1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 For every €1 invested in cost engineering, companies get €10 to €100 back. So why do most still miss&amp;nbsp;the savings? Because they start too late.&amp;nbsp; Severin&amp;nbsp;Heimrath, Managing Director at AWS Innovation Partners, has spent 15 years inside manufacturing organizations and keeps seeing the same pattern:&amp;nbsp;treating cost engineering as a procurement tool instead of a design tool. By the time a product reaches negotiation, 80-90% of its costs are already&amp;nbsp;determined&amp;nbsp;because engineering decisions, tolerances, and supplier choices have&amp;nbsp;locked&amp;nbsp;in the cost structure.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; In this episode, Severin shares what&amp;nbsp;actually drives&amp;nbsp;results:&amp;nbsp; ☑️ Why cost engineering must start in early product development&amp;nbsp; ☑️ How&amp;nbsp;centralized data and cross-functional collaboration outperform Excel estimates&amp;nbsp; ☑️ Where AI helps and where human&amp;nbsp;expertise&amp;nbsp;still wins&amp;nbsp; ☑️ And how leading teams consistently achieve 10–100x ROI&amp;nbsp; The technology&amp;nbsp;exists, and the methods are proven.&amp;nbsp;The only question is: are you starting early enough?&amp;nbsp; Beyond Cost https://beyondcost.libsyn.com/ <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/40153000/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/198713610