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WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND
MAKING PROFITABILITY & SUSTAINABILITY A REALITY FOR A BETTER WORLD
Learn how aPriori’s customers are using manufacturing insights technology to improve profitability, deliver innovative new products to market as efficiently as possible, and calculate and reduce carbon emissions from their manufacturing operations. Hear from global manufacturing powerhouses like Scania, Spirit AeroSystems, Carrier, Signify, and more. The event is designed to meet the specific needs of designers and engineers, cost engineers, sourcing specialists, and manufacturers who are struggling with inflation, accelerating cash flow, and managing new sustainability regulations.
Registration includes all access to an immersive, 2-day Manufacturing Insights experience.
Designing for Manufacturability
Product Sustainability
Supply Chain Collaboration
Case Study & Keynote Announcements
Design "In" Manufacturability with aPriori
The more an engineer knows about the manufacturability and cost of their new designs, the better they can “design in” manufacturability. aPriori provides AGCO's design engineers the details they need such as key cost attributes when they are actively designing the part.
Digital Business Transformation Through aPriori
In homes, in buildings and across the cold chain, customers around the world count on Carrier for innovative solutions to meet the most essential needs with their heating, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration, and fire and security equipment. Carrier will share how they have digitized their cost engineering process with aPriori and their plans to maximize the effectiveness of manufacturing insights across business units.
Should Cost: aPriori & Signify
Signify, the number one leader in connected, LED, and conventional lighting, will discuss the transformation and automation of should costing with aPriori within Signify's procurement and R&D teams.
TICKET PRICES
$595
Early Bird Discount
Early bird discount expires Sep 15, 2022
$695
aPriori Customers
Regular Conference Price For aPriori Customers
$795
General Public
Regular Conference Price For Non aPriori Customers
LOCATION
Boston Marriott Long Wharf
296 State Street
Boston, Massachusetts, USA 02109
+1 617-227-0800
2022 CONFERENCE AGENDA
8:30AM - 12:00PM
Intro to Cost Insight Design | Pre-Conference Training
During this introductory course focused on the design engineer, students will see and then perform labs on core aPriori concepts, loading and costing parts, assemblies, and collaboration to become proficient in the core abilities, capabilities, and user interface of Cost Insight Design. This course is an additional fee and is not included in the conference registration.
Beacon Faneuil
1:00PM - 5:00PM
Design for Manufacturability and Cost in aP Profesional | Pre-Conference Training
During this course, participants will learn the fundamental principles behind Design for Manufacturability and Cost (DFMC) and the recommended workflows for various process groups. This course is an additional fee and is not included in the conference registration.
Beacon Faneuil
6:00pm - 10:00pm
Welcome Cocktail Reception & Registration
Harbor View Ballroom
7:30am - 8:30am
Coffee & Breakfast
Palm Garden
8:30am - 8:45am
Kickoff Address & Agenda Review
Philippe Adam, aPriori Chief Marketing Officer
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Salons A-L
8:45am - 9:15am
Making Profitability & Sustainability a Reality for a Better World
Is it possible to implement a strategy for Sustainable Manufacturing and still deliver profitable products to market? aPriori lets you optimize both at the same time. Learn more in this keynote session from aPriori's President and CEO.
Stephanie Feraday, aPriori President & CEO
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Salons A-L
9:20am - 9:45am
Case Study: Business Transformation through aPriori
aPriori offers many different software solutions to address key business challenges; however, there are not many companies that know how to pull them all together to gain maximum efficiency. Through this presentation we will touch on each and how Carrier has digitized the cost engineering process and will continue to maximize the effectiveness of aPriori across business units.
Tristan Abend, Carrier Corporation, Manager, Value Engineering
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Salons A-L
9:50am - 10:30am
Fireside Chat: Strategies for Overcoming Challenges with Today's Supply Chains
Join us for this fireside chat between aPriori President & CEO, Stephanie Feraday, and Rob Lidster, former Chief Procurement Officer of GE Appliances, as they discuss strategies to address lingering supply chain issues.
