To import and cost a new wire harness

This section provides only a general, high-level summary of the steps you typically follow when costing a wire harness. Your administrators and aPriori Professional Services have worked together to provide procedures specific to your company. You should use the documentation for these customized procedures as your primary source of information.

1 In the aPriori client, click the Wire Harness button.

2 aPriori prompts you to specify whether you want to import a Wire Harness, import a formatted Wire Harness, or modify the settings of the currently open Wire Harness.

If you are costing a harness defined by a single .csv file in aPriori’s format then select Import New Formatted Wire Harness then click OK. (This is the most common situation.)

3 This displays the Import Formatted Wire Harness dialog, where you specify the wire harness file as well as production information such as VPE name and volume (similar to the Cost Guide for other process groups).

Note: It is critical that the Wire Harness Part Number provided in the Import Formatted Wire Harness dialog matches the part number for the wire harness in the .csv file. If they do not match, costing will fail.