PCB Costing Workflow

Instead of using the standard Cost Guide that you would typically use for costing mechanical part, you start the costing process with a PCBA button that appears when aPriori has been configured for PCBA costing.

To cost a PCBA, aPriori requires the following inputs:

1 A Bill of Materials (BOM) spreadsheet from your PCBA design tool in a standardized, .csv format.

2 Standard prices for purchased components, typically in the form of a Component Library that is initially configured by aPriori Professional Services, and thereafter maintained by an aPriori administrator at your company, mapping your Customer Part Numbers to Manufacturer Part Numbers.

3 User inputs in the form of values provided via the PCBA Costing dialog box that appears when you click the PCBA button (or later as individual PSO settings).

The following diagram provides a more high-level view of the PCBA costing workflow:

aPriori does not make any assumptions about which specific PCBA design tool is being used. The one assumption that we do make is that the tool can output a BOM spreadsheet file to a .csv table format that you can modify. aPriori imports this spreadsheet with the aPriori BOM loader.