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High-Velocity Product Development
Reduce design iteration time from “40 hours to a few minutes”Challenges Today & aPriori Solutions
Competition Launching Products Faster to Market
Products Launches Missing Set Targets
(i.e. Cost, Weight, Carbon)
Increase Market Agility with Cost-Optimized Designs
Lower product cost through smarter design, increases flexibility, competitiveness, and speed of responding to market opportunities.
Scale Faster with Manufacturing-Ready Designs
Ensure every design can be built efficiently and reliably.
Future-Proof Your Product Portfolio With Sustainability-Driven Engineering
Make sustainability a design requirement, not an afterthought.
Automated Design-for-X (DFX)
Transform Engineering Decisions With Real-Time, Quantified IntelligenceaPriori elevates Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for eXcellence (DFX) by replacing subjective opinions with objective, data-driven guidance. Designer Engineers receive insight into manufacturability, cost, sustainability, weight, and performance trade-offs — enabling smarter decisions earlier in the development cycle.
See how Quantified Design Guidance from aPriori transforms Product Development
Your Challenges
Manufacturer feedback takes too long
Design reviews take too much time
Lack of available data to drive decisions
Our Solutions
Evaluate DFM/DFX interactively as you develop designs
Get cost, CO₂e and manufacturing insights in real time
Run fully automated DFM/DFX analyses upon PLM check-in
Free up more time for design, less time waiting for feedback
Work Faster, Together with Cross-Functional Collaboration
Unite engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing around a single source of truth.With aPriori, cross-departmental design review collaboration becomes embedded. Teams can view, share, and comment on digital manufacturing intelligence in real time, accelerating design cycles and improving decision-making.
See how aP Workspace brings all stakeholders together
Your Challenges
Limited early collaboration leading to late-stage changes and rework.
Misaligned priorities across each team
Inconsistent, lengthy feedback loops delay overall progress
Our Solutions
Enable cross-functional 3D reviews with manufacturing, cost and sustainability data.
Improves communication between design, manufacturing cost, and supply-chain teams.
Shrinks review cycles and shortens time-to-approval for new designs.
Increase Market Agility with Cost-Optimized Designs
Lower product cost through smarter design, increases flexibility, competitiveness, and speed of responding to market opportunities.aPriori’s digital factories simulate real-world manufacturing to reveal the true cost drivers in your designs. Engineers can explore cost trade-offs instantly and make design choices that meet performance and budget goals.
How CNH evaluates cost throughout the design cycle
Your Challenges
No visibility into cost drivers at the point of design
Cost evaluations from other departments or suppliers take too long
Balancing multiple design criteria to achieve an optimal solution
Our Solutions
Provides real-time cost feedback directly from 3D CAD
Identifies cost-driving features in the design
Enables early optimization opportunities to avoid late-stage redesigns
Scale Faster with Manufacturing-Ready Designs
Ensure every design can be built efficiently and reliably.aPriori’s manufacturability analysis identifies production risks—like tight tolerances, deep pockets, or complex geometries driving additional processes —long before prototypes or tooling. Engineers can optimize designs early to ensure smooth manufacturing handoffs.
How Dana leverages aP Design
Your Challenges
Tribal knowledge around Manufacturability and Design Decisions
Lack of DFM skilled workforce entering the profession
Lack of automated DFM analysis tools, making reviews manual and time-consuming
Our Solutions
Validates manufacturing processes digitally, to detect build issues and inefficiencies.
Suggests design changes that improve yield and reduce cycle time.
Minimizes production delays and quality concerns.
Future-Proof Your Product Portfolio With Sustainability-Driven Engineering
Make sustainability a design requirement, not an afterthought.aPriori quantifies the environmental impact of the manufacturing process during design, giving teams the data to make greener decisions that don’t sacrifice cost or performance. Evaluate CO₂e footprint, energy usage, and material impact—all before production begins.
How aPriori makes embodied carbon visible at the point of design
Your Challenges
Improving embodied carbon in designs is not intuitive
Extreme shortage of knowledge of Manufacturing Sustainability
Balancing reducing environmental impact, without sacrificing margin
Our Solutions
Provides real-time carbon and sustainability metrics from digital factories.
Enables trade-off analysis between cost, and sustainability.
Supports corporate ESG and carbon reduction goals from the earliest design stages
