INDUSTRIAL AND R&D DEPARTMENT
For several decades the industry has sought operational excellence to reduce direct costs as much as possible. To contemplate the future with confidence, it is now necessary to project oneself into a global vision of the margin on full costs , thus integrating indirect costs, and on the optimization of the value / cost ratio .
It is our conviction and our reason for being; this is the reason why we have developed unique tools and recognized expertise to support our customers in their product development and their strategic industrial decisions.
This expertise is found at different levels:
Costing of parts and implementation of complete cost models
The implementation of optimization approaches (design to cost, operational optimization)
Cost simulation based on market and internal assumptions
In addition to this, you need to know more about it.
Cost engineering
COSTING
YOUR GOALS
Estimate the cost of products, parts or services to guide design and buyers
Have an estimate of the cost of a component or product before quoting suppliers for a constructive collaboration
Estimate the cost of a product to guide technical choices
Quickly realize a realistic estimate of the full cost of a product to respond to a request for quotation
OUR EXPERTISE
Mastery of parametric and analytical tools
Valoptia.CER: parametric tool allowing to determine by a statistical approach cost estimation formulas from similar products
Cleopatra: cost formalization and consolidation tool making it possible to manage project or product costs simply and in collaborative mode, to share the experience acquired, to secure costing and to manage evolutions and changes
Techniquote: analytical tool allowing to define a production range (machine model, time) from a 3D plan for machined parts
YOUR DELIVERY
A reliable objective cost in a few minutes or a few hours
To buy at the right price
To provide a realistic price to a prospect
To arbitrate between several design options
INDUSTRIAL COST MODELS
YOUR GOALS
Manage your
margins
Have a full cost model representative of the reality on the ground
Know and adjust your margins by product, by sales channel
Identify opportunities to optimize direct and indirect costs in the short, medium and long term
Compare the expected results of the progress plans
OUR EXPERTISE
A proven, industrialized and tooled approach
Experience in the field to avoid the pitfalls of the “factory to
gas'A pragmatic approach based on the tools in place and the data available
An iterative approach to involve teams and avoid the tunnel effect
YOUR DELIVERY
A lively and collaborative analysis model
Full valued costs, formatted for sharing adapted to the different levels of the company
Clear mapping of costs and causal relationships between charges and products sold
Enhanced and shared performance indicators to complete your operational management system
A simplified budget construction, making it possible to apply "business" assumptions to services and activities
INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE DIAGNOSIS
YOUR GOALS
Identify your strengths and weaknesses in a few days
Map expenses by function and activity
Compare your performance with the standards and best practices of other industrial players
Identify relevant improvement projects
OUR EXPERTISE
A pragmatic and efficient field approach
A proven approach combining quantitative and qualitative analyzes of the main functions
Purchases
Production
R&D Product
Industrial investment management
Economic management (direct costs, full costs)
Consultants with more than 20 years of experience in the industrial world, who master both technical, economic and financial issues
YOUR DELIVERY
Concrete and profitable proposals
State of play in terms of maturity by major function
Proposal of action plans and associated objectives
A simplified budget construction, making it possible to apply "business" assumptions to services and activities
Competitiveness projects
DESIGN TO COST PRODUCT
YOUR GOALS
Improve the margin
Develop faster products and services that better meet customer needs, at lower cost
Create value and differentiate yourself from the competition
OUR EXPERTISE
An innovative and proven approach, equipped and controlled until implementation
20 years of success in multiple fields with strong and varied constraints:
Regulatory (medical, aeronautical, military,
nuclear …)High volume, low unit margin, high automation (automotive, telecom, etc.)
Continuous flow process industry
Low volume (mechanical welding of large parts, energy and large projects)
Pragmatic and results-oriented implementation of classic methods (detailed technical analysis, value analysis) and innovative (systemic modeling having received CIR approval)
YOUR DELIVERY
Improving the quality, increasing the value, reducing the costs of your products and services
Costs reduced from 10% to 30%
Improved time to market
INVEST TO COST
YOUR GOALS
Maximize return on investment
Reduce the full cost (initial investment cost and recurring operating costs) of a new factory, new production line or turnkey solution
Guarantee strict compliance with the implementation and commissioning deadlines
OUR EXPERTISE
The transposition of Design to Cost to projects, unit productions and process industries
Experience of Cost House consultants and an “Invest to Cost” methodological framework make it possible to activate additional competitiveness levers compared to traditional approaches
Long-lasting results in multiple areas with strong and varied constraints:
Regulatory (transport, aeronautics, nuclear, etc.)
Production lines for process industries
New industrial sites
A pragmatic approach that combines traditional methods (detailed technical analysis, value analysis) and innovative (systemic modeling having received CIR approval)
YOUR DELIVERY
An investment that meets the right needs on time
Reduction of investment costs by 20 to 40% and operating costs by 5 to 15%
Compliance with implementation date objectives
OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE
YOUR GOALS
Sustainably improve your operating margin
Act where it pays off
Achieve measurable results
OUR EXPERTISE
Proven methods serving a global vision of costs and their drivers
A great mastery of the most effective methods (lean, 6 sigma, theory of constraints, ...) to use only those which are relevant and adapt them to your environment
For our consultants, principles and theory fade away in favor of the sustainable implementation of practicable methods for your teams
YOUR DELIVERY
The right solution in the right place at the right time
A rapid operational diagnosis compared to your cost structure in order to determine the applicable methods and their ROI
The choice, in partnership, of the methods to be implemented together, as well as the definition of indicators to monitor their implementation and obtain the expected gains
Tracking real earnings
Strategic planning and management
ECONOMIC SIMULATIONS FOR INDUSTRIAL PLAN
YOUR GOALS
Manage the unexpected
Simulate alternative solutions to achieve your goals by optimizing resource consumption
You rely on structured and justified data to find sometimes counter-intuitive answers to the challenges of your economic environment
Frame and manage your industrial plans in the short and medium term
OUR EXPERTISE
A tooled approach to overcome tedious calculations and focus on qualitative and quantitative analyzes
Assimilation of your technical and economic constraints
Confrontation of customer and operational visions
Definition and valuation of a representative cost model adapted to the needs of the simulation
Simulation without prejudice of many scenarios
Objective comparison of the different plans considered
YOUR DELIVERY
Confidence in your strategic directions
Full provision of cost and simulation models to sustain them internally
Reports in a Data Visualization tool allowing a simple representation of large and complex data
An objective and reasoned report on the various plans envisaged to justify, secure and manage your strategic orientations
THE TOOLS
Activity Based Costing
Full costs of products and services
Cost simulation
Activity Based Costing
Management of action plans
Cost Estimating Relationship
Cost estimation functions
Project and Product Costing
Costing of mechanical components
