DFMA® - Boothroyd Dewhurst, Inc.

DFM Concurrent Costing

Graphs
01 November 2018 casting comparison.dfmx

Cost per part, $

Initial
Life Piece
Material Setup Process Rejects Tooling Total tooling
volume part
investment
manual sand casting
Sand casting, manual 1,00,000 0.2806 0.0102 4.3786 0.0974 4.7668 0.0648 4.8316 6,477
Generic copper alloy
auto sand casting
Sand casting, automatic 1,00,000 0.2806 0.1278 3.0828 0.0493 3.5406 0.0864 3.6269 8,636
Generic copper alloy
manual sand casting -
China
Sand casting, manual 1,00,000 0.2806 0.0042 1.7560 0.0438 2.0846 0.0249 2.1095 2,492
Generic copper alloy
die cast
Die casting, hot-chamber 1,00,000 0.1452 0.0255 2.6071 0.0299 2.8078 0.3504 3.1581 35,036
ZA-8 cast zinc alloy
investment casting
Investment casting 1,00,000 0.6520 0.0146 3.2683 0.0959 4.0309 0.0523 4.0832 5,233
Generic copper alloy

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