aPriori: aPriori
aPriori
200 Baker Avenue
Concord, MA 01742
United States
Web: http://www.apriori.com
Email: jdriscoll@apriori.com
Phone: 9783712006
About aPriori:
aPriori software and services generate hard-dollar product cost savings for discrete manufacturing and product innovation companies. Using aPriori’s real-time product cost assessments, employees in engineering, sourcing and manufacturing make more-informed decisions that drive costs out of products pre- and post-production. With aPriori, manufacturers launch products at cost targets, maximize savings in re-work projects and never overpay for sourced parts.
Product Details:
aPriori is product cost application that allows manufacturing, engineering and sourcing professionals to generate real-time cost estimates early and throughout a product’s lifecycle. The application a critical component to many leading manufacturers cost control and cost reduction strategies as it helps identify opportunities for cost reduction and provides cost insight at any time during a product’s lifecycle. aPriori is used by engineering groups to evaluate design tradeoffs and quantify the cost of incremental features during NPI and VAVE projects, while savvy sourcing agents generate should costs with detailed manufacturing and cost information to support fact-based negotiation.
Features:
- Automated Geometric Cost Driver assessment - Geometric Cost Drivers (GCDs) are automatically extracted from CAD model geometry, so you don’t have to spend time manually measuring and entering geometric feature information to estimate costs.
- Process routing engine – aPriori generates multiple feasible manufacturing routing options in seconds, so you can select the most efficient means to produce your design without multiple iterations.
- Physics based mechanistic cost models – aPriori cost models generate the cycle time required to produce geometry via specific manufacturing operations every time, so you’ll know if you can manufacture your design, and how much it will cost.
- Best-in-class baseline Virtual Production Environments – Virtual Production Environments (VPEs) represent industry average manufacturing costs, including machine data, labor rates, material costs and other regional economic factors.
- Configurable reports – Cost knowledge is only valuable if you can use it to make decisions. Reports configured with aPriori expedite the complex process of making cost effective design and manufacturing decisions, so you can get it right the first time.
Benefits:
- Design to Cost and Meeting New Cost Product Targets - aPriori will enable your company to establish target costs for new product designs that you are assigning to engineering for development.
- Post Launch Product Cost Reduction (VA/VE) - Engineering teams can also use aPriori to compare the cost to manufacture different designs of new products directly from Industrial Design CAD models.
- Make vs. Buy Decisions - Using aPriori’s Virtual Production Environments (VPEs), manufacturers can evaluate the costs/time benefits of making a product in-house vs. putting the product out to bid in their supply chain.
- Capital Asset Justification - With aPriori, you can make a copy of a VPE that represents your internal manufacturing facility, and then add a new machine to that digital factory, representing a new piece of equipment you are considering purchasing.
- Supplier Negotiation - With aPriori’s highly detailed cost analysis in hand, manufacturers can have fact-based negotiation and collaboration discussions with their suppliers.
