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Cost Models for Your Use - Download models and determine your vehicle costs
As part of conducting the research and demonstration that surrounded the ULSAB-AVC (Advanced Vehicle Technologies), UltraLight Steel Auto Closures (ULSAC) and UltraLight Steel Auto Body (ULSAB) programmes, cost assessments were completed to estimate the manufacturing cost of the concepts these programmes presented to the automotive community. These valuable tools are available here for your free use.
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Steel for Afordable vehicles
In automotive structural applications, material selection is a critical factor in addressing cost. Data from a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study Process Cost Modelling: Strategic Engineering-Economic Evaluation of Materials Technologies and related cost models (soon available at this website) identify competitive materials, such as aluminium, to be at a significant cost disadvantage for all aspects of the body-in-white manufacturing process.
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Process Cost Modeling: Strategic Engineering and Economic Evaluation of Materials Technologies
Frank Field, Randolph Kirchain, and Richard Roth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reprinted here by permission of the Journal of Manufacturing, summarizes the conceptual limitations in understanding cost that need to be overcome
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