting challenges, i.e., hidden requirements in product use phase, potential conflicts of design attributes, and internal complexity of service processes. Specifically, due to a higher number of and more variable stakeholders involved in PSS, PSS requirements management with the methods for product requirements elicitation is challenged. Moreover, different value propositions to the stakeholders may also lead to potential conflicts between design attributes. Besides, when the external environment (e.g., customer requirements) changes greatly, the PSS providers have to rearrange service processes and resources, and even to redesign the whole PSS to adapt to the changed environm