design to cost
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<hide> </hide> "Design to cost is a management strategy and supporting methodologies to achieve an affordable product by treating target cost as an independent design parameter that needs to be achieved during the development of a product." [1]
Applications of this methodology include the dollar a gallon gasoline project.
(Fast links)
- Dollar a gallon gasoline
- Penny a kWh
- Hundred dollars a kg
- Miller's method
- http://www.theoildrum.com/node/5485
- http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7898 (Recent discussion and details)
- Mining Asteroids (Asteroid mining is a natural outgrowth of mining for power satellite parts.)
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