In today's hypercompetitive global marketplace, accurate costestimating is crucial to bottom-line results. Nowhere is this moreevident than in the design and de

A unique collection of time standards, manufacturing methods, and overall `rules of thumb' used for cost-estimating electronic equipment and systems. As the onl

Provides single-source coverage on the full range of activities that meet the manufacturing engineering process, including management, product and process desig

Revised and updated introduction, useful as a reference source for engineers and managers or as a text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in tec

How to accurately estimate, in advance, the cost of producing products or services by means of the design-to-cost method, which systematically constrains design