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.

• In previous releases, aPriori estimated pick-and-place assembling costs for uninitialized (that is, not-yet-costed) assembly components, as well as for manually-costed assembly components (those costed in the Manually Costed process group). This estimate was based on an estimate of the component’s mass that assumed the material density of a common steel material. The estimated mass was displayed in the Finish Mass field of the Assembly Details tab

In this release, assembly pick and place costs are no longer estimated for such components. Un-costed and manually-costed components display a value of 0 in the Finish Mass field of the Assembly Details tab. Values are computed and displayed for Finish Mass and pick-and-place costs only if either the component has been costed or a Finish Mass value was specified for the component by using the BOM Loader capability.