Estimation Model using Cost Driver in Aggregate Level for Mould Manufacturing

A mould manufacturer is one of the examples of a make-to-order industry. Therefore, a quotation is very important as the response to the customer order and should be prepared very fast and accurately. Thus, this research focuses on developing the estimation model various mould maker industry for the long-term. Another development is determining whether the product is complex or not by using certain criteria. To be able to be used in a different company for the long-term, the configuration is made so that the company may change the software setting based on certain situations. For determining complex products, the software should check all product inputs with the criteria and give notes for the product which exceed the limit of the criteria. Then, the software will be validated and verified. The validation is done by comparing the manual calculation with the software calculation result. The verification is done by comparing the manual calculation with software calculation with different settings. The result shows no difference between manual and software calculations. Finally, the software is used to estimate some engineering drawings as inputs and compared with the actual time as a case study.