What is Design to Cost?
Achieving lower costs while retaining desired functionality means higher profit margins, more market share, and happier customers....
Are You Overpaying for Your Outsourced Parts?
It is nearly impossible for companies to know if they are paying the best possible price on every one of their outsourced parts....
How to Conduct a Spend Analysis
Conducting a spend analysis is an essential cost saving component in any business, but is especially important for manufacturing....
The Anatomy of Product Cost
This paper will outline what makes up product costs today....
6 Metrics That Will Help Improve Your Engineering Productivity
Metrics are essential to a healthy business. ...
Reducing Current Product Costs
Cost data is being calculated by different people and stored in disparate, distributed systems, creating huge consistency and data access challenges....
Product Lifecycle Trends
68% of respondents report that it takes more than a week to get a cost estimate....