Inputs required
Technical definition and demand · Process route and yield assumptions · Supplier quotations where available · Labor, equipment, quality and logistics context
Cost Engineering
A quotation should be explainable.
Useful cost work connects geometry, material, process route, tooling, labor, quality controls, capacity, logistics and risk. It does not start and end with a supplier price.
The problem
What this solves.
Cost pressure is visible, but the product, process and operating choices behind the cost are not sufficiently understood to support action.
When to call
Call for should-cost, make-versus-buy, quotation review, design-to-cost, sourcing strategy, capital tradeoffs or total-cost decisions.
How work is verified
The model is reconciled to observable process, material and commercial evidence, with assumptions and uncertainty made explicit.
Execution
What SharpSigma does.
The work follows the specific requirement—not a generic checklist. Each step produces an output that can be reviewed and verified.
- Build a process-based cost structure.
- Challenge material, cycle, yield, tooling and inspection assumptions.
- Connect design choices to producibility and cost drivers.
- Evaluate make, buy and hybrid routes with risk.
- Define savings hypotheses without presenting unverified results as achieved.
Evidence in, evidence out
Inputs and deliverables.
Scope follows the requirement. These are the typical inputs needed to begin and the outputs expected at closure.
Deliverables
Transparent cost model · Cost-driver and sensitivity analysis · Make-versus-buy decision record · Design or process opportunities · Validation plan for commercial assumptions
Bring us the challenge.
Tell us what is happening, what you already know, and what the result needs to be.