Get Early Visibility into Product Cost
Industry Challenges:
- Manufacturers are facing constant pressure of consistently innovating new products and remaining cost competitive at the same time
- OEMs are focusing on removing inefficiencies and costs from all stages of the product life-cycle to improve profitability and shrinking operating margins
- Design engineers do not have softwares/tools available with them which can provide early visibility to manufacturing and cost consequences for their design decisions
- Downstream manufacturing changes or cost issues are very expensive to handle
- 70% cost reduction opportunities are in design phase
DFMPro for Creo Parametric Cost Add-on
Emerging trend in industry is to reduce product cost at design stage
- 70% of the product cost is determined at the design stage and optimized designs have better impact on reducing overall product cost
- Identifying optimum design alternatives at early stage helps to reduce cost of the product
- Capturing best practices from previous cost estimates and historical designs and using them in early design validation can help create cost effective designs
DFMPro Cost Addon
DFMPro Cost:
DFMPro cost add-on provides early cost visibility to design engineers right from when designs are getting created.
Key features:
- Integrated inside CAD system
- No switching between applications – Click of a button get quick feedback for manufacturing cost
- Read 3D CAD data with Geometry & PMI information (Tolerances) and use it for cost estimation
- Highlight features like holes, pockets, ribs, bosses etc and quickly identify geometric cost drivers directly on 3D model
- Helps to focus on cost
reduction
- Breakup of material cost and process cost – avoid over processing of material & maintain ‘buy to fly’ ratio
- Understand cost impact of manufacturability issues and take corrective action immediately
- Evaluate design alternatives like materials, geometry features and manufacturing processes
- Easy to configure &
deploy
- Configure material rates, work center rates and labor rates quickly
- Cost modeler : Create and edit own cost model as pre your organization requirements
- Create custom Cost templates based on department or teams
- Uses commonly used MSSQL database
- Track and target cost
during easy stages of design
- Configure target cost for key components and provide feedback to design team for cost escalation
- Cost trend indicator shows impact of design change for directional costing
- Generate and check in reports in PLM system to keep track of cost across lifecycle