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Typical Check List For Cost Reduction
Typical Check List For Cost Reduction
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?
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?