aPriori Product Cost Management vs Teamcenter

• Sheet Metal-Process Group, Transfer Die is at the Best, which gives detailed operation setup for the Parts as well as shows the number of parts in the Sheet i.e nested Loop thereby reducing the Scrap as well (Scrap Management)
• Forging-Steel: Very good for for medium and complex medium Hot Forging type parts. Machine overhead data is very detailed where facts are used for the negotiation i.e Electricity Rate, Power, Labour Rate, Maintenance rate, etc.
• Surface Treatment / Other Secondary Process such as powder coating, wet coat, electro plating: These all work well. We can also use masking options the treatment, In the event of of any leak tests or X-Ray inspections, we can add the process which will then account the pre/post operation time for the treatments
• 2-Model Machining: Machines and routing combinations are huge and can be used to determine the most economic way to produce these parts. We can also override to find the supplier methodology and cost. It gives very detailed information on the feed rate, speed rate, and power capacity.
• Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerating (GD&T) can be added on the GCD's which will help detect the super finishing process, which is another advantage. In the current 2016 R2 SP, aPriori can detect it from the CAD Models
• Design to Cost feature, provides the design engineers as well as cost engineers to understand the which feature take most cycle time and whether changing that feature reduces the complexity in machining thereby cycle time can be reduced

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• Teamcenter tracks & creates revisions pretty well, but that is after much customization we've done to it.
• Quite a bit of search power, although very complicated and challenging to use the search features.
• A database that can be integrated with ERP systems, but that does require much code writing and an SOA system.
• Document security -- not sure if these features are out-of-the-box or customizations, but this capability is highly valuable to protect IP.

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• Customization of the cost logic is tricky.
• Full products costing & process involved in the proprietary parts are less or not available for costing
• Sheet metal logics for costing may be improved.
• Focus on Electronics Cost models
• Electronics - Component Costings

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• Within the NX CAD package, there are often various little bugs and glitches that we come across in daily use. We generally submit incident reports to Siemens on these.
• In general, the Teamcenter software package lacks ease of use, general users within the department require frequent intervention and help from higher users for seemingly simple tasks.

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• Increased efficiency in delivering our projects.
• Leverage to look into product cost at design level.
• More saving realizations we can see and use for negotiation.

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• Decreased time to process ECNs with electronic workflow and notifications
• Ability to track status of ECNs has given us a better overview of the health of our process and resource constraints
• Version control for released items going through revision has reduced risk of manufacturing the wrong revision

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