COST ESTIMATION METHOD AND DEVICE

• Main Authors: FUNADA TAKESHI, UCHIDA JINICHI, SUZUKI NORIYASU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 28.09.2001
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; CONTROLLING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; REGULATING; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR; SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRANSPORTING; WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cost estimation method and a device which enable even an operator who does not have the expert knowledge of estimation to speedily make an estimation of high precision. SOLUTION: A storage device 201 on a design information server is stored with geometric information on size, area, volume, etc., of a CAD system and property information on components such as raw material quality. A CAD terminal 100 obtains the value of the cost estimation factor of an object product to be estimated fully automatically from the geometric information and component property information stored in the storage device 201 and an estimating operator operates on the CAD system to obtain the value of the cost estimation factor by using an automatic information acquiring function of the CAD system. The cost is calculated with the obtained estimation factor information and the cost calculation result is displayed on the CAD terminal 100.