aPriori extends PTC partnership and brings Enterprise Cost Management to PTC's Manufacturing Process Management Solution.
Concord, MA, June 5, 2007 – aPriori™, the leading provider of Enterprise Cost Management solutions for discrete product and manufacturing companies, and PTC, the Product Development Company®, today announced that they have extended their partnership to leverage aPriori’s Enterprise Cost Management software platform capabilities. aPriori is proud to be exhibiting and presenting at the 2007 PTC/USER World Event in Tampa, Florida as a Conference Sponsor and one of a select group of Windchill MPMLink Launch Partners.
aPriori has been a Gold partner with PTC for over three years and in 2005 was awarded “Innovative Software Partner of the Year” by PTC for its new and groundbreaking software platform for Enterprise Cost Management. aPriori is tightly integrated to Pro/ENGINEER®, providing real-time, predictive and precise product cost assessments to users directly within their MCAD environment. Additionally, other functions, from manufacturing engineers and planners, to purchasing and sourcing professionals and program managers have full visibility to product costs through aPriori. This enables them to identify quantifiable savings in material, tooling, labor and overhead cost while evaluating alternative designs, manufacturing processes and vendor sources, ultimately driving a reduction in their Cost of Goods Sold (COGS).
"We are excited to be part of PTC’s Windchill® 9.0 and Windchill MPMLink launch, and to be extending our strong partnership with PTC," said John Busa, Vice President of Marketing at aPriori. "Our tight integration with Pro/ENGINEER provides an ideal platform for allowing all enterprise users to gain visibility to product cost and to consider the financial impact of design and manufacturing decisions."
Windchill MPMLink allows manufacturing engineers to develop manufacturing processes from the same product information that’s being defined by engineering, eliminating the problems inherent in creating and maintaining duplicate product information. By easily transforming engineering BOMs (eBOMs) into manufacturing BOMs (mBOMs) and defining and managing the manufacturing processes in the same system, companies can ensure that the product will be accurately manufactured according to design specifications. With an integral system, manufacturers can have a single end-to-end change management process across engineering and manufacturing.
"aPriori is one of a select number of PTC Partners that provide unique complementary capabilities to our manufacturing solutions," states Alex Mackenzie, Vice President, Product Management, Manufacturing and Service Solutions, PTC. "Cost visibility is critical to manufacturing companies and aPriori’s solution allows a manufacturing engineer using Windchill MPMLink to access accurate cost predictions from the very beginning of the design process. aPriori extends Windchill MPMLink to further facilitate concurrent product and manufacturing process development and will dramatically improve manufacturers’ ability to consistently achieve cost targets."
About aPriori
The aPriori Enterprise Cost Management software platform improves the financial results of discrete manufacturing and product companies by enabling them to actively control Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) with real-time, predictive and precise product cost assessments. aPriori’s proven and patent-protected software platform allows companies to assess, control and reduce the cost of their products in real time, at any time during design, sourcing and manufacture. This enables companies to understand the cost impact of product design decisions earlier than ever before, reduce their Cost of Goods Sold, and improve operating margins. The aPriori platform is rapidly deployable across the extended enterprise, up and running in a matter of weeks generating cost assessments reflecting a customer’s factories’ and suppliers’ capabilities. For more information, visit www.apriori.com.
aPriori and aPriori Technologies are registered trademarks of aPriori Technologies, Inc. PTC, the PTC logo, The Product Development Company, Windchill, Windchill MPMLink and Pro/ENGINEER are trademarks or registered trademarks of Parametric Technology Corporation.
aPriori Media Contact:
John Busa
Vice President, Marketing
978-371-2006
jbusa@apriori.com