Special Issue "Data-Driven Development for Sustainable Smart Product-Service Systems"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Xinyu Li
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Delta-NTU Corporate Laboratory for Cyber-Physical Systems, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore
Interests: smart product–service systems; knowledge management
Prof. Dr. Pai Zheng
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Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong 999077, China
Interests: smart product–service systems; engineering design informatics; industrial digital servitization
Prof. Dr. Tao Peng
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Guest Editor
Institute of Industrial Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Interests: innovative technologies for sustainable manufacturing; big data-driven production management; smart service and productization for sustainability

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Responding to a call for “doing more with less material” in circular economy, two concepts are proposed for promoting sustainability in the industrial system. One is a circular system aiming to achieve use of “less material”, transforming the linear lifespan into a circular one via several reversible strategies (e.g., re-design, remanufacturing, redistribution, reuse, and recycle). The other one is a product–service system for ‘doing more’, which largely extends the product lifespan with the innovation of multiple add-on services.

Enabled by emerging information and communication technology (ICT), such as advanced ubiquitous sensing, cloud computing, deep learning, and knowledge graphs, the intersection of two prevailing concepts, so-called sustainable smart PSS (SSPSS), is nurtured. Analyzing big lifecycle data and massive empirical knowledge collected from sensing devices and generated by stakeholders, SSPSS can better perform its sustainable use/reuse, maintenance, reconfigure, and recycle processes throughout the whole lifecycle and enhance user experience with highly customized on-demand services and reasonable consumptions of cyber-physical resources. Therefore, it provides a promising manner to realize sustainable development in the industrial system.

This Special Issue, entitled “Data-driven Development for Sustainable Smart Product–Service Systems”, concentrates on (big) data-driven ideations and methodologies for co-developing/re-developing sustainable products, services, and integrated systems. The scope of this Special Issue includes but is not limited to the following topics:

  • New-generation ICT-enabled SSPSS architecture;
  • Systematic framework and development process for SSPSS;
  • Sustainable products and services innovation with context awareness;
  • Multisource heterogeneous sustainability data analytics;
  • Information/knowledge management systems design for SSPSS;
  • Intelligent decision making in sustainable production and operation management;
  • Quantified evaluation of sustainability in exploiting cyber-physical resources;
  • Informatics-based sustainable evolvement in product and service iterations;
  • Case studies on SSPSS development and implementation;
  • Other methodologies, tools, and systems toward SSPSS.

As the overlapping scope of the two emerging fields of smart product–service systems and smart circular economy suggests, this Special Issue is intended to renovate the production–consumption pattern in co-developing/re-developing both physical components and digital services, through state-of-the-art informatics-based approaches, tools, and systems.

Dr. Xinyu Li
Prof. Dr. Pai Zheng
Prof. Dr. Tao Peng
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • smart product–service systems
  • circular system
  • sustainability
  • reversible design and development
  • data-driven manners
  • knowledge-based systems

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Remaining Useful Life Prediction-Based Maintenance Decision Model for Stochastic Deterioration Equipment under Data-Driven
Sustainability 2021, 13(15), 8548; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158548 - 31 Jul 2021
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Currently, the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) prediction accuracy of stochastic deterioration equipment is low. Existing researches did not consider the impact of imperfect maintenance on equipment degradation and maintenance decisions. Therefore, this paper proposed a remaining useful life prediction-based maintenance decision model under [...] Read more.
Currently, the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) prediction accuracy of stochastic deterioration equipment is low. Existing researches did not consider the impact of imperfect maintenance on equipment degradation and maintenance decisions. Therefore, this paper proposed a remaining useful life prediction-based maintenance decision model under data-driven to extend equipment life, promoting sustainable development. The stochastic degradation model was established based on the nonlinear Wiener process. A combination of real-time update and offline estimation estimated the degradation model’s parameters and deduced the equipment’s RUL distribution. Based on the RUL prediction results, we established a maintenance decision model with the lowest long-term cost rate as the goal. Case analysis shows that the model proposed in this paper can improve the accuracy of RUL prediction and realize equipment sustainability. Full article
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Towards the Human–Machine Interaction: Strategies, Design, and Human Reliability Assessment of Crews’ Response to Daily Cargo Ship Navigation Tasks
Sustainability 2021, 13(15), 8173; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158173 - 21 Jul 2021
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Human error is a crucial factor leading to maritime traffic accidents. The effect of human–computer interaction (HCI) also plays a leading role in human error. The objective of this study is to propose a method of interaction strategies based on a cognitive-processing model [...] Read more.
Human error is a crucial factor leading to maritime traffic accidents. The effect of human–computer interaction (HCI) also plays a leading role in human error. The objective of this study is to propose a method of interaction strategies based on a cognitive-processing model in crews’ daily navigation tasks. A knowledge-based ship HCI framework architecture is established. It provides an extensible framework for the HCI process in the maritime domain. By focusing on the cognitive process of a crew in the context of accident and risk handling during ship navigation, based on the information, decision, and action in crew context (IDAC) model, in combination with the maritime accident dynamics simulation (MADS) system, the MADS-IDAC system was developed and enhanced by the HCI structure and function design of the dynamic risk analysis platform for maritime management. The results indicate that MADS enhanced by HCI can effectively generate a strategy set of various outcomes in preset scenarios. Moreover, it provides a new method and thought for avoiding human error in crew interaction and to lower the risk of ship collision as well as effectively improving the reliability of HCI. Full article
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