Using Costimator OEM cost estimation software and was wondering how people were setting up the databases (work centers, material, etc.) and what kind of results they were achieveing with the software?
Society of Manufacturing Engineers (www.sme.org) is a good place to start and amazingly enough so is AIAA as a number of new technologies hitting the mainstream are from aerospace and military funded research.
tyroneortiz,
I think Bill hit it on the head; review your inventory stock list and perform a visual count of stock. Verify usage on the production floor (material scrap, part rejects, etc.) and relate it back to the raw stock count.
You may find that you have unreported usage of stock...
Thanks for the reply.
The intent is looking at the cost of tooling at a marco level, in other words if someone were to look at stamping a component of x by y size, tooling could run anywhere from $10-$15K, and so on.
At the micro level, we have the detail covered for processes that we normally...
What would you like to know about Costimator? I'm a current user of the software and have found it to be quite flexible in mapping processes and identifying critical cost items.
