Welcome to Ahead Consulting's cost benchmarking tool! Reduce your costs today.

The cost benchmarking tool is a database of cost per weight ratios ($/lbs) for a variety of part categories like castings, machined parts, plastic parts...

The data shown here will help you benchmark the cost of your parts or the parts you purchase with the community.  Are you paying a fair price?  Is your part very expensive due to a complex design which is difficult to manufacture,... ?  A great tool to reduce costs.

The intent of this database is to share cost data among users.  Users can upload their own cost data to share with the community.  Click here   for uploads.

Please help us grow by sharing your own data!

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$ / lbs

                     1.69      5.46      12.57             30.54