Toward a PSS lifecycle management systems: considerations and architectural impacts

Lean design methodologies can be used to foster and improve the integrated product-service design process. The PSS Lean Design methodology supports the PS requirements management definition and the design of the activities to define and later perform the service. The introduction of the design of product-service system in manufacturing companies needs to re-think the common management of the product structure including also service elements and also changing the structure to be adapted in the provision of service. Integration of the PSS Lean Design methodology to optimize the product-service design requires an appropriate redefinition of a PLMS main components. The paper proposes a description of relations and impacts for the development of a PSS lifecycle management system