Reference Architecture for Dynamical Organization of IPS² Service Supply Chains in the Delivery Phase
H. E. Markus Meier, Eckart Uhlmann, Oliver Völker, Claudio Geisert, C. Stelzer · 2012
Flexibility is one of the main demands onto the organization of delivering Industrial Product-Service Systems (IPS). IPS development specifies all product shares, service shares and their interdependencies in an IPS product model. The management of the service deliveries ans resources is the task of the IPS organization. For the containment of influences, a reference architecture for dynamical organization to create and operate IPS service supply chains is developed. This paper describes a reference architecture for the IPS organization by an modular organzition unit concept and how processes within the operation of IPS can be managed by software agents.