Life cycle cost analysis

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A life cycle cost analysis calculates the cost of a system or product over its entire life span.

The analysis of a typical system could include costs for:

• planning,
• design,
• development,
• production,
• maintenance,
• disposal or salvage.

This cost analysis depends on values calculated from other reliability analyses like failure rate, cost of spares, repair times, and component costs.

See also: Product life cycle management, Technology lifecycle, Crossing the Chasm, spend management, cost management, List of marketing topics, list of accounting topics, List of management topics

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Life_cycle_cost_analysis" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_cycle_cost_analysis, used under the GNU Free Documentation License