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It is known that Managing Companies' Proprieties outside the Company facilities is a challengeable task. It is not only the fact of knowing what is involved and with whom it is, but how is its condition, integrity and if the third part is keeping the assets in good maintenance. Also loosing the tracking of the lifetime and costs involved such as depreciation and amortization may cost to the Company a huge amount of money, it can cost intellectual propriety shared, product quality and flexibility to move from one critical supplier to another. In a global market having the control of these assets can be the difference among success and failure either thinking about costs or achieving better quality results.

Companies all around the world have realized that internal cost reduction focus as well as real cooperation between the supply chain are key factors for market success. There is also an understanding that labor and pricing negotiations have a relatively small influence on total product cost as the design intelligence, oriented to cost, quality and manufacturing, sets 70% or more of the product price. The purpose of this paper is to present the Sprint Engine Cylinder Blocks Commonization Project which was implemented after 1 year of hard work.