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Articles by Rick Burke
Rick Burke serves as the Vice President of Marketing at aPriori Technologies. He brings to aPriori 24 years of experience working with high-growth software technology companies such as Oracle’s Agile PLM Business, where he co-led the development of a highly successful global market development program.
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Profitability at MIC: A Deep Dive Into Gross Profit Margins

MIC 2023 profitability track delivers executive tactics for cost transformation, supplier leverage, design-for-profit, and building a cost-conscious culture.

MIC ‘23: Powerhouses to Speak on Manufacturing Digital Twins

Hear Boeing, Carrier, Eaton, GE Appliances, and Signify reveal how digital twins cut costs and carbon at MIC 2023.

5 Moves to Evolve from Cost Reduction to Cost Transformation

Turn inflation pressure into savings: audit parts, build should-costs, spot outliers, and negotiate suppliers with real data.

How The Digital Thread Ties Design, Sourcing, and Manufacturing Together

Connect product, process, and factory digital twins with a digital thread to eliminate bottlenecks, cut cost, and speed innovation.

6 Design for Manufacture Insights for Speed and Profitability

A roundup of manufacturing resources—articles, podcasts, and videos—to strengthen design and production decisions.

5 Blogs to Increase Profit Margins in the Design Stage

How manufacturing insights help design engineers cut costs early, balance value and sustainability, and boost profit margins.

Unlocking Profitability: Top Insights for Manufacturers in 2023 (So Far)

Explore top blogs, podcasts, and videos packed with practical tactics to cut costs and lift manufacturing profit margins.

Costing Resources to FastTrack Profitability: 5 Blog Posts, 3 Podcasts & 1 Case Study

Inflation-era profitability guide: blogs, podcasts, and a Carrier case study showing how to cut costs with manufacturing insights.

Read Our Top-5 Manufacturing Insights This Quarter

Quarterly roundup of aPriori’s top manufacturing insights on digital twins, sustainability, smart investments, and design optimization.

aPriori’s Top-7 Most Popular Procurement Posts of 2022

Explore aPriori’s top 2022 sourcing posts: sustainable procurement, collaboration, negotiation tips, and 2023 manufacturing challenges ahead.

3 Tips for Creating a Powerful Cost-Transparency Culture

Build a cost-transparency culture with leadership, collaboration, and digital simulation to cut costs, accelerate launches, boost profitability.

How to Build the Ultimate 2023 Should Costing Playbook

Build a should-costing playbook for 2023: unite cost engineers, digital models, and cross-team collaboration to negotiate better.