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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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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.
- 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.
- The main purpose is to understand and manage costs as early as possible in a project cycle. The software has done this exceptionally well.
- DFMA
We needed much more customization for our business needs, and this software provided the greatest potential for future expansion. The ease of use with the application was also a driving factor. We have groups located across the globe, speaking many different native languages. The software not only provided for good learning support built in, they also have offices across the world, with trainers in multiple regions that allowed us to get up to speed quite quickly.
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We have numerous individuals involved across our organization that utilize this product. They range from the following departments: Cost Research, Cost Modeling, Target Cost Management, Procurement, & Engineering. We have been able to make significant progress in reducing costs to existing products, as well as bring new products to market with much greater profit margins.
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Our support team exists of coders, and system admins. They need to understand the complete underworkings of the system, and how each piece joins to one another. They must be able to work on systems across the globe as well.
- Cost reduction
- New product introduction with target costs
- Flexibility to create new processes
- Multi department collaborations on assessing anticipated product cost
- Take the "should cost" mentality to a "could cost"
Yes
Boothroyd Dewhurst DFMA. They would not work with us to develop new processes we wanted to identify costs for. They seem to feel their product was great as it was designed. Guess they will end up the the way Motorola did, and fail on their arrogance. Too bad!
- Product Features
- Product Usability
We really needed something that we could customize. The fact that some of the other suppliers we reviewed would not allow this, and that aPriori would, was key in our decision. We also felt that the support team brought in on the sales pitch would be receptive to working with us.
Our process was quite rigorous. There is little likelihood that we would change any part of our selection process or criteria.
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
Change management was not a factor, as my company has it's own independent department responsible for target cost modeling and management. We will eventually be implementing into our engineering organization, and then change management will become more of a factor, but presently it is not an issue or consideration for us.
- Validating processes against our supply base
- Learning the coding aspects
- Developing our specific processes that were not included with the OOTB product
No
Service is included with our package.
Yes
For the most part, my issues are resolved to my satisfaction. However, there are times where my issues can be a bit complicated, and the duration to complete are more lengthy, or the resolution has to go into a service pack or major release, forcing me to wait for the solution.
aPriori is always very exceptional during times of our major release updates. Their support level is great, and they make sure they are available when we need them, even when it has been outside of their normal working hours. I've even had weekend resolutions, and one year over the Christmas holiday they were there to support me.
- GCD costing with CAD models
- Synchronization applications for global teams
- Sheet metal stamping for progressive stamped parts
- Database manipulations
- Cost Insight reporting
Yes, but I don't use it
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
- 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
- It helps decrease our time to market. So more projects are done than before.
- Being quick to give a quote to a customer is a business advantage. Customers know they can rely on Soucy to get a quick quote. First in gets the business.
- No time spent on concepts that are too expensive anyway!
aPriori is covering a lot of different processes instead of being an expert in only one. It can read geometric [information] directly from the CAD file so there's no need for manual entry or the risk of a mistake that comes with that. It provides data in a lot of different regions around the world this keeping the data up to date.
No
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It cover so much process and that was exactly what we need. Beeing a company that do multiple process, it was really imporant. Other softwares were good in only one process (ex: injection molding)
Lot of our customer was already using it
Lot of our customer was already using it
It will stay the same since we are really satisfy !
No
No need for now
Yes
No, but I can understand since it was somthing very specific to me
Oh Yeah, i had a crash after an installation of a newer version. A person form aPriori support give me 1 hour of is time to resolve it even if the problem was becasue of us
November 30, 2017
aPriori Cost Modeling Software Review
Score 9 out of 10
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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.
- 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.
- It has allowed us to turn around requests in record time
- It has allowed us real time collaboration and trade off analysis
- It has allowed us to support engineering and BOM development earlier in design phase
- DFMA
We needed a fully customizable tool that was based on a database platform. Others we used did not allow this for us.
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Yes
During our greatest amount of User Guided cost development, Support provided code and logic to help us grow our capability.