Elements of designing for costDuring recent history in the United States, government systems development has been performance driven. As a result, systems within a class have experienced exponentially increasing cost over time in fixed year dollars. Moreover, little emphasis has been placed on reducing cost. This paper defines designing for cost and presents several tools which, if used in the engineering process, offer the promise of reducing cost. Although other potential tools exist for designing for cost, this paper focuses on rules of thumb, quality function deployment, Taguchi methods, concurrent engineering, and activity-based costing. Each of these tools has been demonstrated to reduce cost if used within the engineering process.
Document ID
19920050611
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Dean, Edwin B. (NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Unal, Resit (Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA, United States)