In the effort to drive down costs in all areas of the aircraft life cycle, lightweight materials such as composites are being used to produce innovative designs, reduced manufacturing and assembly ...

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Project Time & Cost, LLC (PT&C), an Engineering News-Record Top 50 Program Management firm, today announced the launch of PT&C CostCenter. This cloud-based software as a ...

Risk realization based on cost overruns is a common theme across the globe in the modern era. The U.S. Department of Defense, the U.K. Ministry of Defence and many agencies and departments across the ...

The ability to consistently get accurate cost estimates for new products and parts is elusive. Cost estimates are inherently imprecise, and the underlying drivers can change daily based on the price ...

The estimating software development cost remains a complex problem, one that continues to attract a considerable amount of research attention. Improving the accuracy of the cost estimation models ...

Should cost is not perfect, but it does not matter, because its purpose is to be a leverage tool to improve negotiated cost, regardless of the should-cost number’s absolute accuracy. What is should ...

Scientists have developed a new method of design-independent process monitoring for semiconductor wafer manufacturing. The advance promises to provide semiconductor chip manufacturing cost and ...