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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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How to Navigate Economic Headwinds with Digital Twin Manufacturing Data

Webinar highlights how digital thread, integrated procurement, and enterprise-wide transformation help manufacturers weather permanent volatility and downturns.

Overcoming Global Supply Chain Issues Through Cost Engineering

Supply chain turmoil demands cost engineers and simulation-driven manufacturing intelligence to rapidly evaluate suppliers, costs, risks, and sustainability.

aPriori Receives Frost & Sullivan Award for Digital Manufacturing Innovation

Frost & Sullivan awards aPriori 2022 innovation honor for cloud digital manufacturing platform accelerating design, costing, sourcing, sustainability.

Top-5 Cost Reduction Engineer Challenges of Today

Cost-reduction engineers drive design-to-cost, but face five pitfalls—slow methods, silos, TCO gaps, infrequent analysis, culture resistance.

Kearney Insights: How to Build a Modern Costing Department

Webinar highlights building modern costing departments for disruption: transparency, scenario simulation, automation, and inflation-ready should-cost negotiation.

How to Transform Product Cost Engineering for Today’s Future

Future-proof cost engineering with manufacturing simulation: faster estimates, better collaboration, and scalable bandwidth to cut time-to-market.

Tackle These Ongoing Manufacturing Challenges Once and For All

Overcome labor shortages, supply chain chaos, inflation, and sustainability hurdles using manufacturing simulation—plus podcasts with executives and experts.

How Product Costing Software Turns Novices Into Cost Experts

Modern product costing software uses digital factories to deliver real-time, accurate cost insights, empowering teams and building cost-first culture.

Top-8 Manufacturing Challenges for 2022

Eight manufacturing challenges—from reshoring to skills gaps—and practical digital-factory strategies to boost resilience, sustainability, and speed.

Understanding How to Utilize the Digital Factory

Digital factories simulate production from CAD, delivering DFM/DTC insights, should-cost models, and real-time collaboration across product development.

2022 and Beyond Manufacturing Industry Outlook: Priorities for Navigating the Road Ahead

Four 2022 manufacturing priorities: sharpen digital transformation strategy, diversify supply chains, automate amid skills gaps, and speed time-to-market.

Customer & Innovation Highlights from the Cost Insight Conference 2021

Highlights top Cost Insight Conference 2021 sessions on automation, digital tools, battery systems, simulation, and customer cost journeys.