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1. Design Objective 2. Distributed Optimization 3. Identify Alternatives 4. Group the Changes |
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Design for the Marketplace technology can reduce the cost of products already in production?typically by 20% on aerospace systems. That is, if your aircraft costs $50 million today, we can find design changes that will reduce the cost to about $40 million. How? By the following four step process:
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The first step is to determine the right balance of performance, reliability and life cycle cost that maximizes customer value while minimizing manufacturing cost. Design for the Marketplace technology provides the unique capability of mathematically quantifying your Design Objective.
The design objective for the overall system is next decomposed into component objective functions, which point the way to optimally balancing performance and cost for each component.
Working with your design engineers, DFM Consulting will identify design alternatives that improve the balance of performance and cost. Some will increase cost, but more than make up for the cost with improved performance. Most will reduce cost with some change in performance. The net result is equal or better performance at substantially reduced cost.
To identify these changes, your designers will need a reliable method of estimating the cost impact. DFM Consulting's cost modeling technology is an important asset.
Many of your costs are set by your supplier's prices. However, this search will find design changes that are so attractive to your suppliers that they will generally agree to price reductions in order to adopt the lower cost design.
Finally, the design improvements are packaged into groups that can be executed together, minimizing recertification testing and accommodating your product improvement investment budget.
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