Cost Deployment

from the Perspective of Competitive Advantage

by
Edwin B. Dean

As practiced by the Japanese, cost deployment is a means of allocating target cost to functions, mechanisms, and parts. Akao and Ono (1993) present the latest thinking in Japan. Dean (1995a) reviews the Japanese efforts through 1993. Dean (1995b) reviews parametric cost analysis and proposes that it be used to estimate the cost of functions, mechanisms, and parts, in terms of quality characteristics of the product and the system to bring forth the product.

Cost deployment is one of the four deployments within comprehensive QFD.

References:

Akao, Y. and M. Ono (1993). "Recent Developments in Cost Deployment and QFD in Japan," EOQ-93, Helsingfors, Finland.
Dean, E. B. (1995a). "Cost Deployment," presented at the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the International Society of Parametric Analysts, San Diego CA, 31 May - 2 June.
Dean, E. B. (1995b). "Parametric Cost Deployment," Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium on Quality Function Deployment, Novi MI, 12-13 June.

Bibliographies:

Cost Deployment Bibliography

Cost Technologies | Quality Technologies | Quality Function Deployment | Use

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