Contracting Agency: U.S. Army, Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD)
Point of Contact: technology@kbsi.com

Overview

CCAD has a re-occurring problem with the identification of direct and indirect costs associated with activities at the shop floor level. A means of determining job costs, based on selected shop activities was required in order to anticipate the costs associated with working job batches. CCAD’s Blade shop and Shot Peening shop were selected as the focus of these studies.

In the first phase of this project, KBSI developed a series of models to analyze costs associated with working a daily batch of parts. AIØ WIN® and SmartCost® were used to construct the shop activity decomposition, cost models, cost rules and analysis spread sheets. The finished model set allows for the flexibility to optimize the daily workload flow in order to realize the highest productivity and highest cost avoidance.