Understanding Life Cycle Cost How your Northern saves you money ® Reference: Hydraulic Institute (www.pumps.org) What is Life Cycle Cost? • The life cycle cost (LCC) of any piece of equipment is the total “lifetime cost to purchase‚ install‚ operate‚ maintain‚ and dispose of that equipment. • The components of a life cycle cost analysis typically include initial cost‚ installation and commissioning costs‚ energy costs‚ operation costs‚ maintenance and repair costs‚ down time costs‚ environmental
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In the book The Message in The Bottle by Walker Percy‚ he brings out many topics that really make one question their vision of the world and themselves. One big argument he brings up in his second chapter‚ “The Loss of the Creature” is that as individual beings‚ humans are losing their sovereignty. Sovereignty is our ability to think independently‚ to make our own assumptions and to be in control of own our perceptions of things. He believes that many individuals have lost their sovereignty due to
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All new technologies goes through a technology adoption life cycle in which certain market groups adopt the product before others are willing to do so. Here is each of the market groups: Innovators‚ early adopters‚ early majority‚ late majority‚ and laggards. Innovators in a general sense‚ is a person or an organization who is one of the first to introduce into reality something better than before. That often opens up a new area for others and achieves an innovation. They pursue new technology
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The Product Life Cycle of Black Barrel Cheese Definition of Product Life Cycle The period of time over which one item is developed‚ brought to market and eventually from the market. First‚ the idea for the product undergoes for research and development. If the idea is determined to be feasible and potentially possible the product will be produced and marketed and rolled out. Assuming the product becomes successful; its production will grow until the product becomes widely available. Eventually‚
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PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE CONCEPT OF PRODUCTS LIFECYCLE (ELEMENTARY KNOWLEDGE) Product Life Cycle Definition by Philip Kotler: "An attempt to recognise distinct stages in the sales history of the product " PLC concept implies: Products have a limited life. Product sales pass through distinct stages with each stage posing Challenges/Opportunities/ Problems. Profits rise/fall during different stages of product life cycle. Products require different marketing/manufacturing./ finance/ purchase/ HR
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What are the Product Life Cycle (PLC) Stages used for? It helps to predict the profit levels and tailoring marketing programs according to the demand‚ your product development stage‚ current profits and level of investments and your changing customers’ needs. The Product Life Cycle (PLC) is one of the Products Portfolio Analysis and Planning Tools. What are the Product Life Cycle Stages? There are four different stages of any product from its development stage (prototype) till the product withdrawn
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MARKETING THROUGH THE PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE A company’s positioning and differentiation strategy must change as the product‚ market and competitors change over time. Due to this‚ a product is assumed to follow the concept of the product life cycle (PLC). Kotler (2000) say that a product has a life cycle is to assert four things: Products have a limited life; product sales pass through distinct stages with different challenges‚ opportunities‚ and problems for the seller; profits rise and fall at different
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number of benefits associated with life cycle costing. (a) The life cycle concept results in earlier actions to generate revenue or to lower costs than otherwise might be considered. (b) Better decisions should follow from a more accurate and realistic assessment of revenues and costs‚ at least within a particular life cycle stage. (c) Life cycle thinking can promote long-term rewarding in contrast to short-term profitability rewarding. (d) The life cycle concept helps managers to understand
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Product life-cycle management (or PLCM) is the succession of strategies used by business management as a product goes through its life-cycle. The conditions in which a product is sold (advertising‚ saturation) changes over time and must be managed as it moves through its succession of stages. Product life-cycle (PLC) Like human beings‚ products also have a life-cycle. From birth to death‚ human beings pass through various stages e.g. birth‚ growth‚ maturity‚ decline and death. A similar life-cycle
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