Sustainable Product Systems

MODULE DEVELOPED BY INGENJÖR4.0

Product as a Service

Start date
On demand
Next Round: Autumn 2025

Time commitment
This module take about 20 hours
to complete

Price
1 995 SEK ex. vat

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Learn how designing Products-as-a-Service can help you grow and reduce your environmental impact

Are you interested in expanding your business by creating value for your customers instead of just selling your products? Do you want to establish a recurring revenue stream and tighten customer relationships? Then, the module Product-as-a-Service in the Ingenjör 4.0 program is suitable for you. Together with your experienced instructor and coursemates, you will identify pathways toward your product-as-a-service offering, understand its preconditions and challenges, and assess both the economic and environmental upside of creating value instead of creating things.


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The schedule

Starting date: January 7

April 2, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CEST — Webinar 1

May 9, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM CEST — Webinar 2

Learning objectives

Understand the product-as-a-service business model from an engineering-centric viewpoint and its economic and environmental implications.
Identify and apply strategies, tools, and methods that support manufacturing companies in developing product-as-a-service offerings.
Understand and discuss the potential engineering-centric challenges of implementing a product-as-a-service business model.


Module structure

This module is centered around your learning and applying new knowledge to your individual context! You will use the information presented in recorded lectures in exercises and reflections to develop a deep understanding of how offering Products-as-a-Service would work for you. You will discuss with the module leader and your coursemates and get in-depth insight into the benefits and risks of designing and providing integrated products and services.

We will provide introductory and deepening reading , so you can take the module to either get an overall introduction to the topic or to dive in and kickstart product-service design in your business.

Targeted participants

This module is directed at the engineering and management staff of manufacturing companies. Whether you are a project manager, design engineer, strategic buyer, product owner, service engineer, product planner, or sustainability manager, if you want to learn how to create more value for your customers and improve your environmental performance, this module will be valuable for you!



Content

1. Introduction - the Product-as-a-Service business model in the context of the circular economy.
2. The engineering context of implementing Product-as-a-Service
3. The mechanisms behind the advantages of Product-as-a-Service compared to traditional products concerning environmental performance and business
4. The design of Products-as-a-Service with a lifecycle focus
5. Wrapping up

 

Time commitment

You will be onboarded to the learning portal as soon as your registration process is completed. This module take about 20 hours to complete. Webinars are included throught the semester, where you can engage in deeper discussions on selected topics, together with teachers and co-learners.

Important
After applying to the program, please secure dates in your calendar to be able to join planned webinars and assure time available required for learning.

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