aPriori & CNH
Profitability through DTC at Scale
CNH is a global manufacturer of equipment used in agriculture and construction. The Harvesting global product platform uses aPriori to design parts and assemblies for their combines, headers, and harvesters that get to market faster while surpassing standards for product cost.
How To Design to Cost at Scale: Achieve Profitable Products Faster

Watch the CNH Case Study video

Watch the interview with the Product Line VP, John Haupt, VP of Harvesting Product Platforms, CNH
User Interview: How aPriori Helps the Product Line VP Deliver Customer Value and Achieve Profitability
Our farmers are under continuous pressure for their input costs, and one of those significant input costs is the price of our machines. So, our responsibility as partners with our farmers is to have cost-effective products that they can buy. And that’s where aPriori comes in, helping make sure that the parts that we buy that go into our machines are being delivered efficiently, that they are designed efficiently right from the start, and that we can collaborate with our suppliers to get to the right cost levels and have a win-win with our suppliers.
User Interview: How aPriori Helps the Design to Value Engineer Discover $9 million in Savings

Watch the video with Design to Value Methodologist, Hemant Gawade, responsible for Product Cost Tools Management at CNH

Watch the video with CNH’s Global Chief Engineer for Combine Header, Ryan Figgins
User Interview: How aPriori Helps the Chief Engineer Reduce Design Churn
Design churn takes a lot of effort that I'm not sure everybody fully realizes because you've designed the part, you've developed the supply chain for the part, and you've gone through the entire effort of tooling the part and the validation of the part. And at product launch, for not meeting the business needs for that product, now we have to do a cost reduction project where we have to reinvest all that same amount of time to get the part or get the system down to the cost target. So, we're redoing all of that work again, which means that we're not putting that effort into developing new products that will benefit our customers in other ways. With aPriori, we don’t have to spend that time in design churn.
User Interview: How aPriori Helps the Design Engineers Speed Up Product Design with Cost and Manufacturability Feedback

User Interview: How aPriori Helps the Design Engineers Speed Up Product Design with Cost and Manufacturability Feedback
If there are holes too close to the edge of a sheet metal part, aPriori will watch out for features that can’t be manufactured and that has been very useful.
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