For European leadership in strategic and high-value-added products, new business models and value-creation structures are needed. In addition to the focus on products, however, the service business is one of the key factors for differentiation from the competition, particularly in the manufacturing industry. Companies from outside the EU are now offering increasingly better product alternatives at often lower prices. Against this background, the development of strategic and high value added products must not end with the product. Product service systems incorporate this factor. This not only achieves consistent optimization of the product by permanently adapting it to customer needs. The largest part of the CO2 footprint in the manufacturing industry occurs in the utilization phase of the machines. Service offers a wide range of opportunities to have a positive impact on environmental sustainability or to offer Re-X (such as remanufacturing or recycling) as services.

When products need to be (re-)designed for remanufacturing, we need a focus on an everlasting core and standardized models to add on to reach high service levels throughout a prolonged life-cycle

To ensure product information along their extended lifetime to be collected,  these inspection and measurement approaches do not only need to assure high, quality, traceability, and compliance with quality standards but also dynamic ecosystem standards.

For European leadership in strategic and high-value-added products, new business models and value-creation structures are needed. In addition to the focus on products, however, the service business is one of the key factors for differentiation from the competition, particularly in the manufacturing industry. Companies from outside the EU are now offering increasingly better product alternatives at often lower prices. Against this background, the development of strategic and high value added products must not end with the product. Product service systems incorporate this factor. This not only achieves consistent optimization of the product by permanently adapting it to customer needs. The largest part of the CO2 footprint in the manufacturing industry occurs in the utilization phase of the machines. Service offers a wide range of opportunities to have a positive impact on environmental sustainability or to offer Re-X (such as remanufacturing or recycling) as services.

When products need to be (re-)designed for remanufacturing, we need a focus on an everlasting core and standardized models to add on to reach high service levels throughout a prolonged life-cycle

To ensure product information along their extended lifetime to be collected,  these inspection and measurement approaches do not only need to assure high, quality, traceability, and compliance with quality standards but also dynamic ecosystem standards.