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.