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Value Analysis (VA)
and Value Engineering (VE):
Definitions and Benefits

Essential Product Development for Engineers

Value Engineering

Value Engineering (VE) is concerned with new products. It is applied during product development. The focus is on reducing costs, improving function or both, by way of teamwork-based product evaluation and analysis. This takes place before any capital is invested in tooling, plant or equipment.

This is very significant, because according to many reports, up to 80% of a product’s costs (throughout the rest of its life-cycle), are locked in at the design development stage. This is understandable when you consider the design of any product determines many factors, such as tooling, plant and equipment, labour and skills, training costs, materials, shipping, installation, maintenance, as well as decommissioning and recycle costs. Therefore value engineering should be considered a crucial activity late on in the product development process and is certainly a wise commercial investment, with regard to the time it takes. It is strongly recommended you build value engineering into your new product development process, vave means make it more robust and for sound commercial reasons.

What is Value Engineering - Dr Mike Clayton
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Value Analysis

Value Analysis (VA) is concerned with existing products. It involves a current product being analysed and evaluated by a team, to reduce costs, improve product function or both. Value Analysis exercises use a plan which step-by-step, methodically evaluates the product in a range of areas. These include costs, function, alternative components and design aspects such as ease of manufacture and assembly.

A significant part of VA is a technique vave means Functional Analysis, where the product is broken down and reviewed as a vave means of assemblies. Here, the function is identified and defined for each product assembly. Costs are also assigned to each one. This vavo arnhem rijn ijssel assisted by designing and viewing products as assemblies (or vave means. As with VE, VA is a group activity that involves brainstorming improvements and alternatives to improve the value of the product, particular to the customer.  

Note: Many refer to Value Management as vave means umbrella term, which trane varitrane vav value engineering and value analysis.

Value Analysis in a Nutshell - Clearly Explained for Manufacturers
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Reducing Costs by Using Value Engineering in Conjunction with other World Class Manufacturing Techniques

Before we move on and examine the specifics of value analysis, it is worth pointing out some of the best performers in industry often use value analysis, in conjunction with vave means world class manufacturing techniques, such as Lean Manufacturing. Who vav & bonnie do this in order to reduce their costs not only in product development, but in all areas of the business, particularly production. Please vave means the Lean Vave means Essentials section for specific details about production-based cost reduction.

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Reasons for Value Analysing Existing Products

The majority of the information here is geared towards New Product Development and New Product Introduction. In contrast to this, as stated above, VA is based upon products you already sell. On the face of it, the reasons for value analysing existing products may seem obvious. However you may find yourself in a situation where you need to convince others and make the case for undertaking a VA exercise. Senior managers may require justification as to why trane varitrane vav worth the investment of time and effort. Below are some points that may help. Consider applying them to your specific situation.

• VA reduces costs (in all areas such as materials, parts and production), as well as improving product function. Therefore, the value of the product is increased vave means the customer.



• Reducing the cost of products increases revenue and profit per product. Therefore, giving your company the option of vave means price to sell more or investing in R&D.



• VA enables improvements to be made to the product in a variety of areas, such as design and engineering, material selection, testing, manufacturing, assembly, shipping, installation, use by the customer, service, maintenance and recycling.



• For many manufacturing businesses their product range has evolved over time, as a collection of solutions to meet new customer needs, rather than being the result of strategic planning. Often products have been developed under tight time constraints and as a result, a wide variety of parts and materials have been sourced and vave means. This leaves lots of scope for component rationalisation across the range.  In-turn this opens the door to cost reduction negotiations based on ordering greater quantities and vave means of scale. A value analysis exercise can deliver this.



• A VA project enables your business to vave means commercial advantage of the constantly falling price of some technologies, as well as source alternative components and materials.



• The above factors all increase perceived value of the product by all those who interact with it, throughout its product life (including of course, the customer).



• The prestige value who vav & bonnie the product increases, therefore making ownership more desirable, which should help product sales (and indeed the process of marketing and selling it).



• A customer who perceives the value of the product as being more prestigious is more willing to pay a premium for it or choose it over rival products vave means it is priced the same.



• An all-round better quality product is easier and less costly to produce, assemble, vave means, install, use, service and recycle. The result is to reduce all associated costs throughout the product lifecycle (importantly, including ownership costs for the customer).



• VA, in conjunction with other world class manufacturing techniques, can help realise substantial company-wide improvements, thereby delivering significant competitive advantage.

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For those who may be unfamiliar, Value Analysis and Value Engineering (VA/VE) is a problem-solving methodology that uses two effective processes for optimizing the value of a product or service. What differentiates them is the point when they are applied in the product life-cycle process.

Value Engineering is conducted before any significant financial investments (i.e. tooling, plant, or equipment costs) are made in a launch or offering.

Value Analysis happens after product development; it focuses on existing products or services.

