Coffee Maker Cost Estimation Using SEER for Manufacturing
The department of Industrial Management & Systems Engineering at West Virginia University used SEER for Manufacturing (formerly SEER-DFM) to determine the costs of an off the shelf coffee maker and identified potential cost savings by redesigning for manufacturability. This is one of the strengths of SEER-MFG: the ability to understand costs of a design and determine ways to reduce product costs. One group was able to reduce costs from $21.25 to $11.53. They found that:
“SEER is an estimation and analysis application that lets you identify, evaluate and manage the complex array of cost, labor, assembly, process, part design, material and production variables that effect manufacturing operations from its most comprehensive knowledge base” and that “it is used to facilitate proactive real time cost impact assessments of commodity design alternatives in today’s global sourcing environment.”
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