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Cost concentration unknown
No view of which components drive the bulk of cost.
Component-level teardown analytics that expose your — and competitors’ — cost, driver by driver.
Teardown turns a finished product into a cost map. We break products down to the component level and cost each part, revealing where cost concentrates, how it compares to competitors, and exactly where to attack it.
A finished product’s cost is invisible until you take it apart.
No view of which components drive the bulk of cost.
No idea how your cost structure compares to rivals.
Cost decisions made in design are never revisited.
Driver-by-driver visibility.
Products broken to component level and costed.
Where cost concentrates and why.
Your cost structure versus competitor teardowns.
A complete cost map.
Every component costed and rolled up.
The parts and drivers that dominate cost.
How you stack up against competitors.
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The industries this work serves.
R&D, safety and commercial analytics.
Operational and patient-flow analytics.
Project controls, cost and schedule analytics.
Demand, pricing and customer analytics.
Quality, throughput and maintenance analytics.
From product to cost map.
The product is broken to component level.
Each component is costed.
Cost drivers and concentration are identified.
Compared to competitor teardowns.
Attack points are prioritised.
Cost mapped to the component and the driver behind it.
The category, capabilities and expertise this connects to.
Common problems in this area, how KEPLER solves them, and the likely outcome.
10–15% cost delta explained
View details →Sales knows a competitor product is cheaper; engineering can't say where the gap comes from. 'They're just cheaper' is not something you can design against.
A part-level cost bridge that turns 'they're cheaper' into a specific, addressable list of design and sourcing changes.
~20% subassembly cost out
View details →A subassembly looks expensive for its function, but suspicion doesn't survive a design review. The team needs the cost broken down component by component before anyone will act.
A costed list of simplification and substitution options, ranked by saving against the effort to change.
100% of BOM spend costed
View details →When a large spend is spread across tens of thousands of BOM line items, it's effectively invisible. Without a costed bill of materials, there's no way to see where the money goes or where to start.
End-to-end spend visibility across the full BOM - on programmes this can reach ~36,000 line items and over $1bn of spend - turned into a prioritised worklist (illustrative).
No use cases match this filter yet — but the problem is almost certainly one we can help with.
Ask us about your problem →Pick a product and we’ll break its cost down to the component.
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