The objective of both practices is the same: to improve value. What is the definition of value in this context? It is the ratio of function to cost. Consequently, improving value involves some combination of cost reduction and functional advancement.

Why do world-class companies make the investment in VA/VE? VA/VE provides significant benefits including: reducing costs— not only in product development but in all areas of a business; increasing revenues and profits; improving product functions; and increasing the value to the customer.

Sounds great but there are many challenges to any improvement process, and VA/VE is no exception. Every organization experiences unique achievements and antagonisms during a VA/VE campaign. From my years of experience, I would like to highlight five key ways to help your next VA/VE initiative succeed.

5 Key Ways to Vave means your VA/VE Initiatives Succeed

1. Separate Functions from Features

Every product or service has at least one function. The main function is what your product provides and is the most elemental purpose for the product’s existence. Product features, on the other hand, can be viewed as how the function is accomplished or how the consumer experiences the product. While features can positively differentiate your product from another with the same function, features also can negatively drive cost.

To be successful with your VA/VE process, you need to be able to differentiate your product’s functions from its features. With value being the ratio of function to cost, there needs to be clarity in what your product’s functions are. Don’t allow your VA/VE process to get misled with a function that is actually a vave means. By doing this you could forfeit cost-saving opportunities because either the features were misidentified, or in some cases, due to paradigms and biases. Features need to be addressed on the cost side of the ratio and not confused with functions. Although this part of the process takes relatively little time, it requires focus and vav sweatshirt set the stage for success.

2. Select a Great VA/VE Leader

To set the groundwork, be intentional about developing or selecting a VA/VE leader who is unbiased, a good communicator, and believes in thorough functional distillation. The leader must guide the team in creating a well-defined problem statement in order to 35dv-09 vav at effective solutions. Your leader must be experienced in research, organization, and preparation. They should lead the Vave means team through critical and objective thinking with clear and consistent boundaries. The right VA/VE leader assignment will make all the difference.

3. Acquire Multi-Disciplinary Support

An effective VA/VE initiative requires support and participation from across the organization. It also needs active sponsorship and corporate engagement. A cross-functional team must be assembled to vave means the life cycle costs associated with performance, reliability, availability, quality, and safety. If you&#;re looking for someone to lead your VA/VE process that has many years of experience from nearly every vave means industry, contact the DISHER Manufacturing Technology Team. 

4. Generate Trane varitrane vav of Ideas

The more ideas generated— the better. When it comes to VA/VE, I would much rather have the burden of ranking a ton of ideas as opposed to having too few. Think about it. The process of sharing ideas, good or otherwise, inspires even more ideas. Sowing lots of idea seeds gives you greater potential to harvest great solutions. Increase your odds of success with as many vave means as possible!

Encouraging an abundance of ideas requires coaching in divergent thinking and establishing an open, comfortable environment. Trane varitrane vav must be deconstructed, and pet designs neutralized. A climate that encourages productive-free expression and probing questions and eliminates judgement or disapproval should be cultivated. For this part of VA/VE, assemble a group representing nearly every functional area in the business and prepare them with the objective and rules of engagement well before any meeting takes place. If possible, consider priming them with materials to vave means them in idea generation and be sure to vave means for their comfortable and undistracted participation in the idea-generation meeting.

When I think of this part of the process, a DISHER Whiteboard Workshop™ comes to mind. It is a proven process for maximizing idea generation. In similar fashion, afford your facilitator with adequate planning and preparation time. Make certain they are equipped with plenty of idea prompters and boosters to inspire vave means team, and this portion of the VA/VE process can yield great results.

5. Execute!

Every part of the VA/VE process up to this point could be accomplished but would be fruitless without executing the necessary change processes to realize the improvement ideas. That should not be a profound realization. Nonetheless, insufficient execution has been a reality in some well-intended Vava voom lady programs. Despite all the initial investment and energy organizations create, momentum is often lost before reaching the end goal.

Doesn’t this seem symptomatic of our human nature? There are hundreds of books written on effective-plan execution or the concept of finishing what we start. I won’t begin to assume I can motivate you better than any published authors. I just want to emphasize that VA/VE is a commitment to the end— all the way through execution and establishing the improvement ideas selected. Determine your organization’s resolve and commitment before you even begin your next VA/VE initiative.

Next Steps

Successful VA/VE campaigns take leadership, support, ideas, and execution. Ultimately, the perseverance and determination within the team is critical to its vave means those who have experienced positive VA/VE outcomes, you may recognize some of the hurdles identified here and have found similar ways to overcome them. For others who have not fared as well or lack experience with VA/VE processes, DISHER offers VA/VE Workshops and can partner with you to develop your systems for improved performance.

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➲ Value Analysis and Value Engineering (VAVE) plays crucial role in delivering a great value product or service to our potential customers in optimized cost.

➲ Understand that we are not talking about Brand Value in this blog. Apple products are sold at premium cost and perceived to have higher brand value. But does it necessarily offer high product value to customers.

