C. Mannweiler
Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Production Systems, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
M. Siener
Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Production Systems, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
J.C. Aurich
Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Production Systems, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Published in: Proceedings of the 2nd CIRP IPS2 Conference 2010; 14-15 April; Linköping; Sweden
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 77:3, p. 21-26
Published: 2012-10-11
ISBN: 978-91-7393-381-0
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
The markets of capital goods manufacturer are dynamically changing throughout the last years. Offering Product-Service Systems (PSS) provide a promising starting point to obtain competitiveness and to realize the changed customer demands. For fulfilling the demands by PSS; an individual PSS-configuration is necessary. After this configuration process several PSS-variants are available.
The customers’ investment decisions for one of these variants are mainly based on the comparison of the purchase costs; neglecting other costs; which arise over the PSS-lifecycle. Thus; for supporting the customers; the paper presents a concept for evaluating and selecting the suitable PSS by a Lifecycle Cost Indicator.
