Application-driven product-service system configuration: Customer-centered strategy

Abstract

Companies are currently forced to implement new production and marketing paradigms because modern markets are getting more and more saturated and commoditized. One of the trends is orientation to services. The paper investigates the problem of product-service system configuration in a customer-centered way and discusses how it has been solved. The paper shares the authors’ vision of required improvements in business processes and information systems at the considered company related to life cycle management for product-service system configurations. Though the research results are based on the analysis of one company, the presented work can give significant input to achieve benefits for component manufacturers that tend to become system vendors in general.