Aerospace industries are in the process of changing their business models. The so-called “power-by-the-hour” philosophy and the “servitisation” transformation of manufacturing organisations to service providers have redefined the value of services in complex engineering systems such as aircraft and aerospace operations compared to the traditional value of the product. The economy and drivers in aerospace society are dominated by complex networks of service systems: overlapping systems that continuously interact and create value through innovative ideas and processes.
The increasing complexity and interactive capability of these support networks has led to an extensive exploration of the expansive possibilities for service innovation and integration across different types of support and service systems. In parallel, service engineering as a novel engineering discipline emerges, which includes comprehensive design methodology of both products and services. Today, two directions for its further development can be observed. First, depending on the industrial sector, manifold options and barriers must be considered and broken down to develop a marketable service offering. Second, traditional aerospace manufacturers have to preserve many internal and supporting activities with respect to manufacturers’ need to reorganise their processes in order to cope with the challenges of adopting a novel business model.
With this special issue, we aim to address various areas of support and service engineering integral to product-service development and its transformation into high-reliability service, product data management in services, technology insertion, COTS, obsolescence, synchronised forecasting of spare parts demand, and tight synchronisation of maintenance services with health monitoring and other supporting services from the research perspective. The ultimate goal is to explore the most effective and efficient support and service system architectures and practices to ensure the operational readiness of aerospace assets during transition.
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Aerospace service system design and evaluation methodologies
- Support service enterprise architecture, framework and methodology
- Risks assessment for product service systems in aerospace
- Engineering of complex in-service aerospace systems
- Product lifecycle management of aerospace products
- Product design for services and sustainability
- Sustainable system design, development, operation, maintenance and services
- End-of-life aerospace system engineering and management
- Service engineering and supply chain integration
- Support information systems, development and evaluation
- Operations management and transformation strategy for servitisation in aerospace industries
- Benchmarking, metrics and performance drivers for servitisation
- Service system resource planning and optimisation
- Complexity and uncertainty in servitisation transformation
- Knowledge management in service engineering
- Decision support tools for support and service systems
- Measuring efficiency and agility in support service organisations
- Performance-based contracting strategies
- Aerospace system sustainability evaluation in socio-economic environment
Important Dates
Full paper due: 31 August, 2015
Notification of acceptance: 31 October, 2015
Final version of the paper due: 31 December, 2015
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