Hiller Associates becomes an author on Engineering.com

 Product Cost in Industry, Purchasing / Sourcing, Uncategorized  20 Responses »
Jul 102013
 

 

Hiller Associates has been invited to become an author on ENGINEERING.com.   The Canadian company, headquartered in Ontario, has become one of the most influential voices in engineering worldwide.  ENGINEERING.com reaches thousands of people, who work in the many disciplines of engineering, every day with the freshest and best content on a variety of subjects, including:

 

 

  • Designer Edge
  • Design Software
  • Electronics
  • 3D Printing
  • Education
  • Careers in engineering

Eric Hiller, managing partner of Hiller Associates said,

We are grateful to ENGINEERING.com for the opportunity to share our insights in Product Cost Management and other topics that sit at the nexus between finance and engineering with the readers of ENGINEERING.com.  ENGINEERING.com has a great readership of influential people who are driving the next generation of products around the world and who range from individual contributors to engineering executives.  We look forward to continuing to work with ENGINEERING.com.

Hiller Associates is writing for the ENGINEERING.com feature area called “Designer Edge,” which contains articles on techniques and tools for better design engineering.  HA kicked off it’s authorship with an article focusing on the challenges that engineers face when presented with supplier quotes that the engineers have to understand versus their own internal should-cost estimates.  CLICK on the the title of the article below to read the article at ENGINEERING.com.

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Comparing Quote Apples with Estimate Oranges

 

John Hayes, President of ENGINEERING.com, said,

We welcome Eric ‘s authoritative and often humorous voice on the important, yet rarely discussed, topic of product costing.

Hiller Associates will republish the ENGINEERING.com article in its entirety on our own Product Profit and Risk blog later this week.

 

 

The Lake Wobegon effect: there are no laggards in Product Cost Management

 Product Cost Culture, Product Cost in Industry  1 Response »
Jun 272013
 
The Lake Wobegon effect: there are no laggards in Product Cost Management

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Is the View Worth the Climb in Product Cost Management?

 Product Cost in Industry, Product Cost Management, Uncategorized  No Responses »
Jun 242013
 
Is the View Worth the Climb in Product Cost Management?

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 Product Cost Culture, Product Cost Management, Uncategorized  6 Responses »
Jun 172013
 
Crossing Over from Classical Product Cost Management to being a PCM Rock Star

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Product Cost Management Precision… Ignorance is Bliss

 Product Cost Management  22 Responses »
Jun 032013
 
Product Cost Management Precision... Ignorance is Bliss

Numbers. They have such a comforting certainty to them, don’t they? Words can be interpreted. But, numbers, they have that beautiful mathematical ring of truth. I was thinking about this the other day, when I got a number from a friend. I was helping him review a model he had made, and I asked him Read More!

If Your Company Does Product Cost Reductions, It’s Already Too Late

 Product Cost Management, Uncategorized  28 Responses »
May 222013
 
If Your Company Does Product Cost Reductions, It's Already Too Late

As we posted on Monday, Hiller Associates has a new article in IndustryWeek titled: If Your Company Does Product Cost Reductions, It’s Already Too Late Here’s the full re-print of the article: ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Refocusing product cost management efforts from cost reduction to cost avoidance is less comfortable but far more profitable. Executive Summary Product cost Read More!

If Your Company Does Product Cost Reductions, It’s Already Too Late

 Product Cost in Industry, Project Cost Management  3 Responses »
May 202013
 
If Your Company Does Product Cost Reductions, It's Already Too Late

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A Product Cost Management Post to Upset Everyone!

 Product Cost Culture, Product Cost in Industry, Product Cost Management  44 Responses »
May 062013
 
A Product Cost Management Post to Upset Everyone!

In last week’s post we talked about where Product Cost Management sits in the organization . We concluded that Product Cost Management lives in a weird no man’s land between purchasing, engineering, finance, and manufacturing. Because the area is a wilderness, we used the analogy the people seriously pursuing Product Cost Management in companies are Read More!

The Rangers of the Wilds – Where does product cost management live in the organization?

 Project Cost Management  5 Responses »
Apr 292013
 
The Rangers of the Wilds – Where does product cost management live in the organization?

If you are a Product Cost Management person with an inner nerd like us, then you probably love and the Lord of the Rings trilogy by JRR Tolkien. One of the iconic characters in the book is the king in exile, wondering the wilds as a Robin Hoodesque type of character, a man named Aragorn. Read More!

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