Design support system of environmentally benign product service businesses

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24510207
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social systems engineering/Safety system
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: takata shozo 早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 教授 (50120340)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 環境調和型生産 / ビジネスモデル設計 / プロダクト・サービスシステム / ライフサイクルシミュレーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The increasing seriousness of environmental problems is forcing manufacturing companies to make their businesses sustainable. Therefore, environmentally benign businesses based on the Product Service System (PSS) have gained attention recently, because it can increase the effectiveness of life cycle options, which could reduce the environmental load. We propose a design method for environmentally benign PSS business, in which the provider offers products through a combination of services, delivery modes, and life cycle options. Such business can meet the different customer needs while enabling the implementation of delivery modes requiring a group of customers such as sharing and pooling. The method is verified via application to managed document services, in which various services related document management are provided together with multifunction copiers.

Free Research Field

環境調和型生産、メンテナンスマネジメント、環境調和型製品サービスシステム