Changes in 🟡 Product Service System Reference Ontology

• Maturity: 🟡 Provisional

New ontology in this release, review all classes: 🟡 Product Service System Reference Ontology

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Classes

Construct	Definition
BusinessModel	plan specification to fulfill objectives of a business organization
CommercialServiceRealizableEntity	realizable entity that concretizes a commercial service specification which is about a product and that is realized in a commercial service
ConsumableResourceRole	role that is borne by a material entity, when that entity is intended to be consumed/transformed in a planned process and the quantity of the resource is reduced after use
ManufacturingResourceRole	role that inheres in an independent continuant where that continuant bears a disposition that, if realized, is realized in a manufacturing process
NonConsumableResourceRole	role that is borne by a material entity, when that entity is intended to be used but quantity is not reduced in a planned process
ProductDesignSpecification	design specification that is a set of characteristics essential for a type of material products and that have to be jointly taken into account to prescribe the material product
ProductFamily	group of related goods produced by the same company under the same business organization
ProductFamilySpecification	specification that is a set of characteristics essential to group material products based on design and / or production processes and / or value proposition of the business organization
ProductProvider	person or organization which has a product provider role
ProductQuality	quality that describes an aspect, or attribute, related to the product
ProductRequirementSpecification	requirement specification that prescribes a material product
ProductServiceSystem	engineered system that aims to satisfy a need of the market (e.g. to be sold in order to provide profit and support customers by covering their needs), and jointly fulfil customer’s needs and it must include some material product and commercial service specification, and agents or group of agents and may include infrastructure (software or hardware)
ProductProviderRole	supplier role held by a person or business organization that both produces and sells a product, or only sells it
ProductServiceSystemBusinessCustomer	business organization that buys and uses the PSS and related products and services
ProductServiceSystemBusinessProcess	business process in which PSS is developed, implemented, distributed and used
ProductServiceSystemConsumerRole	customer role held by a person or business organization when it receives and consumes a product service system
ProductServiceSystemIndicator	measurement information content entity used to measure/evaluate any aspect within the scope of PSS, namely a process, a PSS, a product, a service, etc.
ProductServiceSystemProvider	supplier that bears a product service system provider role
ProductServiceSystemProviderRole	supplier role held by a person or business organization that offers product service system(s) and owns intellectual property rights (IPR) on the commercial service specification
ProductServiceSystemQuality	quality that describes an aspect or attribute related to the PSS
ProductServiceSystemRequirementSpecification	requirement specification that prescribes a product service system
ProductServiceSystemResourceRole	role held by a material resource that is a mean (source) that can be used for the design, development, offer or delivery of a PSS
ProductServiceSystemSupplierOrganization	business organization that both produces and sells something (product, service, PSS), or only sells it
ProductVariantSet	subset of goods that belongs to a product family, based on design and / or production processes and / or value proposition of the business organization
ProductVariantSetSpecification	specification that is a set of characteristics essential to group a subset of material products that belongs to a Product Family, based on design and / or production processes and / or value proposition of the business organization
ServiceRequirementSpecification	requirement specification that prescribes a commercial service
ServiceSpecification	design specification that is a set of characteristics essential for a commercial service and that have to be jointly taken into account to prescribe the commercial service