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Design to Cost Challenger
Industrial Profitability: What if your margins are hidden within your product structure?
Design freezes 80% of your costs, while procurement often only has control over the remaining 20%. Yet, many companies only discover the true cost of their product once it hits the production line. By then, it’s already too late.
In industry, weight and complexity carry a price: material, production, transport, and now, your carbon footprint.
Design to Cost (DtC) inverts this paradigm: function dictates geometry.
The approach must be rigorous:
- Budgeting by Function: Each function is assigned a cost target from the very beginning.
- Strategic Trade-offs: Every technical solution is weighed against its feasibility, risks, and financial impact.
- Supplier Co-design: Integrating shop-floor constraints from the very first sketch to align the design with the production tools.
If the cost target isn't met, you iterate. Without compromise.
The real obstacle isn't technological; it’s operational. Moving past "the way we’ve always done it" requires allocating expert resources to challenge the status quo and maintain budgetary discipline throughout the entire development cycle.
In our role as a Design to Cost Challenger, JB Interim leads your engineering projects to identify and capture these untapped profitability potentials.
