Cost Engineering Capability

Cost engineering isn't one skill. It's a set of disciplines that apply at different stages of product development and production. My capability covers the following areas.

💰 Cost Modelling

Applies from Concept through Production.

• Parametric costing

• Bottom-up costing

• Should-cost models

• Target costing

• Production costing

• Cost forecasting

• Cost-driver analysis

🔧 Design & Value Engineering

Applies from Concept through Industrialisation.

• Design-to-cost

• DFMA (Design for Manufacture & Assembly)

• Value engineering

• Material selection

• Process selection

• Feature costing

• Engineering-change costing

• Teardown / benchmarking

🏭 Manufacturing Cost Engineering

Applies from Industrialise through Production.

• Labour

• Machine costs

• Cycle times

• Materials

• Scrap / yield

• Tooling

• Capital

• Overheads

• Manufacturing routes

🤝 Supplier Cost Engineering

Applies from Source through Product Improvement

• RFQ development

• Supplier quotation analysis

• Supply chain analysis

• Quote vs. should-cost

• Supplier cost breakdown

• Negotiation support

• Supplier benchmarking

• Cost-gap closure

💻 Costing Systems & Automation

Systems and automation can support every stage. My Excel / VBA experience allows me to turn one-off analysis into tools your team can continue to use.

• Costing systems

• Automated calculators

• VBA tools

• Cost databases

• Material /process libraries

• Automated RFQ analysis

• Dashboards & reporting

• Data tables & procedures

• Model governance