Optimize your cost and carbon management.

01 Analyze everything

What is the smartest way to meet your targets on cost and sustainability? All of them.

From requirements analysis, to functional benchmarking, hard-/software architecture improvements, function-cost analysis, value analysis & value engineering, design to cost & carbon on component level, and more, our Cost & Carbon Engineers use every trick in the book to ensure your bases are beyond covered.

02 Evaluate Design

Agile product development processes are required to meet extremely tight deadlines and functional or legal requirements—before even factoring in cost & carbon targets. So leave that part to us.

Our Cost & Carbon Engineers can carry out the assessment of multiple product concepts using the Tset software, keeping your product concept timeline on schedule.

03 Optimize Production

All of our Cost & Carbon Engineers rely on decades of industry experience in dedicated technological fields (e.g. castings, forgings, machining, plastics, electronics, and more). We’re able to provide best practice, calculations in greenfield/brownfield approaches for all materials and manufacturing technologies of the automotive and manufacturing industries.

04 Increase Profitability

We provide you with optimization ideas in three different fields depending on the application and product lifetime:

1. Function of the component and re-design to cost & carbon targets.

2. Manufacturability of the component and manufacturability of the component and re-design to lower manufacturing/assembly costs.(e.g. manufacturing concepts, machines and tooling concepts, cycle times).

3. Commercial competitiveness and cost structure optimization (e.g. factor costs, machine hourly rates, labor intensity and hourly rates, overheads/profits).

All optimization ideas are evaluated for implementation feasibility and the cost & carbon impact and interaction.

05 Realize Targets

To ensure that cost & carbon targets are met, design, manufacturing and cost structure optimizations are translated into action plans and implemented throughout the value chain. Our Cost & Carbon Engineers support our customers in the preparation, communication and execution of cost & carbon negotiations and implementation agreements within both the supplier network and in-house manufacturing.