Article: Extending the Functional Products definition with additional through-life-cycle aspects Journal: International Journal of Product Development (IJPD) 2016 Vol.21 No.4 pp.288 - 329 Abstract: The paper provides a comprehensive overview on which through-life cycle aspects of Functional Products (FP) are relevant to consider during development and later operation until end of life. The aspects, which are already proposed as part of the current definition of FP, are corroborated, and the additional new aspects found are proposed to extend the current definition of FP. An additional eight new aspects have been found, spanning, e.g., asset management, business model and research collaboration. Some of these new aspects may be relevant for the concepts of servitisation, through-life engineering services, product-service systems and industrial product-service systems as well. The practical implications of the results are that FP customers can improve their reasoning and requirement engineering together with FP providers. FP providers can, on the other hand, use the results to improve their long-term planning and activities from initial development activities (i.e. business case and requirement engineering) to operation at customer sites. The theoretical implications are that the additional new aspects and the proposed extended FP definition provide a foundation for researchers as well as indicating aspects/areas to further explore. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Extending the Functional Products definition with additional through-life-cycle aspects

Authors: John Lindström

Addresses: ProcessIT Innovations, Luleå University of Technology, SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden

Abstract: The paper provides a comprehensive overview on which through-life cycle aspects of Functional Products (FP) are relevant to consider during development and later operation until end of life. The aspects, which are already proposed as part of the current definition of FP, are corroborated, and the additional new aspects found are proposed to extend the current definition of FP. An additional eight new aspects have been found, spanning, e.g., asset management, business model and research collaboration. Some of these new aspects may be relevant for the concepts of servitisation, through-life engineering services, product-service systems and industrial product-service systems as well. The practical implications of the results are that FP customers can improve their reasoning and requirement engineering together with FP providers. FP providers can, on the other hand, use the results to improve their long-term planning and activities from initial development activities (i.e. business case and requirement engineering) to operation at customer sites. The theoretical implications are that the additional new aspects and the proposed extended FP definition provide a foundation for researchers as well as indicating aspects/areas to further explore.

Keywords: definition; development; functional products; operations; through-life-cycle aspects; asset management; business models; research collaboration; servitisation; through-life engineering services; industrial PSS; product-service systems; requirements engineering; product lifecycle management; PLM.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPD.2016.080310

International Journal of Product Development, 2016 Vol.21 No.4, pp.288 - 329

Accepted: 26 Aug 2016
Published online: 11 Nov 2016 *

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