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.
• Tooling Cost and Tool Life: In previous releases, tooling cost calculations assumed that a single tool lasts long enough to produce the production volume specified in any scenario. In this release, the cost model estimates the number of parts that can be produced with a given tool before it wears to the point that it needs to be replaced. Based on that estimate, the cost model determines the number of tools required to manufacture the specified production volume, and accounts for that number of tools in total hard tooling cost.
Tool life is accounted for in the tooling cost calculations for the process Compaction Pressing. Tool-life estimation is based on part material, tool material, and tool coating type. For a given costing, either the formula Dependencies or Investment tab displays the number of tools assumed by tooling cost calculations.
With default production volumes (5,500 parts annually for 5 years), hard tooling cost is not affected by this change, as only one tool is required. With production volumes that require multiple tools, hard tooling cost increases compared to previous releases.
• Improved Estimation of Tool Machining and Tool Material Costs: this release includes improved data for tool material costs as well as improved estimation of tool machining costs. As a result, hard tooling cost has been observed to increase an average of about 20%, compared to the previous release. Fully burdened cost has been observed to increase an average of about 1%.