Strategy for Sustainable Design from Application of Product Service System

Abstract

”Sustainability” is a popular and hot topic today. This idea is apparently reflected in corporate management and product development. Technology development and industrial revolution not only provide human beings luxury living quality but also causes global environmental problems and natural resources crisis on earth. Therefore, quite a few environmental protection policies in the world have been made. ”Reduce, reuse and recycle” definitely becomes a new life trend. Under this concept, Product Service System (PSS) is a new way to satisfy the customers' needs by means of a complete process in products and services. It can snake resource usage become a closed loop, thus reducing total product quantity and enhancing resource usage sufficiency. PSS has a characteristic of lower environmental impacts. Therefore, the author incorporates the concept of PSS into sustainable product design strategy. This study first utilizes Analytic Network Process (ANP) to analyze both service categories from PSS and ranking priority of life cycle structure to be the foundation of sustainable product design. Secondly, this study adopts Modified Delphi (MD) method to inspect the sustainable design principles for the application of PSS on city bikes. Furthermore, the author develops evaluation guidance and cheek list to make sure the target achievement of product sustainable design. Finally, this research accomplishes an applied strategic structure of PSS' s product sustainable design. By employing PSS on sustainable product design, the study improves the impact of product life cycle on environmental quality. As a result, this study provides the PSS's design principles of sustainable products for corporations, and supplies a continuous service to create an operation mechanism with higher profit and lower risk as well.