Typical Check List For Cost Reduction

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Typical Check List for Cost Reduction

1. Number of parts
a. Can you reduce the number of parts?
b. Is there any possibility that you can reduce costs by increasing the number of parts?

2. Shape
a. Can you make it smaller?
b. Can you make it lighter?
c. Can you make it simpler and more standardized?
d. Is there any different shape that makes it easy to process?
e. Is it suitable for the next process to produce?
f. Is it a suitable shape to increase yield ratio?

3. Materials
a. Can you change quality of materials?
b. Can you get more inexpensive materials?
c. Is it easy to process?

4. Surface treatment
a. Is it suitable surface treatment?
b. Is surface heat treatment suitable enough?

5. Accuracy
a. Is it easy to achieve given accuracy?
b. Is it more accurate than expected?

6. Processing and assembling


a. Can you manage more units of machines?
b. Can you integrate production processes?
c. Can you save more production time?
d. Can you reduce number of Kosuu?
e. Can you save set-up time?
f. Is it an optimal lot size?
g. Can you speed up more?
7. Equipment
a. Can you make it smaller?
b. Do you have more inexpensive equipment?
c. Can you make it automatic?

8. Models
a. Can you make it smaller?
b. Can you make it simpler?
c. Is the quality of materials good enough?
d. Does it take advantage of old models?

9. Workers
a. Do you have an ineffective movement?
b. Is the work force optimal?
c. Is the work process standardized?

10. Inspection and shipping


a. Is the defect rate high?
b. Do you have useless shipping?

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