Concept to End of Life Cost Engineering

Outsourced cost engineering capability for manufacturers who need better visibility, control, and reduction of product cost without employing a full-time senior cost engineer

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Cost Engineering Follows the Product

Product cost isn't decided once. It's shaped, tested, and challenged at every stage, from the first concept sketch to end of life. Most companies have cost capability at one or two of these points. Few have it consistently from concept through production.

The same costing discipline is needed throughout:

This is what outsourced cost engineering capability gives you: Senior level oversight across that whole chain, brought in at the stage, or stages where you need it most.

  • My approach combines four areas:

    Cost Engineering + Manufacturing Knowledge + Excel / VBA + System Development

What I bring

  • I don't just analyse cost. I understand how things are actually made, and I build the tools and systems that let your own team keep running the discipline after I'm gone.

  • 30+ years of senior cost engineering experience, organised into five areas:

    • Cost Modelling: Parametric, Bottom-up, Should-cost, Target costing, Forecasting

    • Design & Value Engineering: Design-to-cost, DFMA, Value Engineering, Teardown/ Benchmarking

    • Manufacturing Cost Engineering: Labour, Machine costs, Cycle times, Scrap/ Yield, Tooling, Capital

    • Supplier Cost Engineering: RFQ development, Quote vs. Should-cost, Negotiation support

    • Costing Systems & Automation: VBA tools, Cost databases, Automated dashboards, Model governance

Capabilty

Selected results:

  • Electric Vehicles: Established the client’s first credible cost baseline on an escalating EV programme. Generating approximately £15m in savings

  • Automotive: Should-costing and teardown benchmarking delivered 5–10% savings across commodity areas

  • Rail: Should-costing introduced to a market with no prior cost visibility, generated approximately £5m in savings

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If you have a costing challenge, lets talk about it. We can discuss the problem and where I can help.

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