
Learn the basics of product costing from a designer's perspective, covering costing elements, components, and types like zero-based and reference costing, with practical tips on machine rate and labor cost.
Learn the basics of product costing for designers, from stakeholders and cost components to zero based costing, enabling rough cost estimates without complex spreadsheets.
Explore zero based costing by stripping a product to exact component costs from raw materials to assembly. Learn budgeting foundations, outsourcing vs manufacturing decisions, and cost control through value engineering.
Understand raw material costing for designers by examining steel, plastic, and rubber usage, rough costs like ₹200 per cage, and note that landing costs and process costs are separate.
Analyze processing cost and machine rate for injection molding, covering capex, depreciation, direct and indirect costs, consumables, labor, rent, electricity, and maintenance.
Analyze how overheads, inventory, logistics, and packaging shape product costing, detailing administration, maintenance, safety, and profit, with GST and import costs guiding pricing.
Master zero based costing by analyzing tool amortization and the full cost breakdown: raw materials, processing, overheads, labor, and profit, and track costs with templates for optimal pricing.
Explore variable costing, where costs vary with timing, machinery, and labor, and learn the formula: direct labor plus direct materials plus variable overhead divided by units produced.
Compare similar components to infer price and verify costing truths, examining barrel, refill, cap, raw materials, and processes to understand reference costing for designers.
Compare costs from multiple vendors to identify the cheapest option for a similar product. Use reference costing to replicate cost elements and compare brands and features.
About the Master Class:
This course teaches students about the costing knowledge which is required being a designer. Basic elements and components of costing have been discussed in detail along with different types of costing such as reference costing zero is costing and comparative costing. Also many components names like inventory cost machine hour rate labour cost overheads cost profit margins parking cost has been discussed in detail to get a complete view for designers when it comes to material costing.
Design philosophy:
As I used to say in my design courses, that design cannot be learned in the rot learning or Text book way of learning that you do through a chapter wise and remember some formulas that will yield you some solutions. Design is unique and when different people approach the same problems we will get different solutions based on the inputs that designer works on.
So design can be approached in the way of learning through the case studies and by doing action on your own to learn yourself.
Learning by doing and learning by action.
Benefits of the Master Class:
Students will learn about the components of costing which includes ROMaterial, processing cost, overheads in detail with examples.
Also this course teaches about why materials costing knowledge is required for designers and how it plays a five little role in interfacing with the engineering team with respect to economic and cost restrictions.
In-depth knowledge of machines, our rate and how to arrive for each machine based on the Capex of the machine, overheads of the machine, consumables and non-consumables of the machines, maintenance and its appreciation and appreciation cost.
Students can learn about how costing could be easily put into a product like a pen and how we are able to compare it with the market to see the difference in what mistake you made.
In-depth knowledge of zero based costing and how the elements are playing in that.
Also a very quick based costing which is comparative costing and reference costing can make costing very easy even when you have a confidential or don't know anything about the material we still are able to calculate the cost with the reference costing method.
After attending this course designers will definitely have a very good knowledge about costing and its awareness and that can impact largely when it comes to designing the products more efficiently more cost-effective than putting the value stream in the process of supply chain