Resource Planning of Industrial Product-Service Systems (IPS²) by a Heuristic Resource Planning Approach
H. E. Markus Meier, Birgit Funke · 2012
Industrial Product-Service-Systems (IPS2) are specified by delivering value in use to the customer while both product and service shares occur integrative over the whole life cycle. Thus they comprise several degrees of freedom, such as the partial substitution of product and service shares or the integration of customers’ resources, which the operational resource planning of IPS2 deals with. Furthermore it has to optimize the schedule regarding several aims like costs or constant work load. This article describes the Heuristic Resource Planning Approach for IPS2 which combines e.g. randomized search heuristics and evolutionary algorithms.