About Training
As a leading authority in the field of cost engineering and analytics, SPCEA is proud to offer expert training via a comprehensive range of virtual courses developed by our team of accomplished cost engineering experts. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or a newcomer to the industry, our training programs are designed to provide learners with valuable insights into the critical topics of cost engineering.
SPCEA members enjoy exclusive discounts on our training courses, allowing you to enhance your skills and stay ahead in today’s competitive business landscape.
Activity Based Cost Modeling
Authored by Douglas T. Hicks and sponsored by 3C Software
During this course you will:
- Learn the critical difference between Cost Accounting and Managerial Costing
- Discover why the traditional, direct labor-based cost model just doesn’t work anymore
- Understand why “Causality” is the most critical factor in effective cost modeling
- Discover a “Conceptual Framework” for creating a manufacturing firm’s cost model
- Understand why customer costing is as important as product costing
- Learn to use “Causality” to both predict costs and assign them to processes, products, and customers
- Understand how accounting’s historical, financial costs must be converted to future, economic costs for effective decision making
- Learn how “Causality” can be used to model unique costing situations
Pricing:
Members – $75
Non-members – $90
Stamping Cost Estimation
Authored by Keith Koehler
During this course you will learn about the basic concepts of stamping manufacturing process and costing methodology including:
- Raw materials
- Types of material
- Gross vs. net weight
- Material costing
- Stamping equipment
- Stamping process
- Process cost
- Stamping tooling cost
- Post stamping finishing
- Packaging
- Specialty equipment
- Freight and duty
- Development costs
Pricing:
Members – $50
Non-members – $65
Introduction to TRIZ value and cost optimization methodology
Authored by John Borza
During this course you will learn about Inventive Problem-Solving for Value and Cost Optimization
- Why we need such a tool
- Left Brain Thinking
- Right Brain Thinking
- Engaging the whole brain
- Psychological Barriers
- How to break psychological inertia
Pricing:
Members – $50
Non-members – $65
MOLDING COST ESTIMATION
AUTHORED BY HEATH WALL
During this course you will learn about the basic concepts of molding manufacturing process and costing methodology including:
- Raw materials
- Types of material
- Gross vs. net weight
- Material costing
- Molding equipment
- Molding processes
- Process cost
- Molding tooling cost
- Packaging
- Freight and duty
Pricing:
Members – $50
Non-members – $65
FORGING COSTING TRAINING
Prepared by Vinod Goranalli
In this training we will be covering below topics:
- What is forging, it’s significance, forgeability
- Forging technology, their classification, operations carried by forging
- Forging tools, tool design consideration, tool materials, how to product tools
- Forging production process – machine used in forging operation and how to select it
- Cost estimation of forging in detail
- Cost estimation case study
Pricing:
Members – $50
Non-members – $65