Rob Lidster, former CPO, GE Appliances; aPriori President and CEO, Stephanie Feraday
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Salons A-L
10:30am - 11:15am
Morning Coffee & Networking Break w/Technology Showcase
For those of you that love new technology, enjoy a cup of coffee, network with your peers and watch product demos of aPriori's latest and greatest technology innovations.
Ballroom Lobby
11:15am - 12:00pm
Interactive Skit: The Power of Teamwork
This group presentation and live demo of aPriori will focus on how to improve productivity and get your optimized products to market faster when your entire product team works together on a single cloud-based platform.
Team aPriori: James Ferguson, Cormac Eastwood, Barton Phinney, Gibson Peters, and Chris Jeznach
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Salons A-L
12:00pm - 12:25pm
Case Study: How Digitalization Helps Us Address the Labor Shortage
The US Machining Labor market is tightening due to labor availability. 75% of machinists in the US are over 45 years of age, and there is no easy solution to mitigate this challenge (Gartner). Woodward is working on this challenge in several ways. Join this presentation to learn how.
Chris Platz, Woodward, Global Commodity/Category Manager
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Salons A-L
12:30pm - 1:15pm
Lunch Break
Palm Garden
5 Tracks
Scroll to the right for additional tracks
Designing for
Manufacturability
Product designers and engineers will learn how to identify and eliminate design issues that could inflate manufacturing cost and slow time to product launch.
Design Engineering Tips for Reducing Manufacturing Costs on New Product Designs
A focused session keying in on DFM, minimizing setup costs, material selection, tolerances, material finishes, minimize waste, make vs buy, etc and how aPriori helps
Alison Leedham, aPriori
Salons HI
Comparing Design-to-Cost and Design-to-Value
What are the differences and how aPriori can help you with either and maintain profitability.
Matthew Hinshaw, aPriori
Salons HI
Afternoon Coffee Break/Technology Showcase
aP Pro Tips and Tricks - How to be More Productive on a Day to Day Basis, Learn from the aP Pros
A selection of the aPriori application engineers favorite time saving tips and productivity tricks to make you more productive.
Erik Osvold
Salons HI
Best Practices for Holistic Design
By thinking more holistically about the impact of product design and working with rest of the business, it can largely avoid unwanted, “surprise” costs.
Samuel Ellis
Salons HI
Product Sustainability
One of the hottest trends in product manufacturing today is the drive to build more sustainable products. Learn how aPriori digital factories can help your team calculate the CO 2 emissions generated by the manufacturing process for your products.
Design for Sustainability - How to Design Products with Lower Environmental Impact
Learn how aPriori's emerging Product Sustainability solution can help you move from Sustainability "Intent" to Sustainability "Action."
Mark Rushton, aPriori
Salons JK
Does Sustainable Design Have to be More Expensive?
How Can Sustainable Design Improve Profitability?
In this session, we will show how you can still design high performance products without increasing your costs by also making these products more sustainable.
Gibson Peters
Salons JK
Afternoon Coffee Break/Technology Showcase
Partnering for Sustainability
Join this panel discussion to hear how aPriori has been working with customers to advance our Sustainability solution that tracks CO 2 e emissions from product manufacturing. Panelists include representatives from the following aPriori customers: Scania, Heliogen, Google, Vestas, and Carrier Corporation.
Carsten Hochmuth, PhD, Director, Product Management, aPriori
Note Different Room for this Session: Salons A-L
Partnering for Sustainability (continued)
Live presentation and demonstration about aPriori current and planned capabilities related to the calculation of CO2 emissions from your manufacturing operations.
Gibson Peters, Product Manager, aPriori
Salons A-L
Supply Chain Collaboration
This track is for those in sourcing or cost estimators in the supply chain who want to learn how aPriori can facilitate a more lean, strategic relationship.
