A knowledge management framework to support product-service systems design

A knowledge management framework to support product-service systems design

This paper presents a framework for knowledge reuse in a Product-Service Systems design scenario. The project aim is to develop a methodology to capture, represent and reuse knowledge to support product development in a collaborative enterprise context. The three core elements are: design knowledge, manufacturing capability knowledge, and service knowledge. There are three principal components ...

A Framework for Enterprise-driven Product-service Systems Design

As products become service platforms, customers purchase both products and their associated services. Service attributes affect product choices, and product choices affect to service demand and profit during the products life cycle. Enterprises offering such product service systems (PSS) must co-design products and services to maximize overall profit. This paper proposes an Enterprise-driven Pr...

Knowledge Discovery to Support Product Family Design

Abstract Sharing and reusing product design knowledge can help reduce cost and lead time when developing new products and facilitate product family design. Knowledge associated with product design can be represented by combining constraints, functions, rules, and facts. An appropriate representation scheme for products and their design is important to share and reuse the knowledge effectively. ...

Cooperative model production in systems design to support knowledge management

The computer support of cooperation and knowledge production across socially distributed activity systems has become an important topic in the context of the discourse on „knowledge management“. The present article will draw on concepts of cultural-historical activity theory to discuss the problem of how the notion of „knowledge“ is conceptualized and implicitly implemented in computer systems ...

A methodology for knowledge discovery to support product family design