High-Velocity
Product Development

Reduce design iteration time from “40 hours to a few minutes”

Overview
Remove the bottlenecks from your Design team. Enhance design momentum by eliminating the need to search for information, which is crucial for informed design decision-making. Accelerate innovation and bring better products to market faster. aPriori’s manufacturing insights remove the roadblocks and guesswork from product development, unlocking the ability to design smarter, collaborate cross-functionally seamlessly, and make informed decisions earlier - when they have the greatest impact on cost, quality, and sustainability.

Challenges Today & aPriori Solutions

Turn Product Complexity Into Competitive Advantage

Today's manufacturers face increasing pressure to launch higher quality products, faster and more sustainably. aPriori helps you overcome critical challenges with AI-powered design and manufacturing intelligence.

Competition Launching Products Faster to Market

Accelerated Design-for-X (DFX) Transforming engineering decisions with real-time, quantified intelligence.

Work Faster, Together with Cross-Functional Collaboration Unite engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing around a single source of truth.

Products Launches Missing Set Targets

(i.e. Cost, Weight, Carbon)

Increase Market Agility with Cost-Optimized Designs
Lower product cost through smarter design, increases flexibility, competitiveness, and speed of responding to market opportunities.

Scale Faster with Manufacturing-Ready Designs
Ensure every design can be built efficiently and reliably.

Future-Proof Your Product Portfolio With Sustainability-Driven Engineering
Make sustainability a design requirement, not an afterthought.

Automated Design-for-X (DFX)

Transform engineering decisions with real-time, quantified intelligence.

aPriori elevates Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and Design for eXcellence (DFX) by replacing subjective opinions with objective, data-driven guidance. Designer Engineers receive insight into manufacturability, cost, sustainability, weight, and performance trade-offs — enabling smarter decisions earlier in the development cycle.

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See how Quantified Design Guidance from aPriori transforms Product Development.

Your Challenges

Manufacturer feedback takes too long.

Design reviews take too much time.

Lack of available data to drive decisions.

Our Solutions

Evaluate DFM/DFX interactively as you develop designs.

Get cost, CO₂e and manufacturing insights in real time.

Run fully automated DFM/DFX analyses upon PLM check-in.

Free up more time for design, less time waiting for feedback.

Work Faster, Together with Cross-Functional Collaboration

Unite engineering, sourcing, and manufacturing around a single source of truth.

With aPriori, cross-departmental design review collaboration becomes embedded. Teams can view, share, and comment on digital manufacturing intelligence in real time, accelerating design cycles and improving decision-making.

See how aP Workspace brings all stakeholders together.

Your Challenges

Limited early collaboration leading to late-stage changes and rework.

Misaligned priorities across each team.

Inconsistent, lengthy feedback loops delay overall progress.

Our Solutions

Enable cross-functional 3D reviews with manufacturing, cost and sustainability data.

Improves communication between design, manufacturing cost, and supply-chain teams.

Shrinks review cycles and shortens time-to-approval for new designs.

Increase Market Agility with Cost-Optimized Designs

Lower product cost through smarter design, increases flexibility, competitiveness, and speed of responding to market opportunities.

aPriori’s digital factories simulate real-world manufacturing to reveal the true cost drivers in your designs. Engineers can explore cost trade-offs instantly and make design choices that meet performance and budget goals.

How CNH evaluates cost throughout the design cycle.

Your Challenges

No visibility into cost drivers at the point of design.

Cost evaluations from other departments or suppliers take too long.

Balancing multiple design criteria to achieve an optimal solution.

Our Solutions

Provides real-time cost feedback directly from 3D CAD.

Identifies cost-driving features in the design.

Enables early optimization opportunities to avoid late-stage redesigns.

Scale Faster with Manufacturing-Ready Designs

Ensure every design can be built efficiently and reliably.

aPriori’s manufacturability analysis identifies production risks—like tight tolerances, deep pockets, or complex geometries driving additional processes —long before prototypes or tooling. Engineers can optimize designs early to ensure smooth manufacturing handoffs.

How Dana leverages aP Design.

Your Challenges

Tribal knowledge around manufacturability and design decisions.

Lack of DFM skilled workforce entering the profession.

Lack of automated DFM analysis tools, making reviews manual and time-consuming.

Our Solutions

Validates manufacturing processes digitally, to detect build issues and inefficiencies.

Suggests design changes that improve yield and reduce cycle time.

Minimizes production delays and quality concerns.

Future-Proof Your Product Portfolio With Sustainability-Driven Engineering

Make sustainability a design requirement, not an afterthought.

aPriori quantifies the environmental impact of the manufacturing process during design, giving teams the data to make greener decisions that don’t sacrifice cost or performance. Evaluate CO₂e footprint, energy usage, and material impact—all before production begins.