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Tomohiko Sakao - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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prova provider value evaluation for Integrated Product service offerings
Procedia CIRP, 2015Co-Authors: Johannes Matschewsky, Tomohiko Sakao, Mattias LindahlAbstract:Through the provision of Integrated Products and services, solution providers have more to gain than solely profit. This paper introduces the concept of provider value, which is novel in the area of Integrated Products and services. Further, a method is proposed (ProVa) to identify and evaluate the provider value of an Integrated Product service offering (IPSO) during the development process. ProVa allows for an assessment in terms of monetary value, but also with respect to other categories such as information and customer relations. In addition, aspects such as uncertainty and experience curve effects are considered.The functionality of ProVa is shown by application to a case in IPSO design.
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a method to improve Integrated Product service offerings based on life cycle costing
CIRP Annals, 2015Co-Authors: Tomohiko Sakao, Mattias LindahlAbstract:Although a few papers have reported on life cycle cost (LCC) analysis of Integrated Product service offerings (IPSOs), insight on how to improve IPSOs based on LCC analysis is missing. This paper presents a method and an Excel and MATLAB-based tool that support IPSO design by employing LCC analysis, both from the provider and customer perspectives. This method takes advantage of exchangeability between Products and services, being enabled within IPSO design. The method has been applied to an existing IPSO and potential improvements have been identified, e.g. one cheap component causing high LCC that could be reduced significantly by redesign.
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environmental and economic benefits of Integrated Product service offerings quantified with real business cases
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2014Co-Authors: Mattias Lindahl, Erik Sundin, Tomohiko SakaoAbstract:This paper quantifies environmental and economic benefits of the Integrated Product Service Offering (IPSO) in real practice from a life cycle perspective, in comparison with its corresponding Product-sales type business as a reference. The paper also discusses the engineering activities contributing to those effects, as well as their enablers. To reach this goal, the paper investigates three IPSOs as real-life business cases in industry. Those cases are selected from different sectors and have different characteristics. In addition, the paper calculates and compares environmental impacts and economic costs of different offerings in each case through the use of Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing, respectively. In all three cases, IPSOs had environmental and economic advantages in comparison with the Product-sales type business. The engineering activities contributing to those advantages under IPSOs were recycling, remanufacturing, reuse, maintenance, and holistic planning and operation. The enablers were found to be high flexibility for realizing Products and services and close relationships with relevant actors.
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uncovering benefits and risks of Integrated Product service offerings using a case of technology encapsulation
Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering, 2013Co-Authors: Tomohiko Sakao, Anna Ohrwall Ronnback, Gunilla Olundh SandstromAbstract:The objective of this article is to uncover benefits and risks of Integrated Product Service Offering (IPSO) in a systematic manner. To do so, it adopts an explorative longitudinal in-depth case study (development of an IPSO based on a new technology) and adds insights to the existing literature. The article first proposes a theoretical and generic framework termed the PCP (Provider — Customer — Product) triangle with associated information flow and uncertainty. Second, various types of benefits and risks are presented based on the framework. Among others, the benefit of keeping IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) with the provider and the risk of regulation change are new findings from the case study. In addition, the case study reveals that IPSO is regarded as a positive contributor to innovation. Applying the framework and classification of benefits and risks as norms to other cases has yet to be done for verification. However, the framework contributes scientifically to a better understanding of the benefits and risks of IPSO. In addition, this framework is advantageous with its easiness to understand, which contributes practically to the dissemination of IPSO insight to industry.
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from component to system solution supplier strategic warranty management as a key to efficient Integrated Product service engineering
Cirp Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology, 2010Co-Authors: Erik Sundin, Anna Ohrwall Ronnback, Tomohiko SakaoAbstract:As hardening competition in industry pushes manufacturing companies to deliver increased customervalue, communication with the customer during the use phase becomes paramount. This paperinvestigates whether warranty management could be a strategic tool for improved Integrated Product/service engineering (IPSE) as a firm moves from component to system solution supplier. The researchmethodology appliedwas amultiple case study, with four suppliers as focal firms, where buyer–supplierrelationships were investigated from a supplier perspective. Results show that advanced warrantymanagement, implemented as a strategic tool, can be a key to efficient IPSE.
