Introducing Product Service System Architectures for realizing Circular Economy

Towards an Approach for Service-Oriented Product Line Architectures

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has appeared as an emergent approach for developing distributed applications as a set of self-contained and business-aligned services. SOA aids solving integration and interoperability problems and provides a better Information Technology (IT) and business alignment, giving more flexibility for the enterprises. However, SOA does not provide support for high c...

Moving from a Product-Based Economy to a Service-Based Economy for a More Sustainable Future

Waste and circular economy

Re-Introducing Consumption to the ‘Circular Economy’: A Sociotechnical Analysis of Domestic Food Provisioning

The paper makes two contributions to the advancement of the ‘circular economy’ as a blueprint for a more sustainable society. The first is to highlight the importance of understanding the dynamics of consumption and waste in the domestic sphere. The second is to illustrate two ways in which using insights from socio-technical literature on sustainable consumption, in combination with the sociol...

Architectures for product families

The advent of the buyers’ market has imposed a necessity on manufacturing companies to suit individual customer requirements. Companies have answered this need by offering a large variety from which customers can choose their ideal products. Preferably, these products have many common modules to reduce the efforts in development and increase the economy of scale in manufacturing. Still, specifi...