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PLM–EPC Integration – Connecting Design and Costs

FACTON — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 11:52:52 GMT

Explore the Transformative Benefits of Integrating PLM and EPC

In product development, up to 80% of total costs are determined before production even begins. Yet, many companies still struggle with fragmented data, manual cost tracking, and late cost transparency.

Our white paper reveals how integrating Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Enterprise Product Costing (EPC) creates a seamless flow of information between engineering, costing, and management — enabling faster, data-driven, and more profitable decisions from day one.

Key Takeaways

Achieve early cost control by synchronizing data automatically between PLM and EPC systems.
Eliminate manual effort and data silos with one unified source of truth across all departments.
Strengthen cross-functional collaboration between engineering, costing, and management teams.
Make informed design-to-cost decisions that improve profitability from the earliest stages.
Accelerate time-to-market with integrated, real-time workflows and transparent cost data.

Target Audience

This white paper is designed for engineering leaders, cost engineers, and decision-makers in manufacturing who aim to align technical innovation with economic performance and strengthen cost transparency across the entire product lifecycle.

Video on Demand: Tool Cost Calculation_mido_Teraport_EN

FACTON — Tue, 27 May 2025 09:57:38 GMT

Tool cost integration for enterprise-wide cost transparency

In today's competitive manufacturing environment, speed and accuracy in cost calculation are crucial—especially in the tool and mold-making industry. By linking tool cost information from geometry-based costing, companies close the gap between technical tool data and enterprise-wide cost transparency.

In the webinar video, we illustrate the process of calculating tool costs using 3D part data in mido, integrating these costs and additional technical data into FACTON EPC to enhance tooling cost transparency, and leveraging tool costs as a strategic investment to assess project profitability within FACTON EPC.

Speaker

Raphael Heilig, Managing Director / Owner, Teraport
Tino Riedel, Senior Product Manager, FACTON

About Teraport

Teraports software development specializes in solutions that minimize cost risks in product development. Using a "best-in-class" software approach, Teraport helps ensure the quality standards of its customers' products during product development.

Efficient cost engineering through automation

FACTON — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:40:14 GMT

Automated cost planning with FACTON EPC & Synera

In the manufacturing industry, time is a decisive competitive factor. However, manual calculations and inefficient processes cost valuable resources. In our webinar, we will show you how you can use FACTON EPC and Synera to capture the know-how of cost engineering experts and automate recurring costing tasks with a scalable system. Increase the value of your products by automating costing and focusing on cost reduction initiatives, benchmarking, negotiations, and Design-2-Cost.

What to expect in the webinar video
This video will show you how to calculate individual parts or technologies by extracting key drawing parameters from CAD and PLM systems. It will also show you how to manage the automatic calculation of parts and components using established cost models.

✔ Automated workflows - efficient costing with low-code technologies
✔ Seamless integration - linking FACTON EPC with Synera for optimized CAD-to-cost processes
✔ Practical demo - insight into a best practice use case

Learn from Ralf Altpeter (FACTON) and Dr. Moritz Maier (Synera) how to take your cost and value engineering to the next level and focus more on cost reduction initiatives, negotiations, and Design-2-Cost.

📺 Watch now for free!

Boost your cost engineering w/ 3D CAD integration

FACTON — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 09:40:25 GMT

Bring your cost engineering to the next level!

Cost engineering faces an extensive and time-consuming decision-making process to actively manage and optimize product costs. Engineers spend a lot of time gathering information from meetings, drawings, and benchmark data and using various tools. Media disruptions and a lack of data integration lead to avoidable errors in the cost assessment of productions.

FACTON EPC and automation platforms such as Synera support rapid cost estimation based on 3D CAD integration. Low-code and open platforms enable cost engineers to automate costing processes with "out-of-the-box" workflows - without extensive programming. Cost-side effects due to changes in cycle time and product quantities can be quickly recorded via the workflow and the decision-making process for optimizing production costs can be accelerated.

Learn in our webinar:

What are the challenges for cost engineering and procurement?
Why is an automated process in cost engineering necessary?
How can cost estimation be automated to ensure speed and repeatability in cost engineering?
How do you integrate FACTON EPC cost models in your costing robot?

This webinar is aimed at all Cost Engineers, Design Engineers, and Purchasers who want to navigate flexibly through the cost nodes in product development and purchasing, create costing workflows, and easily observe costing effects on changes in product design and manufacturing processes.

Webinar: Bridging Sustainability and Cost-Effectiveness

FACTON — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 16:30:27 GMT

Empower your business with sustainable, reliable, data-driven product decisions.

For companies in the supply chain, it's crucial to showcase the environmental impact of their products, including the amount of emissions generated during manufacturing. However, lack of transparency, standardization, and automation hinder the timely delivery of product carbon footprint in the supply chain and corporate reporting.

Discover an effortless way to calculate your product costs and transparently determine the product's carbon footprint along the costing structure.

Working with sustamize, FACTON offers an integrated approach to importing CO2e reference data into your calculation for sustainable, reliable, and data-driven product decisions.

