DFM Concurrent Costing enables real-time analysis of manufacturing costs during the design phase. It helps identify cost-saving opportunities and optimizes designs for better efficiency and affordability.
DFM Concurrent Costing software provides an immediate, thorough understanding of the primary cost drivers associated with manufacturing your product – and establishes a benchmark for what your product “should cost.” Additionally, DFM guides you through an assessment of alternative processes and materials to help you generate various design proposals.
Cost results update automatically as you specify tolerances, surface finishes, and other part details. Gradually, as you choose effective shape-forming processes and consider how to modify part features to lower cost, your product becomes cost optimized.
Thanks to over 40 years of industry experience, DFM consistently provides accurate feedback on the change in cost associated with changes in parts or their design.
Parts that are more expensive to produce than others will always yield higher cost estimates, and the amount of added expense is always correctly portrayed in the DFM results, something that historical pricing and automated CAD analysis cannot do.
Our approach to cost analysis provides superior accuracy because it correctly identifies each step required to manufacture the part and then quantifies each associated cost.
DFM software delivers complete and accurate should-costing capability right out of the box. After installing, you gain immediate access to thousands of potential process, material, and machine combinations.
Should you wish to add additional capabilities, you can easily create new operations and open and edit all of the existing libraries.
Software training only takes a few days and generally results in users being completely self-sufficient in their usage. With DFM, there is no lengthy implementation or expensive customization necessary to begin enhancing your product development process.
DFM complements Design for Assembly (DFA). Engineers use DFA to reduce the assembly labor within a product through the consolidation of single function parts into more elegant, multifunctional designs. The DFM software is then used to help the design engineer quickly compare the costs to produce each alternative design. Used together, the DFM and DFA software give engineers an early cost profile for each product design and provide a basis for planning and decision making. Such analyses, when performed at the earliest stages of concept design, have the potential to greatly influence manufacturing and other life cycle costs before they are solidified and become locked in place.
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D-ESPAT is a “SHOULD COSTING” consulting company . We assist New Product Initiatives with Cost Identification & Reduction Strategies. D-ESPAT is associated with Boothroyd Dewhurst Incorporation, USA, the pioneering principals of the Design For Manufacture & Assembly methodology for their flagship software product DFMA®.