Study on Product Conceptual Design for Cost

摘要

Design for cost (DFC) first appeared in the early 1990s,it's a design method on the premise of satisfying the user's needs that reduces the cost as far as possible.This article has discussed product conceptual design for cost,analyzed the study of the international DFC and the product conceptual design.As most of the cost has been set in the product conceptual design stage,this article tries to explore the design constraints from the cost point at the conceptual stage.It p roposed utilizing the DFC software to real-timely apprais e product cost in the product conceptual phase,and restraining cost to designer in the earlier period of entire project design process.