Design to Cost by aPriori

Do These Challenges Sound Familiar?

Manufacturers are facing extreme pressure to develop innovative products and get those products to market faster than ever before. Here are some of the most common challenges we see our customers facing:

Shorter Product Lifecycles
Intense competition for market share is putting price and feature pressure on product development teams to deliver innovative new products to market faster and more efficiently than ever before.

No Visibility to Manufacturing Cost Drivers
Design and engineering teams do not have tools that provide them with quick visibility to the manufacturing and cost consequences of the decisions they make each and every day

Late Stage Engineering Churn
Many product development executives are struggling immediately before Release to Manufacturing when you discover that a design flaw has caused you to exceed your target cost or created a manufacturability issue that can’t be easily overcome.

Lack of Manufacturing Knowledge
Young, inexperienced engineers entering the workforce lack enough manufacturing knowledge to avoid design features that can inflate cost and cause manufacturing issues. Combine this scenario with a globally distributed workforce and supply chain, and it’s getting harder for product execs to avoid late stage engineering churn types of issues.

How aPriori Can Help Your Business

aPriori’s Design to Cost (DTC) Solutions provide product teams with real-time visibility into cost drivers and manufacturability issues that result in expensive and time consuming engineering change order (ECO) churn at the end of the design lifecycle. aPriori was purposefully created to be used by even the most inexperienced design engineer and enables close collaboration with your cost engineering experts and suppliers as new product designs evolve over time.

Identify and Eliminate Cost Drivers Early – aPriori manufacturing simulation helps users quickly identify cost drivers and potential manufacturability issues during preliminary design phases through quick costing of your 3D CAD models. aPriori’s DTC guidance provides users with component, manufacturability, and cost issues to review and recommendations of how to mitigate these issues.

Improve Product Value - with easy to generate cost/value tradeoffs. aPriori provides tools that let you quickly develop design alternative comparison studies that highlight savings opportunities available. Standard report features let you generate savings reports that will make you the hero of the next design review!

No Surprises – Track calculated cost against target cost at the component and system level on a week to week and month to month basis. This will dramatically reduce the possibility of getting surprised with excessive engineering change orders related to cost or manufacturability at the end of the design lifecycle.

Want to See Apriori in Action? Check out the 2-Minute DTC Video Below

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