ProWerk in practice – product
Target cost management on large projects
for the American and Chinese automotive industries
Brief:
Our client is a manufacturer of machining
centres and interlinked production systems with worldwide operations. The
overall cost targets must be safeguarded for tightly budgeted large orders
in the American and Chinese automotive industries with more than 100
interlinked machining systems. Equally important is upholding the deadlines
pledged to the end-customers.
Services:
- Enter all the cost items of large orders
into the Cost Navigator.
- Perform value engineering for the
interlinking.
- Identify new suppliers.
- Draw up suppliers' contracts.
- Incorporate assembly into the development
process.
- Achieve permanent cost transparency with
the costs navigator.
Results:
All costs targets and deadlines were
upheld. After applying the ProWerk methods to one large project, these were
successfully employed on four more large projects.
Time period: a total of 18 months