The study of a product service system for the leasing of a water filtration device

Abstract

The paper presents an LCA study to discuss the environmental impact and economic performance for the leasing of a water filtration device. A proposed leasing program was evaluated and compared to the traditional sell model. The results show that the most contribution of environmental impacts occurs in the use stage, which contributed approximately 36% of total impact. In terms of economical performance, through maintenance, leasing model extended the life of components and reduced the number of components being manufactured and assembled, which could lower the cost of manufacturing. However, with the increase in service transport stage, cost slightly increased. Consequently, as compared with traditional sell model, leasing model could reduce approximately 24% of total cost which concluded high feasibility of PSS. In EEI analysis, the benefit which PSS enhanced is positive as it compared to the traditional sell model. The proposed leasing model displays the positive benefit in both environment and economic success.