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Product and Process Costing for Sheet Metal

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15 hrs
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English , Hindi
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AALOK SHARMA
AALOK SHARMADirector- Business Development - AAAS Industries / Sheet Metal/ Project Management
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Why enroll

Master the art of sheet metal costing with our comprehensive 15+ hour course!

This course is ideal for mechanical, aerospace, automotive, and manufacturing engineers, design engineers, fabrication specialists, and quality control professionals seeking to enhance their skills in sheet metal costing.

Are you seeking to optimize sheet metal production & ready to enhance your skills, increase efficiency, and reduce costs? Enroll now and become a sheet metal expert!

Is this course for you?

You should take this if

  • You work in Agriculture or Automotive
  • You're a Mechanical Engineering professional
  • You prefer live, instructor-led training with Q&A

You should skip if

  • You need a different specialisation outside Mechanical Engineering
  • You need fully self-paced, on-demand content

Course details

This comprehensive course of 15+ hours covers the fundamentals and advanced topics of Sheet Metal engineering & it focus more on costing of sheet metal component and assemblies.

This course is ideal for mechanical, aerospace, automotive, and manufacturing engineers, design engineers, fabrication specialists, and quality control professionals seeking to enhance their skills in sheet metal costing.

Direct costs-These are important to consider when setting product prices because they represent the minimum amount needed to break even on production.

Manufacturing overhead-Keeping track of manufacturing overhead costs can help you determine your business's performance and efficiency.

Direct labour-This is an important part of the total cost of producing a product. To calculate direct labour costs, you can track the time employees spend on different activities and multiply their pay rate by the amount of time they spent on a project.

Cost allocation

This involves tracking and aggregating business expenses to assign them to specific cost objects, such as a product's production.

Gross margin-This is a key business metric that indicates how well a business manages its costs. You can estimate your gross margin by subtracting the cost of goods sold from the total revenue.

Overhead costs-Accurately allocating overhead costs is important for effective product costing. This can help with making correct managerial decisions, such as pricing decisions.

Sheet metal is metal formed into thin, flat pieces, usually by an industrial process. Sheet metal is used in automobile and truck (lorry) bodies, major appliances, airplane fuselages and wings, tinplate for tin cans, roofing for buildings (architecture), and many other applications. Sheet metal of iron and other materials with high magnetic permeability, also known as laminated steel cores, has applications in transformers and electric machines. Historically, an important use of sheet metal was in plate armor worn by cavalry, and sheet metal continues to have many decorative uses, including in horse tack.

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Key topics covered

This course is for 15+ hours, including theory and examples of practical applications. This Couse is deliver live via online media and will have class of 2hr30min each day. In this course we will cover following topics in details.

•Introduction of Product Costing.

• How to calculate RM Cost.

• What is ZBC and Propose.

•What is Direct Cost (RM Cost, Labor Cost) and Indirect Cost (OH)

•How to calculate Process Cost and what is the process.

•How to calculate running cost of machine.

•What is difference between Price Vs Cost and ZBC vs Cost.

• Q&A

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Training details

This is a live course that has a scheduled start date.

Live session

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Sun, Mar 2, 2025

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Duration

1 hour per day

15 days total

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Questions and Answers

A: Picking the wrong path here keeps edge attack active and you'll be buying enclosures at 40,000 km. Urea-driven wet corrosion chews zinc first, so starting with more sacrificial zinc and improving paint adhesion slows the loss rate at cut edges. Stainless looks tempting but cost and galling show up fast, and aluminized sheet is aimed at heat, not fertilizer splash. More paint alone doesn't protect sheared edges where the zinc was thin to begin with.

A: Guessing wrong here blows the quote and the schedule when laser cells back up. Cutting thicker sheet slows feed rate and increases assist gas, so cost per part climbs unless you re-nest to keep utilization high. Press brake effects are secondary and don't rescue laser hours, scrap rarely drops on its own, and plasma trades accuracy for speed you can't use on tight GD&T parts.

A: Lowballing here locks in a loss and forces late design churn. Raw steel is a minority of finished cost, but for simple brackets processing scales with weight and operations, not some fixed surcharge. A first-pass multiplier based on kg and bend count keeps you in the right decade, while triples and flat adds ignore how shops actually quote.

A: Missing this means repeated field splits right at the press brake. Too-tight radii stretch the outer fibers past ductility, planting microcracks that grow in service. Hydrogen issues and corrosion leave different signatures, and vibration by itself doesn't localize damage so cleanly to the bend apex.