Cost engineering and pricing in autonomous manufacturing systems / Hamed Fazlollahtabar, Mohammad Saidi-Mehrabad.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 7, 2019).

Intro; Cost Engineering and Pricing in Autonomous Manufacturing Systems; Cost Engineering and Pricing in Autonomous Manufacturing Systems; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1. Autonomous Manufacturing System; 1.2. Costing and Pricing; 1.2.1. Opportunity Cost; 1.2.2. Opportunity Costs and Market Prices; 1.2.3. Price; Chapter 2: Concepts of Costing in Automation; 2.1. Overview; 2.2. Introduction and Related Works; 2.3. Model Development; 2.3.1. Key Dimensions for Managing Automation Supply Complexity

2.3.2. Reference Automation Agent Architecture Model2.4. New Paradigm: The Use of Automation Resources; 2.4.1. Economic Aspects of the Automation Life Cycle; 2.4.2. Maximum Benefit of the Product Life Cycle; 2.5. Data Integration Model; 2.5.1. Costs and Benefits of IS; 2.5.2. Balancing Benefits against Implementation Costs; 2.6. Discussions and Concluding Remarks; Chapter 3: Concepts of Pricing in Automation; 3.1. Overview; 3.2. Introduction and Related Works; 3.3. Model Development; 3.3.1. Automation Energy Pricing Model; 3.3.2. Concession Pricing Model

3.3.3. Representative Automation Pricing Methods3.4. Discussions and Concluding Remarks; Chapter 4: Cost Parameters and Costing Models in Autonomous Manufacturing; 4.1. Overview; 4.2. Introduction and Related Works; 4.3. Cost Accounting Concept; 4.3.1. Documenting Cost Accounting Policies; 4.4. Cost Object; 4.5. Manufacturing Costs; 4.6. Costing Model Development; 4.7. Application Study; 4.8. Discussions and Concluding Remarks; Chapter 5: Cost Engineering in Autonomous Manufacturing; 5.1. Overview; 5.2. Introduction and Related Works; 5.3. Cost Engineering

5.4. Cost Minimization/Profit Maximization5.4.1. Short-run Cost Minimization; 5.4.2. Long-run Cost Minimization; 5.4.3. Application Study; 5.4.4. Cost Functions; 5.5. Cost of Quality; 5.5.1. Application of CoQ in Autonomous System; 5.6. Discussions and Concluding Remarks; Chapter 6: Cost and Price in Autonomous Manufacturing; 6.1. Overview; 6.2. Introduction and Related Works; 6.3. Model Development; 6.3.1. Time-varying Pricing; 6.3.2. Production Function; 6.3.3. Electricity Cost Function; 6.3.4. Labor Cost Function; 6.4. Manufacturing Profit Maximization; 6.5. Example

6.6. Discussions and Concluding RemarksChapter 7: Pricing Models in Autonomous Manufacturing; 7.1. Overview; 7.2. Introduction and Related Works; 7.3. Model Development and Analysis; 7.4. Discussions and Concluding Remarks; Chapter 8: Price Optimization in Autonomous Manufacturing; 8.1. Overview; 8.2. Introduction and Related Works; 8.3. Smart Manufacturing; 8.4. Pricing in Manufacturing; 8.4.1. Profitable Selling; 8.4.2. Cost System for Advanced Manufacturing Systems; 8.5. Estimating Rwsc; Estimating Risc; 8.6. Application of the Cost Model; 8.7. Discussions and Concluding Remarks

The book focuses on analyzing and proposing costing and pricing models to be used in autonomous manufacturing systems with respect to different effective parameters and factors in such a high tech environment within some applied cases.

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