IT on demand - towards an environmental conscious service system for Vienna (AT)

Author

Brandstötter, M. ; Haberl, M. ; Knoth, R. ; Kopacek, B. ; Kopacek, P.

Author_Institution

Austrian Society for Syst. Eng. & Autom., Xx, Austria

fYear

2003

fDate

8-11 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

799

Lastpage

802

Abstract

The presented project is aimed at developing strategies of turning the existing system into product service system (PSS) in order to stop the trend of shortening lifetimes of IT products and to significantly reduce the amount of waste out of this sector. A product service system consists of tangible products and intangible services, designed and combined so that they jointly are capable of fulfilling specific customer needs. It tries to reach the goals of a sustainable development, which means improved economic, environmental and social aspects. The goal of this project has been to offer customers in Vienna a service that would provide the same value as the purchase and ownership of a product and to explore the necessary conditions for creation of such service system in Vienna.

Keywords

DP industry; customer services; environmental factors; macroeconomics; social sciences; sustainable development; waste reduction; IT products; Vienna; customer needs; economic aspects; environmental aspects; environmental conscious service system; product ownership; product service system; social aspects; sustainable development; waste reduction; Computer industry; Environmental factors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2003. EcoDesign '03. 2003 3rd International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tokyo, Japan

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8590-x

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECODIM.2003.1322776

Filename

1322776