Wyle is a recognized and innovative force in the cost estimating community and is a leader in the research, development and implementation of new cost estimating methodologies.
Innovations include:
- Definition and application of development and production difficulty ratings to adjust cost estimates to better reflect relative complexities using regression percentile statistics
- Leadership in the field of risk analysis with a methodology that is a level deeper than typically applied by other organizations.
- Developed industry guidelines for historical cost and technical data book development.
- Derived cost improvement curves from space hardware cost versus weight regression analysis.
- Calibrated engineering complexity on a large scale using PRICE H.
- Developed an innovative approach for predicting hardware development costs as a function of theoretical first unit production costs, the amount of development hardware, fraction of hardware that is unique and percent of unique hardware that is of new design.
- Developed unique regression models for predicting system engineering, integration and test and program management at two hierarchical levels of the work breakdown structure.
- Developed schedule estimating relationships based on historical data.