DESIGN TO COST

Design to Cost methods are used to meet the increasing demand from our clients to generally reduce costs of products all along their life cycle. Such methods allow us to check and analyse costs all over the different phases of concept, control, designing and industrialisation.

More specifically, the reduction of costs in the early phases of concept and development has very effective repercussions on the final price.

Our improved results, aimed at client satisfaction, generally derive from:

- reduction of low value activities and unnecessary costs through forecasts, economic patterns and prevention;

- optimisation of product structures according to the clients’ needs, through a careful study of the final use of products and by avoiding oversizes and non useful functions;

- optimisation of processes by lean thinking strategies;

- study of the real functions according to clients’ needs;

- full integration of internal competences;

- promotion of inter-function teams to follow the whole life cycle of products in all its different aspects.