Half Cost Products consulting

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by Dr. David M. Anderson, P.E., fASME, CMC
e-mail: anderson@build-to-order-consulting.com

See the Half Cost Products strategy at www.HalfCostProducts.com

Dr. Anderson helps each client formulate a strategy based on an optimal balance of the techniques cited in the Half Cost Products article and then provides specific consulting and training to achieve the half-cost goal.

Half-Cost Design Studies

Half-cost products depend on breakthrough concepts. Sometimes these come from the brainstorming sessions that Dr. Anderson facilitates in workshops (above). More challenging endeavors may need his concept studies in which he generates breakthrough ideas, which concurrent engineering teams can then develop into manufacturable products. Dr. Anderson is particularly effective for complex products that could benefit from simplified concepts, clever architecture, easy-to-build structures, and ingenious ways of control and guide part motions.

In his 35 years of design work he has done innovative design studies for:

Reducing cost and material usage for large parts, as described in his new Cost and Steel Reduction Workshop
Light-weight frames for working vehicles
Structural trusses and 3D space-frames that can be quickly and inexpensively fabricated and assembled
Low-cost linkages and mechanisms (with leading leading-edge expertise starting with his Doctorate thesis followed by 4 issued patents).
Half-cost solar trackers
Flexure pivots for low-cost, clean, dust-free, quiet, and non-wearing hinges and joints.
Low-cost ultra-clean material handling devices
Flexible tooling that can accept any part in a family without setup delays (based on seven years experience at his company, Anderson Automation Inc. which built special production machinery and tooling).
Ultra-low cost (near-zero cost) housing and emergency shelters
Half-cost High-Speed Rail system

Call to discuss challenges and opportunities or fill out the form on the home page:

Dr. David M. Anderson, P.E., CMC
Management Consultant
www.design4manufacturability.com
phone: 1-805-924-0100 (Pacific Time Zone)
fax: 1-805-924-0200
e-mail: anderson@build-to-order-consulting.com

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