The aerospace and defence industries are moving towards new types of agreement such as availabilitycontracts based on Product-Service System (PSS) business models. Obsolescence has become one of themain problems that will impact on many areas of the system during its life cycle. This paper...

Currently, manufacturing organisations worldwide are shifting their businessmodels towards Product-Service Systems (PSS), which implies thedevelopment of new support agreements such as availability-based contracts.This transition is shifting the responsibilities for managing and...