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Kalkulation für Lohnfertiger.
Machine hour rates, quotes and post-calculation in metalworking.
Ask a job shop for its hour rate and you get an answer at once. It is almost never right. Job shops are not too expensive, they are too cheap and do not know where. The book works through a metalworking company completely: what a machine really costs once transport, foundation, fixtures and ramp-up are added; how the machine hour rate comes about and why it depends more on utilisation than on the purchase price; what a productive hour of labour costs; how overheads reach the orders; how costs turn into a quote and what a five percent discount does to the profit.
With a sample company calculated through every chapter, three fully costed quotes, the ten most expensive mistakes as a checklist, 16 figures and six costing sheets to rebuild. For owners, plant managers, foremen and planners in machining, sheet metal and welding. Published in German.
Four excerpts from the book
Four excerpts from three parts of the book – the four errors of thought, the friendly lie of the balance sheet, what utilisation does to the hour rate and what a discount costs –, quoted verbatim from the manuscript.
Reading sample in German – the book is published in German.