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Most companies discover their products cost too much only after designs are finalized, tooling is ordered, and suppliers have submitted quotes, when fixing cost problems requires expensive redesigns and delays. By that point, 80% of product cost is already locked in by decisions engineers made weeks or months earlier without visibility into cost implications.This article explains how should cost modeling during design phases reveals cost impacts while you can still act on them, covering what early-stage cost analysis involves, why design decisions determine final costs, how to integrate cost modeling into design workflows, and which capabilities make cost intelligence accessible to engineering teams.