Cost Tracking Over Time

 

Are My Parts/Products Getting Less Expensive?

This example helps engineering teams track analysis (cost, manufacturability and sustainability) of designs over time.

 

  • Quickly evaluate the cost/design trends of a project's components – are you improving?

  • Identify design related cost increases early in the product development process.

  • Build a should cost culture in engineering through review of cost and manufacturability concerns in each phase-gate review.

 

Part Cost Trend AD – History Report Inside aP Design

The History report shows an engineer or engineering management the cost trend of a particular component: part, sub-assembly (and its parts), top-level assembly, and so on, over a particular period for all the iterations of that specific scenario.

You can display both trends for piece part cost or fully burden cost, and, cost of material, tooling CO2 footprint, and even DFM rating for each iteration of that part.

 

Tip: Hover over the info icon on the left-hand side panels to see what changes were made in each iteration. This applies to parts only, not assemblies, as changes could have been made for parts inside the assembly and not the assembly itself.

Plotting Multiple Trends

You can plot two trends at the same time. For example, you can see PPC and DFM risk, or PPC and Tooling Cost, FBC and Material Cost.

To display these trends on your aP Design window, for the component that is currently in session:

  1. Click on the History icon.

  2. Then select what you want to display to observe how you are progressing in the design of this component.:

Tip: You can open one of the parts in this assembly and run the same trend.

Review Trends across Scenario Groups

To review cost avoidance trends across a group of scenarios:

  1. Navigate to aP Analytics and run the Automated Cost Avoidance Report:

    In this case, you have greatly reduced the cost of your assembly over time but almost doubled the carbon footprint. However, you can see that up to iteration 4 your cost was going down and your CO2 footprint was still low.

 

  1. Finally, click the download icon to download this as an image to include in a report.