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HISTORY

This Methodology for continuous perfection of production, industrial technologies, Organizational Structure s was developed by Juryj Sobolev (Соболев, Юрий Михайлович) ( Russia ) in 1948 at the " Perm Telephone Factory " (Almost at the same time as L. D. Miles ).


Today in economically developed countries practically each enterprise or the company use methodology of the kind of functional-cost analysis as a practice of the Quality Management , most full satisfying to principles of standards of series ISO 9000 .


BASIC IDEAS

  • Interest of Consumer not in Product s itself, but the advantage which it will receive from its usage.

  • The Consumer aspires to reduce his expenses ( Cost or Price of Function s).

  • Function s needed by consumer can be executed in the various ways, and, hence, with various efficiency and expenses. Among possible alternatives of realization of functions exist such in which the parity of Quality and the Price is the optimal for the consumer.



METHOD


The goal of FCA is achievement of the highest consumer satisfaction of production at simultaneous decrease in all kinds of industrial expenses (production Cost s). Classical FCA has three English synonyms - Value Engineering , Value Management , Value Analysis . It is not necessary to confuse method FСА as it takes place at some authors, to method Activity-based Costing (ABC)


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