A design to cost method for electric cable harness
Year: 2017
Editor: Anja Maier, Stanko Škec, Harrison Kim, Michael Kokkolaras, Josef Oehmen, Georges Fadel, Filippo Salustri, Mike Van der Loos
Author: Mandolini, Marco; Cicconi, Paolo; Castorani, Vincenzo; Vita, Alessio; Germani, Michele
Series: ICED
Institution: Universitŕ Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Section: Design for X, Design to X
Page(s): 365-374
ISBN: 978-1-904670-93-3
ISSN: 2220-4342
Abstract
The Design to Cost method is a well-known methodology for developing cost-competitive products. In the context where the Industry 4.0 initiative is pushing the research on innovative systems for data exchange and analysis, the electric aspect of a product is becoming more and more important. The scientific and industrial literature contains several methods and tools for the cost estimation of electric cable harness, but they essentially calculate the cost by simply considering the Bill of Material and computing the cost of the raw material. The installation cost is not considered. The paper presents a Design to Cost method for electric cable harness, based on the analytic cost analysis of the raw material and routing process. The inputs of such a method are the electric Bill of Material and the 3D path of the cable harness. The cost consists of three items: purchasing, installation and cutting. The method, once implemented within a prototype software tool, has been applied for the cost optimization of the electric cable harness of an on-shore module for power generation. The average accuracy, measured comparing the results with experimental data, was 10.5%.
Keywords: Design costing, Design to X, Industrial design, Electric cable harness