Selected Case Studies

Using FACTON’s Product Lifecycle Costing software, Humbel Gear Technology has significantly accelerated and standardized its calculations of their future manufacturing costs. The medium-sized Swiss company is now in a position to react appreciably faster than their competition to request for quotes (RFQ’s) from their customers. Humbel now fulfills the increasing demands of the market for faster and more reliable costing information. The company is also gaining additional competitive advantages by using FACTON’s variant analysis module to determine equally technical and more demanding transmission designs that are more cost efficient. » read more

Reliable cost controlling with FACTON costing solution and FACTON Content, a worldwide production and costing database.

With FACTON costing software, Bentley is able to significantly reduce product cost. For the first time with FACTON, Bentley holds a central database for purchasers and developers which contains reliable and up-to-date costing information. The information in the database provides the company with decisive details regarding “make or buy” and detects savings potential in purchasing. Further savings potential for Bentley is created with the FACTON Content module. The database includes transparent information, comparison values, and benchmarks for all expense factors of product manufacturing worldwide. It enables the purchasing department to evaluate prices independently and thus establishes an excellent basis for negotiating with suppliers.

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Hautau realizes a higher degree of product cost data sharing during the product development process.

By implementing costing software by FACTON, HAUTAU significantly reduces its manufacturing cost. The company detects existing cost drivers at an early stage to optimize product cost. Moreover, employees work with a standard calculation scheme that yields cost traceably. FACTON provides HAUTAU higher quality with cost-saving manufacturing variations. At HAUTAU, such savings start with the small parts. An example is a rivet sub assembly, which is now replaced by a single stamping. In this manner HAUTAU originates products that are not only economically beneficial, but superior in technical development as well.

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With FACTON’s Product Lifecycle Costing Solution, WITTENSTEIN Corporation can early on and quickly identify whether new products can be offered at competitive prices and be sold earning a solid profit. The company has considerably shortened the time-to-market of their innovations by using FACTON^®. Moreover, WITTENSTEIN can monitor their product costs throughout their entire development phase and is able to lower them further. As a result, WITTENSTEIN is enhancing the competitiveness of their products significantly and is expanding their position as leading supplier of modern drive systems. » read more