Transformation towards an IPS2 business: A deployment approach for process-based PSS development projects

Existing methods and tools developed in the frame of the IPS2 research are mainly concerned with general IPS2 and service design and are still very conceptional. Deployment approaches for those methods and tools for the use in practice are hard to find. This paper proposes a deployment approach for process-based IPS2 development projects in industry, which has been designed in the scope of a German project on IPS2 Engineering. This deployment approach proposes a systematic approach for manufacturers to deploy dedicated development methodology and process-based project management methods for IPS2 development.