The Surface Treatment process group enables estimation of manufacturing costs for a variety of cleaning and finishing processes. If you have licensed the Surface Treatment module, Surface Treatment processes are available to be included in all other Process Group routings, so that you can estimate the complete cost of manufacturing and finishing a part or assembly.

The default Surface Treatment processes available in aPriori include:

For some surface treatment processes (for example, Wet Coat Line), each machine represents a workcenter configuration that can include options such as number of operators staffing the line and paint type/unit cost. You should determine which machine best represents the actual manufacturing environment relevant to the part.

For most Surface Treatment processes, aPriori auto-selects the default machine (see Surface Treatment Machine Selection for exceptions). If you feel another machine better represents the actual manufacturing environment, you can manually select a different machine using the Edit Machine Selection window which lists the properties of all machines available at the facility.