Erik Sundin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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environmental and economic benefits of Integrated Product service offerings quantified with real business cases
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2014Co-Authors: Mattias Lindahl, Erik Sundin, Tomohiko SakaoAbstract:This paper quantifies environmental and economic benefits of the Integrated Product Service Offering (IPSO) in real practice from a life cycle perspective, in comparison with its corresponding Product-sales type business as a reference. The paper also discusses the engineering activities contributing to those effects, as well as their enablers. To reach this goal, the paper investigates three IPSOs as real-life business cases in industry. Those cases are selected from different sectors and have different characteristics. In addition, the paper calculates and compares environmental impacts and economic costs of different offerings in each case through the use of Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing, respectively. In all three cases, IPSOs had environmental and economic advantages in comparison with the Product-sales type business. The engineering activities contributing to those advantages under IPSOs were recycling, remanufacturing, reuse, maintenance, and holistic planning and operation. The enablers were found to be high flexibility for realizing Products and services and close relationships with relevant actors.
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from component to system solution supplier strategic warranty management as a key to efficient Integrated Product service engineering
Cirp Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology, 2010Co-Authors: Erik Sundin, Anna Ohrwall Ronnback, Tomohiko SakaoAbstract:As hardening competition in industry pushes manufacturing companies to deliver increased customervalue, communication with the customer during the use phase becomes paramount. This paperinvestigates whether warranty management could be a strategic tool for improved Integrated Product/service engineering (IPSE) as a firm moves from component to system solution supplier. The researchmethodology appliedwas amultiple case study, with four suppliers as focal firms, where buyer–supplierrelationships were investigated from a supplier perspective. Results show that advanced warrantymanagement, implemented as a strategic tool, can be a key to efficient IPSE.
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from component to system solution supplier strategic warranty management as a key to efficient Integrated Product service engineering
42nd CIRP Conference on Manufacturing SystemsSustainable Development of Manufacturing Systems Grenoble France Wed. 3 - Fri. 5 June 2009, 2009Co-Authors: Erik Sundin, Anna Ohrwall Ronnback, Tomohiko SakaoAbstract:As hardening competition in industry pushes manufacturing companies to deliver increased customer value, communication with the customer during the use-phase becomes paramount. This paper investigates whether warranty management could be a method for improved Integrated Product/service engineering (IPSE) as a firm moves from component to system solution supplier. The research methodology applied was a multiple case study, with four suppliers as focal firms, where buyer-supplier relationships were investigated from a supplier perspective. Results show that advanced warranty reporting, implemented as a strategic tool, can be a key to efficient IPSE.
Anna Ohrwall Ronnback - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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uncovering benefits and risks of Integrated Product service offerings using a case of technology encapsulation
Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering, 2013Co-Authors: Tomohiko Sakao, Anna Ohrwall Ronnback, Gunilla Olundh SandstromAbstract:The objective of this article is to uncover benefits and risks of Integrated Product Service Offering (IPSO) in a systematic manner. To do so, it adopts an explorative longitudinal in-depth case study (development of an IPSO based on a new technology) and adds insights to the existing literature. The article first proposes a theoretical and generic framework termed the PCP (Provider — Customer — Product) triangle with associated information flow and uncertainty. Second, various types of benefits and risks are presented based on the framework. Among others, the benefit of keeping IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) with the provider and the risk of regulation change are new findings from the case study. In addition, the case study reveals that IPSO is regarded as a positive contributor to innovation. Applying the framework and classification of benefits and risks as norms to other cases has yet to be done for verification. However, the framework contributes scientifically to a better understanding of the benefits and risks of IPSO. In addition, this framework is advantageous with its easiness to understand, which contributes practically to the dissemination of IPSO insight to industry.
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from component to system solution supplier strategic warranty management as a key to efficient Integrated Product service engineering
Cirp Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology, 2010Co-Authors: Erik Sundin, Anna Ohrwall Ronnback, Tomohiko SakaoAbstract:As hardening competition in industry pushes manufacturing companies to deliver increased customervalue, communication with the customer during the use phase becomes paramount. This paperinvestigates whether warranty management could be a strategic tool for improved Integrated Product/service engineering (IPSE) as a firm moves from component to system solution supplier. The researchmethodology appliedwas amultiple case study, with four suppliers as focal firms, where buyer–supplierrelationships were investigated from a supplier perspective. Results show that advanced warrantymanagement, implemented as a strategic tool, can be a key to efficient IPSE.