In this video, you will learn about:

Regulation and pressure at the product level: Reporting on Scope 3 and PCF will become mandatory, and regulations like EU ETS development and CBAM are increasing complexity. Requirements from customers change product costs.
Why using generic benchmark data can be expensive with the variety of materials and how specific CO2e reference data can help reduce costs
Seamlessly integrated CO2e Management with sustamize Product Footprint Engine
How to import and use scope 3 emission data from sustamize to calculate the product carbon footprint in FACTON EPC Cost Management

This webinar provides a transformative approach to product cost management, empowering manufacturing companies' cost engineers, project controllers, sales staff, and sustainability managers.

To access the free webinar video, please complete and submit the form on this page. Next, you can view and download the webinar on demand in your browser.

4 Steps to Improve Your Cost Estimation

FACTON — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 11:59:30 GMT

In today’s competitive marketplace, cost estimation is critical in product development. Knowing how much a product will cost to manufacture and what the product emissions will be can help companies make informed decisions – from pricing to design and sustainability.

However, many companies need to take full advantage of costing capabilities. To unlock its full potential, it is essential to be transparent about costs, work collaboratively, identify cost drivers, and analyze the product’s cost and carbon footprint results.

In our webinar video hosted by the Society of Cost Engineers, we will discuss and demonstrate four essential steps to help companies better understand their products and make better decisions about their development and pricing.

To access the free webinar video, please complete and submit the form on this page. Next, you can view and download the webinar on demand in your browser.

Automize & Optimize Cost Engineering

FACTON — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 12:58:01 GMT

Are you tired of spending countless hours on manual calculations, and navigating through a maze of outdated spreadsheets and databases to arrive at a single pricing estimate?

Our experts from Synera, FACTON, and ARRK will show you our pioneering role with our innovative approach to cost engineering.

During the recorded webinar, you will gain knowledge about:

The current landscape and challenges of cost engineering
How to apply automation solutions and optimize cost calculations in real-time
Leveraging the power of customizable cost models
What's on the horizon with design to cost for best price predictions

Who is this for?

This recording is ideal for professionals involved in cost engineering, procurement, and decision-making roles within manufacturing organizations, including:

Cost engineers
Senior cost engineers
Cost engineering analysts
Procurement managers
Sourcing specialists.

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To access the free webinar video, please complete and submit the form on this page. Next, you can view and download the webinar on demand in your browser.

Optimize Cost Engineering with Low-Code

FACTON — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 10:15:22 GMT

Unlock the potential of Low-Code for revolutionary cost engineering and procurement

Many cost engineers and purchasers still rely on historical costing data without working with a rule-based framework. This leads to suboptimal decisions and operational inefficiencies.

Discover in our white paper how to overcome these challenges and revolutionize your cost engineering and procurement.

Learn how Low-Code facilitates data flow between departments and enables easy sharing across different tools and systems. This universal language unifies information sources and tools relevant to cost engineering.

Key takeaways

Low-Code can accelerate cost estimation and CO2 analysis time by 80%
Low-Code can help cost engineers align with sustainability objectives, such as adhering to CO2 emission standards
Traditional knowledge transfer processes in cost engineering can be inefficient and create information silos
Synera Run can democratize automation and bridge the gap between expertise and accessibility
The cost estimation process can be vulnerable to critical knowledge gaps when valuable knowledge is concentrated within a select few individuals

This white paper is ideal for professionals involved in cost engineering, procurement, and decision-making roles within manufacturing organizations, including:

Cost Engineers
Engineering Managers
Business leaders

To access the free document, use the form on this page. You can then read and download the PDF file in your browser.

Whitepaper: Product Carbon Footprint bewerten

FACTON — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 09:20:39 GMT

Free white paper: valuation of CO2 emissions

Since carbon trading, sustainability has become a critical component of strategic management. Government regulations, ESG guidelines, and shareholder demands drive carbon-neutral production.

What do we think about it? The manufacturing industry must evaluate sustainability and profitability along the value chain. They achieve long-term profits by considering product costs and CO₂ emissions parallel in every cost calculation.

Reducing emissions and staying profitable

In the white paper, learn how to calculate emissions from products and ensure transparency in cost calculations and customer projects.

What role does cost transparency play in the calculation of climate-neutral production?
What is the impact of emissions assessment on the value chain?
How can sustainability and profitability be considered together as strategic corporate goals?

The white paper includes key figures from the industry and reflects trends and approaches to assessing emissions and product costs.

To access the free document, use the form on this page. You can then read and download the PDF file in your browser.

Case Study: Weber-Hydraulik_EN

FACTON — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 10:48:31 GMT

WEBER-HYDRAULIK uses the FACTON EPC Cost Model Designer for its product configurations. Find out in our case study how the manufacturer of hydraulic solutions is becoming a pioneer in the digitalization of calculations in purchasing.

Benefits for WEBER-HYDRAULIK:

Creation of integrated, corporate digital cost models with the Cost Model Designer
Easy integration of cost models in the FACTON EPC Should Costing solution
Support of purchasing in the determination of targets for purchased parts and in the calculation of quotations with the help of benchmark data

To access the free case study (German with English subtitles), use the form on this page. Afterwards, you can watch and download the video in your browser.

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