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Fan Reverse LBM Analysis

Many factors affect the price of a product, such as suppliers, manufacturing process, materials, etc. I took apart and reassembled an electric fan in order to understand how it was made and and make educated guesses on labor, burden, and materials used to create the fan.

Images and Spreadsheet

Above are images of an electric fan before and after deconstruction as well as an excel spreadsheet calculating the cost of manufacturing the fan based on the Labor, Burden, Materials (LBM) model. I used a burdened labor rate of $40.00/hr

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