Concept to End of Life Cost Engineering

Outsourced cost engineering capability for manufacturers who need better visibility, control, and reduction of product cost —without employing a full-time senior cost engineer

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Cost Engineering Follows the Product

Product cost isn't decided once. It's shaped, tested, and defended at every stage — from the first concept sketch to end of life. Most companies have cost capability at one or two of these points. Few have it consistently, end to end.

Underneath every stage, the same discipline applies:

This is what outsourced cost engineering capability gives you: senior-level oversight across that whole chain, brought in at the point — or points — you need it most.

  • Four things, combined — which is rarer than any one of them alone:

    Cost Engineering + Manufacturing Knowledge + Excel/VBA + System Development

    I don't just analyse cost. I understand how things are actually made, and I build the tools and systems that let your own team keep running the discipline after I'm gone.

What I bring

  • 30+ years of senior cost engineering experience, organised into five areas:

    • Cost Modelling — parametric, bottom-up, should-cost, target costing, forecasting

    • Design & Value Engineering — design-to-cost, DFMA, value engineering, teardown/benchmarking

    • Manufacturing Cost Engineering — labour, machine costs, cycle times, scrap/yield, tooling, capital

    • Supplier Cost Engineering — RFQ development, quote vs. should-cost, negotiation support

    • Costing Systems & Automation — VBA tools, cost databases, automated dashboards, model governance

Capabilty

  • Electric Vehicles: First credible cost baseline established for client on an escalating EV programme — approximately £15m in savings

  • Automotive: Should-costing and teardown benchmarking delivered 5–10% savings across commodity areas

  • Rail: Should-costing introduced to a market with no prior cost visibility — approximately £5m in savings

Proof, not promises :

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No pressure, no obligation — just a focused discussion about where cost engineering could help your business.

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