Sustainable product-service design in manufacturing industry

The interest of manufacturing enterprises in Product-Service (P-S) is growing; indeed, the transition from selling traditional products to proposing product-service integrated solutions can bring a new strategic advantage and consequently greater earnings. It is particularly challenging for manufacturing companies. However, the majority of manufacturing enterprises is still far to propose P-S solutions ready for the market because they are strongly focusing on the product: as a consequence, they are not well organized for service design, they adopt product-centred design approaches, and finally they lack of structural methods and tools to guide P-S design.