Novel Tools for Product-service System Engineering

The objective of the research is to develop novel tools for engineering of Product Service Systems around products, which possess cyber physical features. The products with cyber physical features, such as vehicles, machines, home appliances, offer large spectrum of opportunities to provide new services around such products. The analysis of the state of the art indicate that engineering tools to support effective engineering of services around such products, are still missing. Two new engineering tools directly supporting development of the product service systems are developed a tool for selection /definition of sensors and intelligent features at the products for building services and tools for embedding context sensitivity into products and services. The research is driven by industrial application scenarios addressing different aspects of product-services systems as well as products development in different sectors (automotive, home appliances, automation equipment etc.). In this paper the focus is on an application scenario in automation equipment industry.