Application of value engineering techniques: A case study of benzene sample container

Abstract

                  The team employed the value engineering (VE) technique in designing of a new benzene container having an objective to reduce the purchasing cost while maintaining its functions as well as its safety level in practice. It was shown that a new container designed in this study using an aluminum cap, with a butyl rubber septum and having a 240-ml bottle in volume could replace the existing sample container. This replacement contributes greatly to a 98% reduction of the total purchasing cost of the sample container or 1,986,687 Baths/year. The results of this case study strongly confirm that VE is a very beneficial tool that can be used in practice with reasonable amount of effort and it should be utilized more to reduce unnecessary costs in an organization.