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Manufacturing Simulation Software for
Auto & Transportation
Innovate Faster with Digital Factories and Protect Your Bottom Line
The auto and transportation industry is experiencing an incredibly disruptive period. Even global
powerhouses are being consistently challenged by nimble, fast-paced, upstart competitors. And
new business models are forcing global OEs to adapt faster than their technology can handle.
Digital manufacturing simulation software gives you the advantage you need to innovate, cost,
source, and manufacture faster, all while saving your bottom line.
Product Development Challenges
Government Regulations
Compliance with escalating governmental regulations around fuel efficiency, emissions and
safety are resulting in an advancement in technologies and a shift toward more electrification
of vehicles.
Global Sourcing Strategies
Implementing highly innovative global sourcing strategies designed to quickly adapt to a changing landscape of suppliers and consumer demand.
Innovative New Technologies
Shifts in powertrain design to accommodate the trend towards electric vehicles. Major investments are being made to develop autonomous vehicles that leverage connectivity between vehicles and surrounding infrastructure.
Digital Manufacturing Benefits
Early Visibility to Manufacturability and Cost
aPriori's automated design for manufacturability (DFM) and design to cost (DTC) capabilities enable non-experts to easily identify potential
manufacturability issues, cost drivers, evaluate design alternatives, and design products to
achieve a specific target cost.
Achieve Product Launch Dates More Consistently
It’s imperative that manufacturers hit their product launch dates, especially with a whole
new class of emerging competitors pushing the needle. Use manufacturability analysis to
eliminate the time-consuming and costly process of engineering change orders (ECOs)
right before release to manufacturing.
Increase Margins and Profitability
Conduct feature/value tradeoffs that represent product variants for different global markets.
Automate manufacturing cost estimates for parts, assemblies and tooling to enable
fact-based negotiations and more strategic collaboration with suppliers.
Predict and Reduce Costs for Capital Investments
Complete detailed analyses of dies and molds for program level roll ups and improved
negotiation with supplier.
aPriori Solutions for Auto and Transportation Industry
aP Generate
Connect aPriori to your PLM system for automated manufacturability analysis upon check-in of new or modified CAD designs.
aP Design
Utilize heat mapping and cycle time reports to quickly identify and resolve manufacturing cost drivers in every auto part you design. And get your design right the first time
aP Analytics
Detailed reports of cost data for your auto parts. Create custom dashboards to consistently monitor new product initiatives against design to cost targets.
aP Pro
Remove cumbersome and costly department silos and bring everyone onto the same page. Realize collaboration among design, cost engineering, and sourcing all in one place.
Manufacturing Cost Models for Your Industry
Working with major manufacturers, industry specific suppliers and our own manufacturing experts, we have developed the world's most innovative and automated manufacturing cost models specific to your industry. With aPriori, auto and transportation companies will get specific cost models including:
For a complete list of all supported manufacturing processes, download this data sheet (PDF).
“It would normally take spreadsheets to get a piece and tooling cost estimate for an instrument panel or a fascia. This would probably take you a month since you’d need to extract measurements from CAD and make many assumptions. However, aPriori simplifies this process by automatically generating cost estimates for you, and I saved millions and millions on tooling using the software.”
— Terry Hammer, Vice President of Engineering, Dana Incorporated
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