Manufacturing Cost Modelling for Electrical Interconnections

The cost of manufacturing a product must be estimated accurately at the concept design stage to help decision making. Examples of such decisions are the economic feasibility of a product and the economic trade-offs between alternative designs. An accurate estimating technique would include the cost of materials and all activities that incur cost. Presents a number of cost models for the manufacturing cost for an electrical interconnect design. All activities and material usage are allocated into three bases; unit-level cost, batch-level cost and product-level cost. The unit product cost is the summation of these three costs. An example is presented to show the application of the cost models developed.