Quantified products: Case studies, features and their design implications
2023 (English)In: Informatica (Vilnius), ISSN 0868-4952, E-ISSN 1822-8844, Vol. 34, no 4, p. 825-845Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
In many industrial sectors, the current digitalization trend resulted in new products and services that exploit the potential of built-in sensors, actuators, and control systems. The business models related to these products and services usually are data-driven and integrated into digital ecosystems. Quantified products (QP) are a new product category that exploits data of individual product instances and fleets of instances. A quantified product is a product whose instances collect data about themselves that can be measured or, by design, leave traces of data. The QP design has to consider what dependencies exist between the actual product, services related to the product, and the digital ecosystem of the services. By investigating three industrial case studies, the paper contributes to a better understanding of typical features of QP and the implications of these features for the design of products and services. For this purpose, we combine the analysis of features of QP potentially affecting design with an analysis of dependencies between features. The main contributions of the work are (1) three case studies describing QP design and development, (2) a set of recurring features of QPs derived from the cases, and (3) a feature model capturing design dependencies of these features.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IOS Press, 2023. Vol. 34, no 4, p. 825-845
Keywords [en]
feature dependencies, feature modelling, product design, quantified product, Ecosystems, 'current, Built-in sensors, Case-studies, Design implications, Digital ecosystem, Feature dependency, Feature models, Industrial sector, Product and services
National Category
Information Systems Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-63375DOI: 10.15388/23-INFOR532ISI: 001165441300001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85180530840Local ID: POA;intsam;928333OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-63375DiVA, id: diva2:1828274
2024-01-162024-01-162024-10-03Bibliographically approved