Title
An integrated approach for rating engineering characteristics' final importance in product-service system development
Abstract
Product-service system (PSS) approach has emerged as a competitive strategy to impel manufacturers to offer a set of product and services as a whole. A three-domain PSS conceptual design framework based on quality function deployment (QFD) is proposed in this research. QFD is a widely used design tool considering customer requirements (CRs). Since both product and services influence satisfaction of customer, they should be designed simultaneously. Identification of the critical parameters in these domains plays an important role. Engineering characteristics (ECs) in the functional domain include product-related ECs (P-ECs) and service-related ECs (S-ECs). ECs are identified by translating customer requirements (CRs) in the customer domain. Rating ECs' importance has a great impact on achieving an optimal PSS planning. The rating problem should consider not only the requirements of customer, but also the requirements of manufacturer. From the requirements of customer, the analytic network process (ANP) approach is integrated in QFD to determine the initial importance weights of ECs considering the complex dependency relationships between and within CRs, P-ECs and S-ECs. In order to deal with the vagueness, uncertainty and diversity in decision-making, the fuzzy set theory and group decision-making technique are used in the super-matrix approach of ANP. From the requirements of manufacturer, the data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach is applied to adjust the initial weights of ECs taking into account business competition and implementation difficulty. A case study is carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed integrated approach for prioritizing ECs in PSS conceptual design.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.cie.2010.07.002
Computers & Industrial Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
product-related ecs,product-service system (pss),service-related ecs,integrated approach,product-service system development,analytic network process (anp),optimal pss planning,data envelopment analysis (dea),final importance,fuzzy set theory,customer domain,conceptual design,super-matrix approach,pss conceptual design,quality function deployment (qfd),customer requirement,prioritizing ecs,rating ecs,rating engineering characteristic,quality function deployment,analytic network process,data envelope analysis,product service system,competitive strategy,group decision making
Conceptual design,Quality function deployment,Competitive advantage,Design tool,Fuzzy set,Analytic network process,Data envelopment analysis,Engineering,Product-service system,Operations management
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
59
4
Computers & Industrial Engineering
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
32
1.60
20
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiuli Geng1824.15
Xuening Chu223821.29
Deyi Xue315019.11
Zaifang Zhang41657.84