Concord, Mass. – June 7, 2010 – aPriori, the global leader in Product Cost Management, announced today a significant upgrade to the currently shipping aPriori 2010 product release. This new version includes a substantial number of additions to the baseline cost models available with aPriori, and also includes two brand new products: a Progressive Die manufacturing process module and the Cost Data Loader.
Following a mere 4 months after the major release of the aPriori 2010 product in late January, this new version of software underscores the company’s commitment to bringing new products to market as fast as possible. “By providing our customers with the broadest suite of manufacturing cost models, we are further increasing the significant financial impact aPriori can have on our customer’s operations”, said aPriori President & CEO Stephanie Feraday. “We have found that after an initial deployment of aPriori, our customers want to broaden their deployments not just in terms of the quantity of engineers and supply chain specialists working with the product, but also across the number of manufacturing commodities that they can cost.”
aPriori is a critical component to many leading manufacturers cost control and cost reduction strategies as it helps identify opportunities for cost reduction and provides cost insight at any time during a product’s lifecycle. aPriori is used by engineering groups to evaluate design tradeoffs and quantify the cost of incremental features during NPI and VAVE projects, while savvy sourcing agents generate should costs with detailed manufacturing and cost information to support fact-based negotiation. Customer feedback to the new release has been extremely positive. Key highlights of aPriori 2010 r1.1 product release include:
- Progressive Die cost model – As part of the company’s continuing commitment to implement new cost models for the widest range of discrete manufacturing processes possible, aPriori is pleased to introduce the new Progressive Die process module. For companies that make a high volume of thin sheetmetal parts, this new capability will enable them to evaluate the cost associated with the different types of tradeoff decisions they make every day, including design changes, material changes, supplier evaluation, and many others.
- Machining - Baseline cost models have been added to the recently released Turning process module to support cylindrical grinding and rotor grinding. Furthermore, support has been implemented for costing the machining of helical grooves, such as those found on rotor flutes, tool flutes, and worm gears.
- Cost Data Loader - aPriori can now provide customers with a Cost Data Loader module to bulk load or import purchased part data. Customers can batch load a group of part numbers and their associated costs. When these parts appear in assemblies, their imported costs will be displayed and used to compute assembly costs.
- Platform Support – The aPriori client is now certified to run on Windows 7 / 64-bit machines.
About aPriori
aPriori software and services generate hard-dollar product cost savings for discrete manufacturing organizations. Using aPriori’s real-time product cost assessments, employees in sourcing, manufacturing and design engineering make more-informed decisions that drive costs out of products pre- and post-production. With aPriori, manufacturers launch products at cost targets, maximize savings in re-work projects and never overpay for sourced parts.
To learn more about aPriori and its product cost management solutions and services, or to see an online demonstration, visit www.apriori.com or call 1.978.371.2006.
aPriori and aPriori Technologies are registered trademarks of aPriori Technologies Inc. All other trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks belong to their respective holders.