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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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Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.8.
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
- Design for manufacturing
- Bulk cost
- Vpe development
- Defining the new Vpe or process
- User defined costing
- User defined process can be better
- N/A
February 26, 2022
Better service starts here
- Easy to understand algorithm.
- In large databases, join and prune steps are easy to implement.
- The resulting rules are intuitive and easy to communicate to an end user.
- Dynamic itemset counting technique can add new candidate itemsets at any marked start point of the database during the scanning of the database.
- The transaction reduction method reduces the number of transactions scanned in interactions. The transactions which do not contain frequent items are marked removed.
- The sampling method picks a random sample from the database for frequent itemset. It may be possible to lose a global frequent itemset.
- Excellent cost model maturity level
- Reliable data library for different regions
- Precise should-cost have well-defined cost drivers
- Spreadsheet report flexibility with cost insights
- Cutting parameters and logic for milling process need to be reviewed and refined
- Super-finishing processes need to be added
March 05, 2019
Fact-based costing
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
- 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
- Investment Casting Model: We have a basic model where we have captured all the processes involved, but when logic is being missed in the same in process, we have to fine-tune it to make it as effective as other process groups.
- Powder Metal technology: Similarly, we need more process setup options in order to provide more logic for manufacturing. It does have the basic manufacturing setup
- Mass Volume Machining: Transfer machines, swiss lathes need to be incorporated for Mass and high-speed machining
- Forging: Hollow Forging as well as forging of Non-Ferrous metal need to addressed as the Forging cost is too high
February 27, 2019
Awesome aPriori
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
- Speed and capacity
- Bulk costing
- Detailed cost analysis involving complex geometries of parts
- Cost insight design
- Product Cost management support
- 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
February 25, 2019
Never turning back!
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
- Ability to model costs in multiple countries. In a short amount of time, we are able to make quick decisions as to a sourcing location, and provide good feedback to our purchasing organization, as well as our designers in relation to trouble areas (or cost driving features).
- Ability to self develop processes whereby customizing to our own industry. There are many processes that are specific to my business, and in order to better understand the costs for them, we need to develop our own modeling capability. aPriori allows for this to take place seamlessly within their product by writing it into their code.
- One of the best support organizations I've ever dealt with. I have used them extensively, with great success nearly every time.
- Branch into more process groups for cost modeling capability.
- Make system updates easier to integrate. It would be nice to have an update method similar to a Windows update.
- Revise the material libraries to be globally centric instead of regional centric. This is for an update simplification perspective of data.
February 23, 2019
Create Transparency in Cost though aPriori
- Creating Transparency
- Greater efficiency/faster results
- Greater accuracy
- Need competent user
February 19, 2019
Great decision making software
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Cost reduction
- Tooling costs
- Parts cost
- Source decision
- NPI - quotation
December 01, 2017
Awesome Software
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Great calculating machining times
- Good definition for part nesting
- Easy way to compare different types of process
- Lack of common processes, like roll threads
- Weak for some sheet metal parts
- List of materials is limited
November 30, 2017
No time to waste on waiting
- Give visibility to cost really quickly
- Be able to benchmark other regions of the world or other process/equipment that can be used to do the same part
- Easily visualize the Geometric Cost Drivers that are more important
- GIve some hints on where to work to get the cost down
- Be more easy to customize without that much IT knowledge
- Give more hints on how to reduce cost
- Be able to build customize report
November 30, 2017
aPriori Cost Modeling Software Review
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
- The ability to create User Guided models which are not available as well as models we can use when 3D files are not available.
- aPriori gives a lot of data as outputs. Would like to see a cleaner interface and one where we can get to the fields I want to see easier.
- Customizing reports more simply would be a benefit as well.
Score 9 out of 10
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Verified User
- Fast cost calculation
- Wide coverage of process group
- Good frequency of data update
- Sourcing
- New product development