ProWerk Cost Navigator
When we take on
an ambitious cost-cutting
project, the ProWerk Cost
Navigator is one of our tools.
The ProWerk Cost Navigator is an
interdisciplinary software tool
which extrapolates the total
cost of manufacture of the
product or plant at every point
during its development.
In contrast to
your business software, e.g.
SAP, the ProWerk Cost Navigator
can even be used when the
cost-savings potential is
especially high, i.e. during the
brainstorming phase and in the
early stages of development. It
is easy to discard a poor idea,
but it is immensely costly and
time-consuming to optimise an
overexpensive prototype.
All personnel involved in development, including external engineering consultants plus the process planning and purchasing departments, feed data on the costs and schedules of the components or subassemblies they handle continuously into the costs navigator. The data undergoes multiple compression and provides the management with an up-to-date overview of the status of the project at all times, and hence enables intervention at an early stage in the event of erroneous developments.
The costs navigator
remains active as a
monitoring tool until
your cost accounting
personnel can add this
process to your business
software.