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What is aPriori Technologies?
The aPriori Manufacturing Insights Platform automates and simulates the entire production process for a digital twin CAD model. The heart of the platform is its Digital Factories which generate an array of manufacturing data that can be used by product…
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What is aPriori Technologies?
The aPriori Manufacturing Insights Platform automates and simulates the entire production process for a digital twin CAD model. The heart of the platform is its Digital Factories which generate an array of manufacturing data that can be used by product design teams, cost engineers and sourcing specialists to make better decisions daily.
What are Manufacturing Insights?
aPriori’s Manufacturing Insights Platform simulates each step of the product manufacturing process, including both primary and secondary operations. The data generated by a manufacturing simulation helps product teams to identify and eliminate any potential design or sourcing related issues that would either slow down or stop the production process and cause delays to a product launch or inflation of manufacturing costs.
Identify & Eliminate Manufacturing Obstacles Before They Slow Down Production
Digital Factories provide manufacturability analysis and directional costing that give design teams and engineers an incentive to design for manufacturing (DFM), reduce engineering change orders (ECOs), and launch products on schedule. Digital factories also provide sourcing teams with the capability to compare production environments across an extensive range of manufacturing criteria to evaluate fully burdened manufacturing costs and inform site selection. For a given product design, digital factories can be used to identify and select less expensive raw materials, cheaper manufacturing processes offering faster cycle times, and alternative finishing options.
What is Digital Factory Software?
An aPriori digital factory is a combination of two key elements: aPriori Regional Data Libraries and aPriori Manufacturing Process Models. Out-of-the-box digital factories are a baseline configuration for a production deployment. They provide benchmark estimates and manufacturing guidance. The analyses produced are based on general and reasonable manufacturing practices and average rates not specific to an individual industry. aPriori Digital Factories can be configured to represent specific manufacturing practices and cost structures of your internal facilities or even those of a trusted supplier.
aPriori Technologies Features
- Supported: aPriori can be configured on-premise or as a cloud-based solution
- Supported: aPriori solves for manufacturability and cost drivers early in the development process
- Supported: aPriori measures greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions throughout a manufacturer’s supply chain
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aPriori Technologies Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | USA, EMEA, APAC |
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The most common users of aPriori Technologies are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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March 09, 2022
A Tool To Help To Boost Your Cost Estimation Process
aPriori is used to serve the following purpose: 1. To select strategic suppliers to procure parts 2. For make vs buy decision 3. Design engineers use to identify the cost of design 4. Selection of the right manufacturing process to manufacture a part 5. To validate the right suppliers, right manufacturing process, and the right location to procure. The end objective is to procure parts at optimal cost.
February 26, 2022
Better service starts here
I found aPriori is a great tool that supports all stakeholders of any product lifecycle in the Design Development of Product Maintenance. Also found it as an excellent tool in the hands of a Designer to understand the impact of design on cost and identify design cost Issues and design rule violations early into the design phase. aPriori is also helping to understand the effect of alternate designs and processes.
We use aPriori for our product should-costing which can be further used for negotiation with our suppliers. We also use aPriori for our cost down/NPD projects so that we can evaluate the design changes with respect to cost. In our organization, we are the only ones using this tool and supporting all the segments.
March 05, 2019
Fact-based costing
Score 9 out of 10
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- Product Cost Management :
aPriori is essential in our department for activities such as:
- Potential for current parts- Value- Base Negotiation [ Direct Savings from Current Suppliers]
- Providing target cost for new products [ New Product Development]
- Speed, innovation, capacity
- Generating the Technical Ideas during the Supplier workshop , Idea Generation Workshops
- To meet the Negotiation Target for the suppliers- [ Fact- Based Negotiation]
- Supplier Rationalization (Supplier Bench-marking)
- Cost Break-up for the Parts (Quote Missing)
- Most Economic ways of Producing the Parts in machining could be analysed
- Negotiation with suppliers
- Keeping the target cost for the new products i.e. cost avoidance
- RFQ benchmarking
- Producing results quickly
- Reduced the RFQ response time drastically
February 27, 2019
Awesome aPriori
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
aPriori is used in our cost management team. We are support functions in our organization that are responsible for the cost analyses. Our analyses are used across the organization. The cost analyses used for value-based negotiations, New Product Development pricing, spend optimizations for suppliers, reverse engineering, and value tracking for various commodities etc., Processes are updated to maintain the maturity of the cost results we get from it.
February 25, 2019
Never turning back!
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
Presently it is being used within our Cost Modeling organization. The data and results are interpreted and fed into our engineering and procurement organizations. It addresses the desire to design and procure to specific profit points or better. With this tool, we are better able to hit our profit targets for projects.
February 23, 2019
Create Transparency in Cost though aPriori
We can imagine and dream about a product that we like, but when it comes to cost we take a wild guess. Being more realistic about cost by considering all of the parameters is an essential feature required by any customer in modern days—this is being fulfilled by aPriori. It also creates transparency inside the organization and more realistic cost. Greater efficiency/faster with greater accuracy.
February 19, 2019
Great decision making software
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
We use aPriori to have the best parts with a fair price with the right process/supplier. It is great software for NPI and renegotiation tasks. We use the reports to get fair prices and to develop a high-efficiency process at our supplier base.
December 01, 2017
Awesome Software
Score 10 out of 10
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By a department Supply Chain.
November 30, 2017
No time to waste on waiting
aPriori is mostly used by two differents engineering development teams to know in real time the cost of a part/assembly/product. We have a costing simulation department who uses aPriori to give this feedback cost to the development team.
So, it helps in many ways:
So, it helps in many ways:
- Be quicker and more confident when we have a design decision to make for in-house development project
- Give a fast quote to our customer in a build to print product
- Remove the number of RFQ to our suppliers
November 30, 2017
aPriori Cost Modeling Software Review
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
aPriori's ability to be calibrated and customized to our specific uses allows us to fill in the gaps. We especially like and use the Cost Model Workbench for the ability to create User Guided models which are not available as well as models we can use when 3D files are not available. One business area we have been able to work on is identifying gaps where we could not model costs in the past. Now we can build cost models to do those. This provides extra resources in providing target costs and is useful in supplier discussions.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
aPriori helps us to clearly understand the cost structure and to establish the should cost models globally through our department. As it has the capability to calculate the cost directly from 3D models so we can have cost models for a wide range of configurations.