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Cost Analysis and Estimating for Engineering and Management

Cost Analysis and Estimating for Engineering and Management. Chapter 1 Importance. Overview. The Design Process Economic Evaluations Users Results Reasons Business Strategies Information International Business. Reasons for Study. The Goal of Business Is to Make Money

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Cost Analysis and Estimating for Engineering and Management

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  1. Cost Analysis and Estimatingfor Engineering and Management Chapter 1 Importance

  2. Overview • The Design Process • Economic Evaluations • Users • Results • Reasons • Business Strategies • Information • International Business

  3. Reasons for Study • The Goal of Business Is to Make Money • Desire to Know Outcome Before Making a Commitment • Need for Cost and Price Estimates

  4. Design • Every Design Is a New Combination of Pre-Existing Knowledge that Satisfies an Economic Want • New Combination – Creativity • Economic Want – Driver

  5. Elements of Design • Identification and Definition of Problem • Development of Concepts • Engineering Models • Evaluation • Design • Implementation

  6. Engineering Design Process

  7. Problem • Recognize a Need • Economic Want • Good Description = Good Solution • Detailed Specification of Requirements

  8. Concept • New Combinations of Existing Knowledge • Need to Collect a Lot of Knowledge • Relative to the Problem • Unrestricted Generation of Concepts • Then Select and Refine

  9. Engineering Models • Representation to Explain an Aspect • Prediction • Discover Pertinent Parameters • Flexibility • Simplistic

  10. Evaluation • Compromise • Iterative Process with Modeling • Satisfies Requirements? • Cost • Profit • Fit with Capabilities

  11. Sources of Cost • Largely Determined by Design • 50% Purchased Material / Parts • 30% Overhead • 15% Factory Labor

  12. Design • Addresses All Requirements through • Computing • Drafting • Checking • Answers • What It Looks Like • How Shall It Be Built • How Will It Work

  13. Implementation • Requires a Decision to Proceed • Must Be Assured: • It Satisfies All Requirements • It Will Yield a Profit • Needs an Economic Evaluation

  14. Economic Evaluation • Market Defines “Economic Want” • Cost Needs to Satisfy • Cost Model Should Parallel the Design • Detail and Accuracy of Estimate • Depends on Amount of Info Available • Depends on the Time for the Estimate

  15. Users • Economic Evaluation Produces: • Dollar Estimates • Labor Hour Estimates • Material Requirements • Used By: • Engineering –Manufacturing • Marketing –Materials Mgmt. • Accounting/Financial Planning

  16. Results from Economic Evaluation • Requires Answers to 2 Questions • “What Does It Look Like?” • “How Many?” • Selects from Design Alternatives • Determines Manufacturing Methods • Decisions to Proceed

  17. Other Reasons • Cost to Manufacture • Profit Prediction • Labor Requirements • Time (Scheduling) • Control of Operations • Improvement • Budgets • Equipment Justification

  18. Strategies • Mass Production • Large Quantities / Little Variation • Batch Production • Smaller Quantities / Large Variation • Similar Processes • Projects • Very Small Quantities / Specialized

  19. Strategies

  20. What Determines Cost and When

  21. Modes of Competition • Design Uniqueness or Superiority • Price and Cost • Quality • Reliability • Innovation / First to Market • Customer Support • Custom Design / Manufacturing • Commodity Products

  22. Traditional Established Products Slow Evolution Incremental Changes History of Costs High-Tech Rapid Changes Short Cost Recovery Period Fast Time to Market Flexibility Concurrent Engineering Challenging Cost Analysis Business Classification

  23. Information • Available Information Varies • By Point in the Development • Amount of Uniqueness of Product • Historical Data (Accounting Records) • Measured Data • Policy Data

  24. Sources of Information • Accounting • Personnel Department • Operating Departments • Purchasing • Sales/Marketing • Supervisors/Managers • Trade Associations / Media

  25. About the Estimate • Amount of Information Available • Time Allotted to Make the Estimate • Overall Size (Amount) of the Estimate • Intended Use for the Estimate • All Impact the Quality and Accuracy of the Estimate

  26. International Business • Global Economy • Competitors • Markets • Measurements in SI Units • Monetary Transactions in Multiple Currencies

  27. Currency Exchange • Exchange Rates • Conversion Factors • Constantly Varying • Spot and Future Rates • Rates Obtained from: • Banks, Newspapers, Internet

  28. Strong Dollar Import Goods Cost Less Export Goods Cost More – Lose to Foreign Competition Requires Price Cuts Weak Dollar Expensive Imports Exports Are More Competitive Higher Trade and Budget Deficits Overall – Worse for the U.S. Economy Effects of Exchange Rates

  29. Significant Digits • Addition and Subtraction • Round to 1 Significant Digit to the Right of the Number with the Least Significant Digits • Multiplication and Division • No More Significant Digits than the Number with the Least Significant Digits

  30. Layout of the Book

  31. The Book • Chapter 1 – Introduction • Chapter 2 – Labor Calculations • Chapter 3 – Material Calculations • Chapter 4 – Accounting Practice • Chapter 5 – Statistics and Indexing for Forecasting

  32. The Book • Chapter 6 – Estimating Methods • Chapter 7 – Operation Estimating • Chapter 8 – Product Estimating • Chapter 9 – Cost Analysis • Chapter 10 – Engineering Economy • Chapter 11 – Enterprise and Entrepreneurship

  33. Summary • How the Design Process Works • Where Economic Analyses Fit • How Businesses Are Organized and Compete • The Role of Information • Global Aspects

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