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V-CES offers a multi facetted service comprising features as:
- Powerful internet browser accessed tool to assist the development of timely , accurate cost estimates (V-CES mentor) for more holistic, creative, resource efficient, and collaborative approaches to product development
- Training of novice cost engineers in all cost engineering techniques, e.g. parametric, bottom up, expert judgment based, and analogy based cost engineering-I earning from best practice cases for all cost engineering approaches/techniques
- One stop shop for public available information relevant to cost estimation leading to more creative, more timely fulfilment of cost engineering tasks
- Participation in a European virtual community to interact with colleagues and experts to learn from experiences of others and to establish informal and formal relationships
- user centred, multi lingual, virtual working and learning environment
- customisation to requirements of automotive, aerospace and semiconductor equipment industry.
Through V-CES services the users will need 25% less time to do accurate estimations. As a result, their companies benefit through the timely knowledge of their true bottom line costs and so gain a competitive edge. On a macro level, it will also make the best practice accessible to the suppliers and help achieve better OEM - supplier integration.
Overall, V-CES will strengthen Europe's competitive position by developing collaborative technologies and best practice methodologies for extended product development approaches, leveraging advanced information society.
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30.06.06 16:57
The feature article that IST Results recently published on the V-CES IST project has been taken up again in the monthly EVCA Barometer: www.evca.com/images/attachments/tmpl_27_art_43_att_1000.pdf
EVCA is the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association promoting private equity investment to investors, policy makers, entrepreneurs and industry. Each month EVCA selects the IST Results features of interest to them for their newsletter.
Cat: Project News
21.06.06 09:31
Cranfield, Itzehoe 2006-06-21
V-CES is implementing a varity of net based as well as offline services in order to support SMEs in achieving their goals, for holistic and efficient Cost Estimates, a best practice center and training in the different Cost Engineering methods, as parametric, bottom-up or analogy based techniques.
The 2nd prototype of the services, which is online now (
Cat: Press Releases
05.06.06 17:00
Cranfield University invites you in the name of the V-CES consortium to join the forthcoming Virtual Seminar entitled:
Virtual Cost Engineering Service (V-CES): a web-based service for the manufacturing Industry. This FREE virtual seminar will take place on Tuesday June 20th 2006 at 16:00 CET. The Seminar is directed to people involved in cost estimating in manufacturing industries.
Cat: Project News
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