The increasing competitiveness of today’s globalised economies and changing customer requirements prompt
manufacturers to provide integrated product and service solutions, referred to as Industrial Product-Service
Systems (IPS2). An IPS2 constitutes a customised solution, whereas providing performance is set above the
purchase of a mere technical product. It can comprise any combination of product and service shares. Once
such an offer is planned, the IPS2 concept development phase generates principle solutions that meet customerspecific
requirements. This article presents a model-based methodology to support an IPS2 designer during
the process of generating IPS2 concepts in the early phase of IPS2 development. This methodical framework
and the modelling approach for conceptual IPS2 development has been implemented as a computer-aided tool
and has been evaluated by solving a typical IPS2 issue.
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