COSTOPTIMIZER Professional

Cost engineering, material utilization, and process planning for progressive and line dies

Sheet metal costing and early feasibility

A solution for sheet metal costing and forming to optimise sheet metal components' design, feasibility, and cost.

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Cost engineering software solution for sheet metal components

COSTOPTIMIZER range of products

Our COSTOPTIMIZER range of products includes COSTOPTIMIZER, COSTOPTIMIZER Advanced, and COSTOPTIMIZER Professional. Each product allows for exactly the right solution for your costing requirements.

COSTOPTIMIZER

COSTOPTIMIZER enables cost engineers to develop quotations and estimates for piece part costing by creating precise blank shape developments, performing initial formability risk assessment, and establishing target costs for sheet metal components. Substantial material costs and weight reductions can be realized by optimizing nesting layouts and identifying critical nest points for minor changes to product design. COSTOPTIMIZER provides the required information to evaluate multiple manufacturing scenarios for optimal material usage that generates cost and weight savings.

COSTOPTIMIZER Advanced

COSTOPTIMIZER Advanced combines the power of formability analysis, blank development, and blank nesting tools with specialized product and process optimization tools that help identify design changes that reduce material costs while significantly reducing the number of engineering design changes caused by formability issues.

It is equally suited for line die or progressive die components, and it can also identify product design changes that improve material utilization and reduce costs. COSTOPTIMIZER Advanced provides the required information to evaluate multiple manufacturing scenarios for optimal material usage.

COSTOPTIMIZER Professional

COSTOPTIMIZER Professional is a software solution that establishes target costs and formability for sheet metal components and their tooling. It provides users with a fast and accurate method for creating and documenting process plans, verifying formability, developing blank shapes and coil nests, and for identifying product and process design changes that lead to substantial cost reductions.

Your benefits with the COSTOPTIMIZER range of products

Establishes target cost for piece price and tooling with a detailed process plan for quoting
Cost engineers gain self-assurance in quoting and estimating sheet metal components through a consistent and repeatable method for estimating tooling costs with detailed reports that connect to any system.
A scientific physics-based approach to process planning validated by OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers worldwide.
Improves quote accuracy to better position your company.
Suggests product design changes that impact material utilisation.
Evaluate part manufacturability concerns.
Generates images to detail die actions in each operation
Calculates press requirements such as tonnage, bed size, shut height, energy, and selects appropriate press
Promotes confidence and trust with your customers/suppliers.

"FTI FormingSuite software has become an essential tool for evaluating designs and defining more efficient processes at early development stages. It facilitates our engineers to identify multiple enablers, both in design and manufacturing, which helps us to close gaps against the optimal process for each stamping as well as highlighting major opportunities for our suppliers."

Saulo Munguia M.

Material Utilisation & Stamping Feasibility

Product Development, Ford Motor Company

"We now have a scientifically-based, repeatable corporate standard for all costing, processing and stamping. We can get product size, pictures, and other key information on a single sheet. Our OEM customers have actually asked other companies to create the same type of reports that we’re creating with software. That’s how effective it is."

Tony Gray

Tool Process & Engineering Manager

Flex-N-Gate