Parties strategic management
• Designers on average lose 30% of their time searching for components, sometimes without success. Equally time is taken to recreate existing components with an objective waste of time.
• Each new component set brings real management costs that slow down new products development.
Average costs
70% of the total product costs can be influenced during the development phase
•The greatest savings potential can’t be realized with the purchase prices, but in a much earlier stage.
•By re-use optimizing rate of existing parts and multiplicity parts reducing, product development costs are influenced in a way that isn’t possible at a later date.
Some companies have calculated costs for additional component.
Costs range depending on the industry.
Prevention is better than cure
Prevention
Parts strategic management through automatic classification and dynamic attributes
Investment
medium/low
Implementation
medium
Smart logics
available
Porting to other platforms
easy
Cure
Parts reuse by topological and / or geometrical research strategies.
Investment
medium/high
Implementation
medium
Smart logics
no
Porting to other platforms
difficult