Tools for Human-Product Collaborative Development of Intelligent Product Service Systems [chapter]

Sebastian Scholze, Ana Correia, Dragan Stokic, Kevin Nagorny, Philipp Spindler
2016 IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology  
Intelligent products, having cyber physical features, are best candidates for building Intelligent Product Service Systems (IPSS), in which integrated products and services provide a higher level of intelligence. Such IPSS may actively provide feedback on their use, which in turn may support the development of new IPSS. The objective is to develop a set of tools to establish a Collaborative Network, where both human actors and products themselves can collaborate and contribute to the
more » ... of such IPSS. The tools support involvement of various stakeholders within the Collaborative Networks. Several tools, such as a tool to select sensors and intelligent features at the products, a tool to model context under which IPSS is used, as well as tools to provide feedback on the IPSS use are defined. The paper presents as well the application of the proposed concept in machine industry. Overview of State of the Art Cyber Physical Systems/Products: CPS are systems that include seamlessly integrated and closely interacting hardware (physical) and software (cyber) components sensing and to controlling (in real-time) the state of them and their environment. A high degree of complexity of such systems at a numerous spatial and temporal scale generate highly networked communications for integrating with their computational and physical components. As such CPS refer to information and communication systems (computing, communicating, actuating, sensing, etc.) seamless integrated in physical objects, interconnected through a unified network technology including the (Industrial) Internet (of Things/Services), providing several innovative applications based on digitized data and virtualized models, services and information. Therefore, CPS can also be referred to as emerging ubiquitous computing embedded cyber-physical applications that is bridging the physical and virtual worlds and share all kind of collaborative networks [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] . Product/Service-System (PSS): PSS has evolved in different geographic locations and has different motivations, e.g., one of the most spread concept is closely coupled sustainability and the reduction of environmental impact [12] . There are many research communities that deal with similar concepts, e.g. services sciences [13] .
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-45390-3_32 fatcat:wqpeyg476rd23lsgadx7bjdvhm