Reference Product-Service System Lifecycle Models in Virtual Enterprise Context

PSS is witnessed to become more and more dynamic and complex due to the fact that more and more stakeholders involve and more factors need to be taken into consideration. So it is necessary to raise a PSS lifecycle model in PSS planning phase to help companies to quickly respond to changes and change propagations along the whole lifecycle. This paper, concerning about another prevailing concept-VE, is dedicated to propose reference PSS lifecycle models in VE context. To fulfill this, three tasks are clarified to achieve this target; respectively are identifying appropriate PSS lifecycle phases, identifying appropriate VE lifecycle phases and integrating PSS lifecycle phases into VE context. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.