Le mardi 24 octobre 2006 à 16:08 -0400, Timothy Miller a écrit : > We're working on pricing for OGD1, and we have some ideas, but we > thought we might want to discuss this on the list to see if anyone > knows the economics of it better than we do. > > I'm not going to discuss OGD1 itself. Although we have some good > estimates on things, we have no solid quotes for continuous supply of > parts, fabrication, etc. Instead, let's just keep this in the > abstract. > > Here are some factors that we thing we need to account for in pricing > the product: > > A: Raw parts cost > B: Engineering costs (design, testing, etc.) > C: Other handling costs (overhead, packaging, etc.) > D: Failure rate buffer (bad boards, warranty returns, etc.) > E: Maximum discount > F: Manufacturer profit > G: Wholesaler profit > H: Retailer profit > > For the sake of this discussion, I'm not going to address developer > discounts. We'll compute that separately. > > What I want to figure out here is (a) what other costs needs to be > accounted for, and (b) how the factors should relate to each other > mathematically. I think that you should count the testing as a factor, let's say B', since it's related to D and A, in the worst case B's is related to B about the design. B' is an iterative cost since each time a part or something fails to the test, the replacement implies another test.
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