Cost Decision Support in Product Design

The constraints addressed in decision making during product design, process planning and production planning determine the admissible solution space for the manufacture of products. The solution space determines largely the costs that are incurred in the production process. In order to be able to ma...

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Published inCIRP annals Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 107 - 112
Main Authors Liebers, A., Kals, H.J.J.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 1997
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Cost Estimating
Design
Design
Cost Estimating
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Summary:The constraints addressed in decision making during product design, process planning and production planning determine the admissible solution space for the manufacture of products. The solution space determines largely the costs that are incurred in the production process. In order to be able to make economically sound decisions, costing data support must be integrated into the decision making processes. Regarding product design, the designer must be supplied with transparent costing data, that is ready for direct application. In this paper a functional architecture for costing data support during product design, as well as a corresponding data structure are presented.
ISSN:0007-8506
DOI:10.1016/S0007-8506(07)60786-0