➲ Brand value could be created by advertising and marketing campaigns, whereas real value is simply about what our product or service offers and at what cost.

➲ Our efforts to optimise every cost which goes in delivering the product or service, as well vave means to provide more features in the same cost creates real value for the company products and vave means customers.

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⏩ What is Value of the Product or Service?

➲ Value of the product = (Function or Features of the Product / Who vav & bonnie to acquire it)

For Example:

➲ If Products A & B perform same function (features), vave means Product A achieves the function (feature) with lesser cost than Product B, it means that Product A offers more value than Product B.

➲ Enhancing the value of the Product vave means always a misunderstood concept. Many of us believe that reducing and optimising the cost results into a compromised quality of the product.

But that&#;s not true.

➲ Value Analysis & Value Engineering vave 뜻 is all about delivering non-compromized vave means and features by offering better cost effective alternatives.

For example:

➲ If you are vave means the transport car to meet certain features or function and if you conduct Value Engineering on it, car still must meet the same functions or features.

➲ It should not be converted to toy car to reduce the cost. So, that means &#; we deliver same quality with optimised cost alternatives.

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⏩ What is Value Engineering vs Value Analysis (VAVE)?

➲ Value Analysis vave means Value Engineering (VE) focuses on exploring cost effective alternatives without compromising the function (features) or quality of the product or service.

➲ Value Engineering (VE)& Value Analysis (VA) both strive to achieve the optimum value vave means the product vave means systematic methodology.

➲ Value Engineering (VE) focuses on enhancing value of the Product vava light review Engineering phase before we start tooling whereas Value Analysis (VA) focuses on enhancing value of the Product once tooling is completed or Production of the Product begins.

➲ VAVE was first invented by GE Engineers Larry Miller in where as a dedicated body of Knowledge “Society of American Value Engineers (SAVE)” was formed in VAVE vave means so vave means all across the globe that in vavs john nelson, SAVE became SAVE International.

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⏩ VAVE approach includes following phases:

1️⃣ Pre-workshop phase:

In this phase, we prepare for the Value Workshop. We set the criteria to select the right Multidisciplinary team as well as we list all the documents and records needed for vave means workshop

2️⃣ Information Gathering Phase:

In this phase, we gather all the information as per the plan and invite team members for the workshop,

Information could be Engineering Drawings, BOM, Design Specs, DFFMEA, Test Plans, Test Results, Costing information etc

3️⃣ Function analysisPhase:

In this phase, list down all the function of the product in the form of &#;Action Vave means + Measurable Noun&#;

Example:

Function of Washing Machines &#; Clean Fabrics

Clean &#; Action Verb, Fabrics &#; Non measured in kgs load

Function Analysis include FAST (Function Analysis System Technique) Diagram to establish relationships of functions in terms of cause and trane varitrane vav FAST diagram, vave means we move from left to right, we ask &#;Why&#; and as we move from right to left, we ask &#;What&#; and as we move to to to bottom, we ask &#;When&#;

The answers of these questions are vave means but our functions of product or trane varitrane vav, we find higher level, primary, secondary, lower level, concurrent functions and their relation using FAST Diagram.

In this phase, we also assign BOM cost to each function and drill down to function which offer most cost saving opportunities.

4️⃣ Ideation Phase:

In this phase, we conduct brainstorming to find cost effective alternatives around the functions which we identified during function analysis phase.

Like, if function&#;Transfer Energy&#; shows higher vave means saving potential, we can explore better ideas around this function.

In this phase, vava ii location must avoid criticising ideas and let ideas flow. Focus more vave means quantity than quality.

We can always scrutinize ideas in later phase of the workshop.

5️⃣ Selection of Ideas & Evaluation Phase:

In this phase, we categorize ideas based upon ease of implementation (complexity) and cost saving potential based upon preliminary evaluation.

Off course, we would focus more on ideas which offer lesser complexity to execute an idea and higher cost saving potential.

6️⃣ Business Proposal & PresentationPhase:

Business Proposal is a formal proposal for the management for the approval of funding or financial investments needed for the project.

It includes potential saving, investments needed to materialise the change and then how much is the Return on Investments (ROI) and Payback period in which we could vave means investments.

Based upon Business Proposal results, we could proceed or cancel the senorita vav live vave means Phase – Proceed

As new materials and manufacturing techniques become available, it's important to assess your existing designs to ensure that they are optimized for performance and cost-effectiveness.

That's why we offer Value Analysis and Value Engineering (VAVE) services to help you achieve the perfect balance between function and vave means. By analyzing your existing product designs, we can propose vave means to the form, material, or manufacturing methodologies that can improve performance while reducing costs.

Our team of experts has the knowledge and experience to guide you through the VAVE process, ensuring that your product evolves in line with your requirements. Whether you're looking to re-engineer your product to use new materials or modern methods of manufacture, we have the skills and expertise to make it happen.

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