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Obtaining prices for unknown proprietary material compositions, such as powder metals,<br />

necessitated a standardized industry approach. In these cases, manufacturers and<br />

industry market research firms are consulted to provide generic pricing formulas and<br />

pricing trends. Their price formulas are balanced against published market trends of<br />

similar materials to establish new pricing trends.<br />

Resin formulations are also available with a variety of fillers and filler content. Some<br />

pricing data is available for specific formulations; however, pricing is not published for<br />

every variation. This variation is significant since many manufacturers can easily tailor<br />

resin filler type and content to serve the specific application. Consequently, the database<br />

has been structured to group resins with a common filler into ranges of filler content. For<br />

example, glass filled Nylon 6 is grouped into three (3) categories: 0 to 15 percent glass<br />

filled, 30 to 35 percent glass filled, and 50 percent glass filled, each with their own price<br />

point. These groupings provide a single price point as the price differential within a<br />

group (0 to 15 percent glass filled) is not statistically significant<br />

C.4.2.4 In-process Scrap<br />

In-process scrap is defined as the raw material mass, beyond the final part weight,<br />

required to manufacture a component. For example, in an injection molded part, the inprocess<br />

scrap is typically created from the delivery system of the molten plastic into the<br />

part cavity (e.g., sprue, runners and part gate). This additional material is trimmed off<br />

following part injection from the mold. In some cases, dependent on the material and<br />

application, a portion of this material can be ground up and returned into the virgin<br />

material mix.<br />

In the case of screw machine parts, the in-process scrap is defined as the amount of<br />

material removed from the raw bar stock in the process of creating the part features.<br />

Generally, material removed during the various machining processes is sold at scrap<br />

value. Within this cost analysis study, no considerations were made to account for<br />

recovering scrap costs.<br />

A second scrap parameter accounted for in the cost analysis is end-item scrap. End-item<br />

scrap is captured as a cost element within mark-up and will be discussed in more detail<br />

within the mark-up database section, Section C.4.5. Although it is worth reiterating here<br />

that in-process scrap only covers the additional raw material mass required for<br />

manufacturing a part, it does not include an allowance for quality defects, rework costs<br />

and/or destructive test parts. These costs are covered by the end-item scrap allowance.<br />

C.4.2.5 Purchase Parts – Commodity Parts<br />

In the quote assumption section of the CBOM, parts are identified as either “make” or<br />

“buy.” The “make” classification indicates a detailed quote is required for the applicable<br />

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