Development of the Design Guideline for Product-service Systems

Recently, product-service systems (PSSs) have begun attracting attention as income-generation options for manufacturers. While many researchers have developed design methods and evaluation tools for PSSs and have validated their effectiveness, guidelines for how to use these methods and tools in the design process are rare. As a first step for developing guidelines for PSS design, this paper reviews the existing design methods and evaluation tools for PSS outlined in the Proceedings of the CIRP International Conference on Industrial Product-Service Systems, 2009–2013.