The Cost aims to describe a cost engineering process and expose the many things that can go wrong with it. Although the story and characters are fictional, the events are based on real occurrences. If these seem familiar to the reader, it is probably because they happen on a daily basis across thousands of global companies in many different manufacturing industries. Making money is not always straightforward. Having a great product that people want usually helps, but understanding your own cost is critical to success for most companies. Unfortunately, it is much too often that companies do not understand their own cost, which leads to lost opportunities to win business and to make money. In most severe cases, lack of cost engineering ...
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