Concurrent Cost Estimation as a Tool for Enhanced Producibility : System Development and Applicability for Producibility Studies

• The paper aims at presenting the thoughts behind concurrent cost estimation as a tool for engineering companies to obtain enhanced producibility for their products by the possibility of performing producibility studies. The two main parts of the paper are: the presentation of a method for system development, focusing on a number of general criteria of system development; and how such a system can act as a support in the product development process by providing the possibility of performing different types of producibility studies.

Keyword

Design for Producibility

Cost Estimation

Design Automation

System Development

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