Details: Changes to Baselines that DO NOT affect Customer VPEs

The following changes are available in the aPriori Baseline VPEs only. If you wish to take advantage of these new capabilities, the VPE needs to be upgraded to the most recent Cost Model version. Please contact your VPE Admin or aPriori Account Manager to plan work.

• Material Cost and Scrap Credit: In previous releases, the cost model always assumed that material scrap and part scrap (material from scrapped parts) was not sold for credit. In this release, the same assumption is made by default in starting point VPEs, but VPE administrators can enable scrap credit by default with the cost model variables enableScrapMaterialCredit and enableScrapPartCredit. In addition, users can override the default on a per-part basis with the setup options Enable Scrap Material Credit and Enable Scrap Part Credit.

If material scrap credit and/or part scrap credit is enabled, utilization increases and material cost decreases. Part scrap credit includes credit for parts scrapped by this process as well as by downstream processes. The credit rate is specified as a percentage of the material rate by the material property Scrap Cost Percent.

The Stock Machining process group may be impacted by the changes in the Machining process group. Please review the impact assessment in the Secondary Machining process group.