Product-as-a-Service is a smart and sustainable business model in which companies offer products and services to their customers. The service provider or producer usually retains ownership of the product, which encourages them to create the best possible product in terms of quality, lifespan, repairRepair is making a faulty product work again, allowing its use to be extended without the user parting with it, or with a view to reuseReuse designates all operations by which substances, materials or products that are not waste are used again in an identical way to their originally intended purpose. (donation, second-hand sale).ability and/or recyclabilityRecyclability covers the area of product design up to repurposing as a secondary material..
The guide can be used in two ways:
- from the start, step by step, if you want to identify and define new PaaS capabilities;
- from a certain step, if you want to test or refine an existing business concept.
PaaS models aim to use products and components as much and as long as possible by redesigning, reusing, repairing or sharing the product. If they are designed in the right way, it can create a lot of opportunities for your business.
It can:
- improve your competitive position by creating additional revenue streams when you add services (such as repair, maintenance, ...) to your product;
- extend the life of your product;
- help you to use materials efficiently in your production process;
- reduce your dependence on (scarce) raw materials;
- ...
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More information
The preliminary research and background information for the development of the PaaS guide can be consulted in this study (only available in Dutch):
