Product Service Demand Forecasting in Hierarchical Service Structure

Service demand forecasting through the systemability model: a case study

Companies competing in an increasingly competitive market must ensure the production of goods with excellent performance, able to satisfy their customers and which have low manufacturing and management costs. It is in this context that companies have, in recent years, invested in research and development and have upgraded their reliability and maintenance functions. In many cases, the maintenan...

Service Design and Product-Service Systems

Product designers have been the main design competence to be employed in product oriented businesses. When it comes to the design of Product-Service Systems, employing product design competences would be a conservative approach. Design theorist Buchanan identifies design orders spanning from graphic, over product and interaction, to systemic design, explaining important differences in perspctiv...

DEMAND ESTIMATES FOR AGRICULTURAL, MANUFACTURING AND SERVICE PRODUCTS

Product Construction Service

The ABSTRACT FACTORY pattern is a solution often used for isolating clients from the construction of concrete objects. Normally a new concrete factory class is developed for each concrete product family. Therefore new specific construction code has to be written each time a new product family needs to be supported. This approach influences software productivity negatively as it only covers the ...

Service Based Product Lines

Product lines are sets of products designed to solve complex problems that a single tool is not able to approach because of the complexity. Moreover product lines are scalable: customers can buy only components that they need to work at present. Future enhancement could be done with little training effort due to the homogeneity of products inside a product line. These method of software product...