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DEVELOPING THE MATERIAL-SERVICE SYSTEM CONCEPT: A CASE STUDY OF STEEL INDUSTRIAL DRUMS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2021

Anais Engelmann ,
Anouk Zeeuw van der Laan ,
Graham Aid ,
Lars Nybom  and
Marco Aurisicchio
Anais Engelmann
Affiliation:
Imperial College London
Anouk Zeeuw van der Laan
Affiliation:
Imperial College London
Graham Aid
Affiliation:
Ragn-Sells Group
Lars Nybom
Affiliation:
Ragn-Sells Group
Marco Aurisicchio*
Affiliation:
Imperial College London
*
Aurisicchio, Marco, Imperial College London, Dyson School of Design Engineering, United Kingdom, [email protected]

Abstract

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Within the circular economy, the Product-Service System (PSS) is a key business model to slow down and dematerialise resource consumption between manufacturers or service providers and customers. Material-Service Systems (MSSs) have been proposed as a business model to develop the performance economy focusing on the relationship between material suppliers and manufacturers. The aim of this research is to introduce and develop the MSS concept and to apply it to a real-world case study. The research involved two stages. First, a modelling method is proposed to represent the flow, transformation and ownership of resources by the stakeholders in a supply chain. Second, the method is tested using steel industrial drums as a case. The results indicate that the MSS has the potential to radically transform the steel drums industry and it could work effectively with a PSS within a reuse system to recondition and reintroduce obsolete drums into the market.

Keywords

Product-Service Systems (PSS)SustainabilityCircular economy
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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 1: ICED21 , August 2021 , pp. 1223 - 1232
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