Mechanical Engineering

"Finding Ways to Win"

Design changes can be costly. Changes are especially costly when they occur late in the product development life cycle. Increasingly, engineers are looked upon to incorporate cost into the early design and concept phases of development.

The silos that exist between design and estimation slow and complicate the organization's objective of driving costs out of the design and impede the engineer's ability to focus on designing the highest quality alternative.

How much more productive would you be if you could...

Focus on creating a quality design without the worry that your design is too expensive?

Compare multiple design alternatives of functionality vs. cost would you be more confident that you were offering the highest value possible?

Easily integrate cost information at the design/concept phases and therefore, bring more profitable products to market faster?

A recent survey conducted by Kadence Business Research discovered that 57% of engineers who are involved in the Concept Definition, Function Analysis, and Task Design phases of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) could increase their personal productivity anywhere from 10%-40% if they could implement a fully automated estimating solution.

TruePlanning allows real time estimating through integration with Computer-Aided-Design (CAD) tools therefore, decreasing the risk of having costly design changes later in the product life cycle.

TruePlanning improves the following cost estimating based processes:
- Design to Cost
- Value Engineering
- Cost/Performance studies
- Total Ownership Cost
- CAIV