aPriori 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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• It is state-of-the-art software you can plan your entire Product Lifecycle begging from idea to maturity or decline.
• Very simple to use and has almost all functionalities that one would require.
• It can be easily integrated to several applications providing seamless experience.

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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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• roles definition and authorization can be made more user friendly
• process schedule definition requires more of IT skills than an actual use case, there can be dashboards to define such processes and it can be automated effectively
• organization of workflows can be handled better and there should be automated reminders for tasks within the workflow
• the user interface is pretty outdated, still menu based and has lot of scope for improvement

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• It improved our business model and strategies.
• Provided get analytics for future view.
• The main negative impact is that it is costly, a waste of time to hold a vast number of candidate sets with many frequent itemsets, low minimum support, or large itemsets.

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• You will definitely get Return on Investment if you know how to use it and where it is helpful most.
• It helped us very much in developing a product faster and more efficiently.
• You can make your decision based on reports and DTA of other similar products or based on experience of other plants.

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