Teardown Benchmarking

To every last component until mapping of every IC and resistor.

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Should Costing

Every step in high detail for process, raw material and overhead costing. We do not do thumb rules or approximations.

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Cost Reduction Ideas

Comparing cost deltas across all parts to identify opportunities for material, design, packaging, and supplier changes.

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Supplier Identification

We do high volume teardown across categories and maintain a massive database of suppliers.

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Own Assembly Costing

We do in plant data mapping and conduct should costing of your own plan operations.

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Typical Engagement Flow

Step 1 - Data Capture

From drawings or teardown.

Step 2 - Should Costing

In xcPEP offers standard assumptions for benchmarking and cost reduction or can align with your sourcing and suppliers for target costing.

Step 3 - Cost Reduction

Idea generation by comparing Should Cost of your vehicle with competitor and identifying all cost delta and reasons.

Step 4 - Workshop

We bring all parts to your site and conduct a workshop to share our findings, and leave the parts for your reference or scrapping.

Step 5 - Continued Use

Of data by your team using xcPEP. Data can be exported to csv and image formats if required.

Engineering Blogs

Our engineering blogs are written by our engineers after conducting internal projects on teardown and should costing of specific products. Most information and images in our blogs as well rest of our website are from our own internal projects or are heavily edited and disguised versions from our projects.

Product Studies

Others

Frequently Asked Questions

1Do you provide benchmark database?
No
2Will you refer past data from other projects to generate cost saving ideas?
No, we will only use data and analytics from your own projects for delivering outcomes to you.
3Do you conduct training sessions?
No, we do not conduct training sessions.
4Do you provide manpower to be deployed at my office?
No, all our projects are fixed price, fixed scope activities and billed as such.
5Can my team join yours when you're doing the project for us?
Yes, as and when required, your team can join us for your projects.
6Can you help set up these capabilities at our end?
Yes, we can provide xcPEP on a license basis, create workflows, migrate past data and train your team for performing benchmarking, should costing and cost reduction activities at your facility.

What sets Advanced Structures apart?

We provide a technology-driven, data-backed alternative to conventional, subjective methods in should costing and cost reduction.
Here’s how we stand out compared to others.

Management Consultants

Our core value proposition is a technology based solution built on xcPEP platform. We can execute large activities in a reasonable time frame at a relatively frugal cost. All our solutions are based on hard data and transparent analytics.


Sustained engagement with us ensures that inefficiencies do not creep up and external help won't be required to clean them from time to time.

Engineering Services Companies

General purpose engineering manpower and tools lack severely when compared with Advanced Structure's pure play processes, team and xcPEP software platform.

Our competitive edge here is massive because of our technology and process advantage.

Your Internal Team

Typically, our customers are manufacturing companies which do not have the incentive to create such capabilities at scale.

Even large teams do not have access to technology like xcPEP which is why their outcomes remain relatively simpler in nature and smaller in scale.