The introduction of the Carbon Footprint function allows you to estimate the environmental impact of each production strategy, considering the energy used, the raw material required and CO2 emissions.
LeanCOST is a cutting-edge software solution for product costing and automated quotation generation. Seamlessly integrated with leading 3D CAD systems, LeanCOST automatically analyzes model geometries, simulates production cycles in real-time, and provides precise estimates of time and cost.
Ideal for technical, commercial, and procurement departments, this software accelerates strategic decision-making, optimizes production processes, and reduces negotiation time with clients. LeanCOST enhances corporate efficiency by identifying the most cost-effective and competitive production solutions.
Key areas:
Product Costing – Cost Engineering Software – Manufacturing Cost – Cost Estimate Software – Cost Calculation Software – Cost Management – Business Cost Reduction – Production Cost Management – Production Cost Reduction Software

LeanCOST EVO: the ideal partner for optimizing production costs
LeanCOST EVO is the new ideal solution for companies that want to optimize production costs, improve the efficiency and sustainability of their processes. With its new innovative features, LeanCOST EVO offers users complete control over cost analysis, allowing them to make informed and strategic decisions at any time.
Simplify complex operations with intelligent automation!
Your smart solution for costing
LeanCOST is the software solution with a reliable and sustainable analytical approach. It allows product costing and automatic quotation generation, activities aimed at improving your competitiveness.
Thanks to the integration with the most popular commercial 3D CAD systems, it automatically analyzes and extracts the geometric characteristics of the model and associates a machining cycle, providing an objective estimate of production times and costs as output.
From today, LeanCOST reaches a further level of usability, flexibility and power, thanks to the new LeanCOST EVO version, which offers users a series of new features that further simplify and optimize the analysis of production costs.

New user-friendly interface
With a completely revised, more fluid and intuitive user interface, LeanCOST EVO allows you to easily monitor all phases of the analysis, from the initial inputs to the 3D model to the numerous outputs generated.
The implementation of the interface now allows complete customization of the software, adapting it to specific work needs, and simplifies the data management process, guaranteeing greater autonomy and better monitoring in updating information.
New “Multiple Analysis” function: tailor-made strategies at the click of a mouse
The new “Multiple Analysis” function allows you to view and compare different production strategies simultaneously. This allows you to quickly choose the most suitable option for your needs, based on a complete evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of each strategy.
Vault Management: enhanced intelligent archiving
The LeanCOST EVO Vault is renewed with new features that simplify file management. It’is now possible to view and manage the files contained in the Vault without having to open LeanCOST. In addition, the analyses carried out by the LeanCOST Batch module can be saved directly to the Vault, guaranteeing quick and secure access to data.
Nesting: optimization of sheet metal cutting
LeanCOST EVO introduces Nesting analysis, which allows you to accurately estimate sheet metal scrap and generate PDF reports with the optimal layout of the elements to be cut. This function helps to minimize material waste and optimize production processes.
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Key features
The benefits of cost analysis and cost management
How our plm software works
Analyses and extracts geometric parameters from uploaded 3D CAD models and design specifications.
It recognises the product structure, even multi-vessel, and automatically generates the BOM. Costing of all parts is carried out immediately and efficiently thanks to automatic recognition.
Determine the cost/quantity diagram and calculate the economic production lot. It is the best support for make-or-buy decisions.
It automatically imports the costs of raw materials, trade components and cost centres present, and exports all calculated time and cost information to ERP systems. Connection with PLM/PDM systems allows files generated within the systems to be saved and previous costings to be retrieved

One software, multiple use cases
TECHNICAL AND R&D DEPARTMENTS
To simulate costs for various projects and select the most cost-effective solution.
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS
To support decisions based on objective analysis.
PROCUREMENT DEPARTMENTS
To compare quotations and make strategic decisions.
COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT
To automate the generation of customized quotations.
EDUCATIONAL
- Education aimed at students and teachers in secondary schools, universities, research and training centres
- In-depth study of industrial technical drawing, mechanical process and product technologies, industrial design and organisation.
LeanCOST features
- Optimization of the raw material based on an updated database of the starting raw materials available on the market
- Automatic estimation of sheet metal scrap through a dedicated export
- Visualization and automatic analysis of the most advantageous production strategies
- Comparison of times and costs on production alternatives
- Benchmark suppliers through mapping of available technologies and machines
- Archive (Vault) shared between users with saving, search and recovery functionality for analyses
- Scheduling of massive analyzes of multiple codes
- Generation of detailed and configurable reports of the production process
- Automatic generation of configurable quotes
FAQ
LeanCOST can be installed in both stand-alone and client/server mode. In the latter case, the server houses the data to be shared and the licences, while the software is installed on the clients.
The LeanCOST database comes with a ready-to-use dataset in terms of raw materials, machines and processes. The information presented refers to Italian market averages and customer company data. Hyperlean updates the system’s databases on a monthly basis. If the company has requested customisation of the database with specific information, the company itself will update the data with Hyperlean’s support or independently.
The licences are a type of Software. Licences can be either floating or node-locked. For the first type, the number of simultaneous accesses is equal to the number of licences purchased. The software has no upper limit in number of installations.
LeanCOST provides access via login with user name and password. Access has several interfaces and roles, each with dedicated functionality (Viewer, Designer, CostEngineer, Administrator, Manager).
LeanCOST provides for the export of analysis results in different formats: Excel, PDF, XML (for integration with ERP). The PDF is configurable by enabling or disabling certain items, and Excel reports can be either standard or customisable. The second involves the ability to export information in a template provided by the company.
The degree of accuracy of the calculation depends on the set-up of the system; once the calibration of the databases has been carried out and the rules dictating each company’s production mode have been implemented, a level of accuracy of less than 5% with respect to the actual data can be achieved.
LeanCOST also provides the option to be used manually, by selecting the starting blank from the database and manually imputing the geometric parameters of the various processes in the database.
Operations can also be added manually to an analysis made on the basis of a 3D model with automatic recognition (e.g. painting, treatments, etc.).
Yes, tolerances, roughness and material are also taken into account in the recognition of the raw material and production processes in addition to the geometry read from the 3D model. Appropriate finishing processes (finishing, grinding, lapping, etc.) are recognised for specific tolerance and roughness values.
Technological parameters are calculated on the basis of default values or as a function of conditions (material, machine, geometric parameters, batch, etc.) and can always be modified by the user based on his own experience.
The analysis is based on the application of rules based on the technological knowledge implemented in the software, so that the process selected by LeanCOST respects geometric and technological constraints (tolerances, roughness, etc.). In the event that a geometry cannot be associated with any process, LeanCOST returns a report.
Yes, machines are assigned on a default basis or by selecting the machine with the lowest hourly cost among those valid for the operation (geometric and technological constraints of the machine). Through a specific functionality, the user can replace those proposed by the system with compatible ones.
Yes, it is possible thanks to the LeanCOST VAULT module, which allows you to automatically archive, search and retrieve analyses already carried out.

LeanCOST 12: the high-performance previous version
LeanCOST 12 is a highly modular innovation that anables optimased geometric recognition of the most complex shapes.
It offers new cost models for handling volumetric milling and automatically identifies the most challenging bends and serrations in the considered model.
Simplify complex operations with intelligent automation!
Configurable graphic interface
User-friendly and multilingual interface: italian, English, France
Automation in cost calculation
Centralization and standardization of cost calculation procedures
Integration with major business system
Perfectcluy able to integrate with ERP-PLM/PDM
Integration with 3D CAD systems
Automatic recognition of machining processes from 3D CAD geometry