Cost Estimation by DFM Consulting

Information Based Process Independent

Do you have parts or components that are particularly troublesome for cost estimation? New, untried manufacturing processes? Exotic materials that are not yet in full scale production anywhere? Do you need a should-cost for a supplier with a proprietary process? Cost estimates for preliminary designs with little specific data? DFM Consulting cost estimation services can answer your problems quickly.

Information Based

DFM Consulting has shown that the manufacturing cost of aerospace parts is determined primarily by their complexity, in a formal sense. The formal complexity of a part is the information content of its engineering definition or drawing, compressed or assessed by a formal method. DFM Consulting has developed such a method, and, within a particular part type such as frames or cases, the complexity measure typically explains over 80% of the cost.

Process Independent

A major advantage of complexity based cost estimation is that the cost does not depend at all on the manufacturing process. Thus, this approach can estimate the cost of parts when the manufacturing process is still in the laboratory scale or not even determined at all.

Contact DFM Consulting to address your most challenging cost estimation problems.