Abstract
As Product-Service Systems (PSS) are capable to provide more specialized offers to customers, an appropriate design of PSS influences aspects of customer acceptance. The differentiation within PSS-offers bases on services and it requires the switch from offering pure product to offering PSS. Especially traditional companies who offer pure products without additional services must meet the challenge of servitization. To support those companies in planning PSS, we developed a service classification model. For this, we first analyzed existing classification taxonomies from various authors and identified existing service offers. We aggregated the identified services and optimized the number of services using a clustering algorithm. The result is a classification model of services, which helps PSS-planners to identify suitable services for their products.
Original language | English |
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Pages | 34-39 |
Number of pages | 6 |
State | Published - 2015 |
Event | Design Engineering in the Context of Asia - Asian Design Engineering Workshop, A-DEWS 2015 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong Duration: 29 Oct 2015 → 30 Oct 2015 |
Conference
Conference | Design Engineering in the Context of Asia - Asian Design Engineering Workshop, A-DEWS 2015 |
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Country/Territory | Hong Kong |
City | Hong Kong |
Period | 29/10/15 → 30/10/15 |
Keywords
- Product-Service Systems
- Service clustering
- Service identifcation
- Services classification