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Designing Industrial Product-Service System (PSS) Pilot Projects in Manufacturing Companies: A Proposed Process for Product and Customer Selection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2022

D. Sarancic ,
D. C. A. Pigosso  and
T. C. McAloone
D. Sarancic*
Affiliation:
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
D. C. A. Pigosso
Affiliation:
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
T. C. McAloone
Affiliation:
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
*
dasar@mek.dtu.dk

Abstract

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This paper proposes an approach for capital goods manufacturers to design Product-Service System (PSS) pilot projects by selecting appropriate products and customers. The authors conducted a single-case empirical study as a part of an ongoing action research project to maximise the learnings from a pilot project while minimising expenditure in extensive trial and error PSS solution testing. Two sets of criteria were elicited for product and customer selection, respectively, followed by a description of the ideal product and customer attributes for each of the three most common PSS archetypes.

Keywords

product-service systems (PSS)circular economyempirical studiescustomer selectionproduct selection

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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 2: DESIGN2022 , May 2022 , pp. 1119 - 1128
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