Part Details and Assembly Details

The Part Details and Assembly Details tabs display a wealth of detailed information about the part or assembly, respectively, and its cost (for a given Virtual Production Environment (VPE) and process routing). Various categories of information can be configured into different views or sets of information. These categories include descriptive information; current cost and quote data; production information; VPE, process, and machine information; manufacturing times and costs, as well as input rates (such as hourly labor and overhead rates and material unit costs) used in the cost computations. The Part Details and Assembly Details views provide Current, Previous, and Last Saved information.

Note: In the Assembly Details table for an assembly, you can open an assembly component by double-clicking on the row in the table.

Some of the fields presented in these views are editable. See Overriding computed values for more information.

The Assembly Details tab includes four pre-defined views which provide different sets of fields, for different purposes. These pre-defined views include the Assembly Summary view, the Assembly Cost Detail view, the Sourcing Summary view, and the Assembly Process Detail view. These views are described later in this chapter.

Both the Part Details and Assembly Details tab provide a number of pre-defined views that you can display by clicking Table View ->Select Table View:

These pre-defined views help you focus the data display on a specific area of interest such as the Overhead Summary (which was added to support the direct and indirect overhead enhancements introduced in release 2015 R1). aPriori also provides an All Data view, which provides a superset of all data fields available for the part, grouped into categories. The All Data view provides a useful starting point for the creation of new customized views. For more information, see Creating new views on page 1.

The Part Details and Assembly Details tables include the following fields and more:

Cost drivers		Description
Process	Process	The cost associated with a particular type of manufacturing process that a machine performs.
	Machine Name	The machine used by the cost engine to compute costs for the given process.
Manufacturing Times	Labor Time (s)	The time that someone is paid to perform an operation/process on one part/assembly.
	Cycle Time (s)	The actual time that a machine/process is operating on a given part/assembly.
	Parts Per Hour	Computed as 3600 seconds per hour divided by Cycle Time.
Variable Costs	Material Cost	Cost of the physical material used in the manufacture of the part. Material Cost includes both the material in the physical part and an allocation of scrap material that is wasted during the manufacturing process. Material cost does not include consumable material (for example, weld wire, adhesives, etc.), only primary material.
	Labor	The amount that labor is paid to manufacture the part or assembly. The customer determines which components of labor compensation are included in the labor rate that is used to calculate labor cost. However, labor cost usually includes hourly wages and benefits.
	Direct Overhead	Direct Overhead costs are costs that can be specifically associated with the manufacture of specific part through a machine. For example, most machines have a machine or direct overhead rate that allocates the machine's power costs, depreciation, maintenance, etc. to parts that run on the machine based on time.
	Batch Setup (amortized)	The cost in machine downtime and labor incurred when a machine is configured to run a batch of a given design. This cost is amortized to individual parts or assemblies by the number of parts in a batch.
	Logistics	The cost of transportation between supply chain facilities.
	Expendable Tooling	Tooling that is consumed during manufacturing, but not tied to a specific part. For example, a drill bit, turret press punch, etc. are used in the manufacture on many different part designs.
	Additional Direct Costs	Other miscellaneous costs not accounted for in the above categories.
	Extra Costs	A placeholder line item to be used for miscellaneous costs. The default value is zero but your VPE may be customized to use this field to capture specific types of costs and relabeled as needed (see the aPriori Administration Guide, Managing Cost Taxonomy Display Labels).
	Other Direct Costs	The subtotal of Expendable Tooling, Additional Direct Costs, and Extra Costs
	Total Variable Costs	The sum of all cost items above, Total Variable Costs is the marginal cost associated with making “one more” part of a give design. This includes all Variable Costs associated with the creation of a part but does not include depreciation of capital tooling.
Period Costs	Period Overhead Allocations	Period or indirect overheads are expenses that are expensed each financial period (factory depreciation, light bills, SG&A) that cannot be associated or amortized to a specific design.
Margin	Margin	The profit margin charged on each part/assembly. Calculated by multiplying a margin percentage value by the sum of the above costs. The margin percentage defaults to 0 in the Regional Data Libraries but can be configured by customers.
Piece Part Cost	Piece Part Cost	The sum of all cost items above, Piece Part Cost is cost of making a part, including margin if applied but excluding Fixed (tooling-related) Costs.
Fixed Costs	Hard Tooling (amortized)	Capital or hard tools are purchased for creating one specific design and cannot be used to create others.
	Fixture Cost (amortized)	Devices used to hold a specific part or assembly in the correct orientation on a machine during manufacture or assembly. Fixtures and jigs under the Fixed Cost category are created for a specific design. It is assumed that these fixtures will not be re-used on a different design in the future.
	Programming Cost (amortized)	The cost of creating a computer program that Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machines will follow to make or assemble parts of a specific design.
	Additional Amortized Investments	Other miscellaneous costs not accounted for in the above categories.
	Total Amortized Investments	The sum of all fixed costs. Fixed costs must be incurred before the first part or assembly of a given assembly can be made. In aPriori, all fixed costs are amortized to the individual part or assembly by dividing the total, up-front cost for the fixed cost (the capital cost) by the Total Product Volume.
Fully Burdened Cost	Fully Burdened Cost	For parts, the sum of Piece Part Cost and Fixed Costs. For assemblies, the sum of Fully Burdened Cost of Assembly Processes and Fully Burdened Cost of Subcomponents. For Roll-ups, the sum of Piece Part Cost and Fixed Costs for all first level children (parts, assemblies, roll-ups). (See A note about Fully Burdened Cost.)
Unit Cost	Unit Cost	For assemblies, the unit cost is the cost of one part, regardless of the quantity of parts in the assembly.
Capital	Hard Tooling	Capital or hard tools are purchased for creating one specific design and cannot be used to create others. The Capital Cost is the price to buy one set of the tooling.
	Fixture Cost	Devices used to hold a specific part or assembly in the correct orientation on a machine during manufacture or assembly. Fixtures and jigs under the Fixed Cost category are created for a specific design. It is assumed that these fixtures will not be re-used on a different design in the future. The capital cost is the price to buy one set of the tooling.
	Programming Cost	The cost of creating a computer program that Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machines will follow to make or assemble parts of a specific design.
	Total Capital Investment	Capital investment is the total amount a company must invest in fixed costs before the first part or assembly can be made. This cost is fixed because the company incurs the cost whether it makes one part or the total number of parts allowable before tooling must be refurbished or replaced.