Cost objective PLM and CE

Nicolas Perry (1) , Alain Bernard (1)

1 IRCCyN - Institut de Recherche en Communications et en Cybernétique de Nantes

Concurrent engineering taking into account product life-cycle factors seems to be one of the industrial challenges of the next years. Cost estimation and management are two main strategic tasks that imply the possibility of managing costs at the earliest stages of product development. This is why it is indispensable to let people from economics and from industrial engineering collaborates in order to find the best solution for enterprise progress for economical factors mastering. The objective of this paper is to present who we try to adapt costing methods in a PLM and CE point of view to the new industrial context and configuration in order to give pertinent decision aid for product and process choices. A very important factor is related to cost management problems when developing new products. A case study is introduced that presents how product development actors have referenced elements to product life-cycle costs and impacts, how they have an idea bout economical indicators when taking decisions during the progression of the project of product development.

Domaines: Génie mécanique [physics.class-ph]; Génie mécanique [physics.class-ph]; Pricing [q-fin.PR]; Ingénierie assistée par ordinateur

Nicolas Perry, Alain Bernard. Cost objective PLM and CE. Ricardo Jardim-Goncalves, Jianzhong Chia, Adolfo Steiger-Garcao. Concurrent Engineering 2003: the Vision for the Future Generation in Research and Applications, A. A. Balkema Publishers, p.817-822, 2003. ⟨hal-00540010⟩