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from component to system solution supplier strategic warranty management as a key to efficient Integrated Product service engineering
42nd CIRP Conference on Manufacturing SystemsSustainable Development of Manufacturing Systems Grenoble France Wed. 3 - Fri. 5 June 2009, 2009Co-Authors: Erik Sundin, Anna Ohrwall Ronnback, Tomohiko SakaoAbstract:As hardening competition in industry pushes manufacturing companies to deliver increased customer value, communication with the customer during the use-phase becomes paramount. This paper investigates whether warranty management could be a method for improved Integrated Product/service engineering (IPSE) as a firm moves from component to system solution supplier. The research methodology applied was a multiple case study, with four suppliers as focal firms, where buyer-supplier relationships were investigated from a supplier perspective. Results show that advanced warranty reporting, implemented as a strategic tool, can be a key to efficient IPSE.
Samuel Gomes - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A formal ontology-based spatiotemporal mereotopology for Integrated Product design and assembly sequence planning
Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2015Co-Authors: Elise Gruhier, Frédéric Demoly, Olivier Dutartre, Said Abboudi, Samuel GomesAbstract:This paper introduces the development of a formal ontology based on spatiotemporal mereotopology in the context of Integrated assembly design and sequence planning. The main objective is to make assembly information accessible and exploitable by information management systems and computer-aided X tools in order to support Product architects and designer's activities. Indeed Product design information and knowledge as well as the related assembly sequence require a semantic and logical foundation in order to be managed consistently and processed proactively. In this context, Product relationships are considered and described in the part-whole theory supported by mereology and its extension, mereotopology. Firstly, a literature survey on formalisms in assembly-oriented design, mereotopological theories and spatiotemporal ontologies is presented so as to highlight the current research issue. Then, a mathematical description approach of Product relationships based on mereotopology and temporal relationships is introduced. Built on this, an ontological development of the proposed theory using description logic rules is proposed. Finally, a mechanical assembly, as a case study, is introduced to illustrate the relevance of the proposed ontology.
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multiple viewpoint modelling framework enabling Integrated Product process design
International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (ijidem), 2010Co-Authors: Frédéric Demoly, Davy Monticolo, Benoit Eynard, Louis Rivest, Samuel GomesAbstract:Nowadays, companies have to cope with numerous constraints at organisational and technical levels in order to improve their competitiveness edges such as Productivity, efficiency, and flexibility. Integrated Product–process design becomes more and more complex to manage because of increasingly customized Products related to various stakeholders and concerns geographically distributed. It is still represents a huge challenge, especially in the early phases of Product development process. In such a context, the management of information within Integrated Product–process design highlights needs in a consistent engineering model that enables Product lifecycle management (PLM) integration. The paper presents a novel multiple viewpoint framework called multiple viewpoint assembly oriented, considering Product design and assembly process domains in the broader context of concurrent engineering and PLM. The proposed framework describes the consistency, the propagation of information change, and mechanisms of views generation among the Product lifecycle stages in order to support assembly oriented design philosophy. A new modelling language called System Modeling Language is used to describe the proposed model from a systems engineering point of view. The implementation of the model in a Web-service called PEGASUS as an application for PLM systems is described.
Verginia Mintcheva - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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indicators for environmental policy integration in the food supply chain the case of the tomato ketchup supply chain and the Integrated Product policy
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2005Co-Authors: Verginia MintchevaAbstract:Following the recent developments in supply chain management and environmental policy integration, it became evident that for successfully addressing the environmental challenges a holistic approach is necessary. After identifying a lack of sufficient information on the environmental performance and the uptake of the respective policy measures from food supply chain perspective, a research has been undertaken for designing indicators on these issues. As a concrete case, a tomato ketchup chain and the Integrated Product Policy framework have been examined. This paper presents the results of the study performed. After identifying and analysing the respective policy measures, a set of environmental indicators have been proposed and a discussion on their applicability and role in policy-making is raised.
