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Cost Engineering
Target of the project was to significantly reduce product costs by cost engineering methods like product-value-design and target-price-calculation as well as process optimization.
Initial Situation
- A producer of gas lasers
- Sales and profit declining
- Measures to reduce material, staff and quality cost already started
- Ideas available to reduce product cost, but not yet in implementation
- Low in-house production depth
Targets
- Cost reduction for
- Material
- Assembly process
Approach
- Data analysis to identify cost drivers
- Cost-Breakdown, ABC-Listing, suppliers, technology
- product value design and target costing
- generate ideas for cost down measures
- combine ideas to feasible concepts
- prioritisation of technical concepts
- Evaluation and rating of concept by target costing
Results
- Reduced material cost by 10%
- Reduced assembly cost by 10%
- Increased efficiency by 20% through implementation of 3 concepts (potential patentable inventions)