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Design to Cost

Design to Cost is a team-approach to increase the fraction Quality / Cost driven by a moderator through a precise Job Plan with specific emphasis on Functional Analysis and Creativity.

Design to Cost embodies:

• A Working Team with representatives of all services involved in the product design (e.g. Conception, Manufacturing, Marketing, Buying, Methods, ...), plus a specialist of cost evaluation (Accounting, ...).
• A six phase Job Plan:
  ORIENTATION ->
  INFORMATION ->
  SPECULATION (CREATIVITY) ->
  EVALUATION ->
  PLANNING ->
  IMPLEMENTATION
  (Each of these six phases follow precisely designed patterns)