Concurrent cost estimation as a tool for enhanced producibility - System development and applicability for producibility studies

The paper aims at presenting the thoughts behind concurrent cost estimation as a tool for engineering companies to obtain enhanced producibility for their products by the possibility of performing producibility studies. The two main parts of the paper are: the presentation of a method for system development, focusing on a number of general criteria of system development; and how such a system can act as a support in the product development process by providing the possibility of performing different types of producibility studies. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.