DURING World War II, General Electric Company purchase engineer Lawrence D. Miles was assigned to deal with material shortages when production of turbochargers of B-24 bombers had to increase from 50 units per week to 1,000 units per week.
Miles, who is recognised as the “father of value analysis and value engineering”, developed a systematic methodology that reduced unnecessary costs by identifying and separating costs that had no impact on customers.
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