Nowadays, various industries are striving to find ways to reduce costs. Some valve industry bosses have found that valve design costs have a significant impact on their overall costs while reducing costs. So how does the design cost of valves affect the overall cost of valves?

The impact of design factors on costs is mainly manifested in the following aspects:

1. Reasonably design the functionality of the product

The rationality of product functionality in design will affect the manufacturing cost and market reputation of the product, as well as the potential market for the product. Designing a product that meets user requirements while minimizing costs is the most reasonable design. Therefore, as a valve designer, it is necessary to extensively collect user data, carefully conduct statistics and analysis, and then determine the basic types of valves with basic functions and certain room for improvement as the standardized products of this series of valves.

This type can meet the requirements of most users, while for those who require higher performance and more comprehensive functions, we can make simple modifications and combinations based on this basic type to meet their requirements.

2. Reasonably design the structure of the product

The structural rationality of product design will affect the weight of the blank and the processability of the product, thereby affecting the cost of raw material procurement and process. For valve designers, "weight reduction and enhancement" is an eternal pursuit.

For valves, a special type of pressure vessel, due to the complexity of its structure and shape, the uncertainty and unpredictability of actual pressure, the uncertainty of its actual bearing capacity on engineering pipelines, the instability of the physical and chemical properties of the main material, and the lack of corrosion data for various materials in different media and pressures, there is currently no complete mechanical (strength, stiffness) calculation theory that can meet the performance requirements of the product while minimizing its weight.

3. Reasonability of product design process

The rationality of product design process will affect the rationality of processing technology and the processing cost. The simple and complex structure of products and components, the design of processing surfaces, the design of fitting accuracy, and the design of assembly forms all affect the production of models, the forming of blanks, the difficulty of processing technology, the amount of processing and processing hours, the difficulty of assembly, painting, packaging, transportation, and so on. Therefore, in design, a designer's experience in craftsmanship is crucial.

4. Design the appearance rationality of the product

The rationality of product appearance design will affect the market volume of the product, which in turn affects the batch cost. There is a popular saying in the mechanical design industry that goes, 'Ugly is unreasonable'. That is to say, if the shape of the product we design is not attractive, there will definitely be unreasonable aspects in terms of stiffness and strength. Unreasonable shapes must rely on increasing materials to achieve the required strength and meet performance requirements. Therefore, a reasonable shape design not only looks good, but also saves materials and reduces costs.