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Do you know the cost to change the color on a box? Just the color, not the text, not the information, just the color?
Estimate:
$470,000No scrap cost, old color boxes used until stock depleted.
Vendor didn't charge us anything to change the color on the next and subsequent lots.
All that was engineering hours for the document revisions, meetings to support document changes, training, recording of documents, first article inspections, etc.
I didn't know the number but I'm not surprised.