Product-Service Engineering: State of the Art and Future Directions

Abstract Industrial companies are becoming more aware of the strategic and economic relevance of services relating to manufactured products. To overcome the apparent dichotomy between tangible artifacts and intangible elements, it is necessary to carry out a systematic reasoning encompassing different perspectives from both the manufacturing and service practices and related research streams. The paper reviews the State of the Art on Product-Service putting into evidence the current achievements fulfilled in the Service Engineering area and outlining possible future research directions.

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