Design to Cost (New Dimensions In Engineering Series)
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How to accurately estimate, in advance, the cost of producing products or services by means of the design-to-cost method, which systematically constrains design goals according to available funds. This book shows how to use value engineering, cost estimating, and cost control to devise, and adhere to, realistic cost goals. Touches on techniques from management methods to specific engineering approaches, and provides actual case studies of projects and services that have now become affordable through the application of the design-to-cost method.
The publisher, John Wiley & Sons
How to accurately estimate, in advance, the cost of producing products or services by means of the design-to-cost method, which systematically constrains design goals according to available funds. This book shows how to use value engineering, cost estimating, and cost control to devise, and adhere to, realistic cost goals. Touches on techniques from management methods to specific engineering approaches, and provides actual case studies of projects and services that have now become affordable through the application of the design-to-cost method.
Design to Cost (New Dimensions In Engineering Series),Jack V. Michaels,William P. Wood,Wiley-Interscience,0471609005,Corporate Finance,Cost control,Costs, Industrial,Engineering Economics,Engineering design,General,Science,Science/Mathematics,Technology & Industrial Arts,Business & Economics / Corporate Finance,Management & management techniques,Technology: General Issues
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