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Service provision as a sub-model of modern business models

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Today’s turbulent economic environment confronts Germany’s tooling industry with new challenges. To compete with China and with the new eastern members of the European Union, German companies must come up with innovative products and services to stand out from their competitors. New types of business models shall offer individual solutions to the customers, integrating product and accompanying product-services to a product-service-system.

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The research and development project TecPro is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the Framework Concept “Research for Tomorrow’s Production” and managed by the Project Management Agency Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Production and Manufacturing Technologies Division (PTKA-PFT).

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    Günther Schuh, Christoph Klotzbach & Fabian Gaus

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Schuh, G., Klotzbach, C. & Gaus, F. Service provision as a sub-model of modern business models. Prod. Eng. Res. Devel. 2, 79–84 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11740-008-0084-6

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