Light Duty Technology Cost Analysis, Power - US Environmental ...
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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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