How to Mitigate Risk in a Changing Market Environment
With inflation, labor shortage, geopolitical disruption and more, how can you mitigate risk and utilize your cash flow smarter. In this session we will identify the different insights and strategies that will improve your supply chain resiliency.
Abe Chaves, aPriori
Quincy Haymarket
Sourcing Trust and Transparency through Shared Manufacturing Insights
aPriori will be rolling out a new collaboration capability called aP Workspace. Learn more about how this new solution can help product teams work more effectively and accelerate new innovations to market faster.
Barton Phinney
Quincy Haymarket
Afternoon Coffee Break/Technology Showcase
A Guide to Building Better Relationships Using Digital Factories
How to enable more efficient, fact-based conversations with your suppliers.
Ishan Bhide, aPriori
Quincy Haymarket
The Road to Zero RFQ
How to significantly improve your sourcing process by implementing quoteless sourcing strategies.
Tyler Kopydlowski
Quincy Haymarket
Experts Only
This is an advanced track for aPriori customers who have been using the product for a number of years and want to discuss more complex topics.
Managing Materials and Machines (Advanced)
How To: Use aP material scaling factors (with example and questions), strategies to manage digital factories and best practices from aPriori Expert Services.
Emily Davis
Beacon Faneuil
Utilizing aP Analytics to Get the Most out of Your aPriori Deployment
David McDermaid, aPriori
Beacon Faneuil
Afternoon Coffee Break/Technology Showcase
Common Configurations to Increase Efficiency of Costing in aPriori
Matthew Roy, aPriori
Beacon Faneuil
Leveraging Model Based Definition with aPriori
Chris da Rosa, aPriori
Beacon Faneuil
Executives (by invitation only)
This track is designed for Senior Business Executives and is by invitation only. The format of all 3 topics below will be moderated roundtable discussion.
Turning Inflation Disruptions into Competitive Differentiators
Discuss how automating manufacturing simulation can unlock significant product cost improvements. Also, discuss how supply chain disruption can be a catalyst to develop shorter supply chains with stronger climate credentials.
Moderators: Bernard Hensey, Former VP Commercial Business at Boeing Global Services; Adam Robbins, Principal Director, Accenture; Philippe Adam, Chief Marketing Officer, aPriori
Harbor View Ballroom
Design for X (DfX): A Game Changer for Manufacturers
Designing/redesigning critical products - the starting point to optimize product cost and develop a resilient supply chain. Along with that, DfX represents a unique opportunity for sourcing/cost engineering teams to create value beyond just cutting costs.
Moderators: Hank Marcy, Former VP Product Development, Johnson Controls/Hitachi; Vijay Natarajan, Partner, Deloitte
Harbor View Ballroom
Afternoon Coffee Break/Technology Showcase
When Sustainability Accelerates Innovation and Drives Growth
Discuss how to go from digital thread to green digital thread: adding sustainability impact to your digital twin, digital factories, and digital manufacturing processes to make profitability and sustainability a reality.
Moderators: Dominik Leisinger, Partner & Europe Lead Product Excellence(PERLab) at Kearney; Fadri Casty, Chief Commercial Officer, ecoinvent
Harbor View Ballroom
4:45pm - 5:15pm
Caresoft Case Study: Using Benchmarking to Gain a Competitive Edge
In today’s competitive market, any minor competitive edge is a major advantage. Caresoft’s technology and expertise for Benchmarking and Cost Reduction Interventions can be that competitive edge. See how Caresoft applies their award-winning benchmarking method to drive actionable results. Their unique DeltaCosting™ methodology and framework, utilizing aPriori where applicable, is transforming competitive benchmarking from weight-driven to cost-driven analytics to provide competitive intelligence on design fitness.
Arjun Nagendra, VP of Global Operations with Manojdeep Jasrotia, Director, Industrial and Manufacturing Services
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Salons A-L
5:15pm - 6:00pm
Break for eMail/VMail
TBD
4:00pm - 7:00pm
VIP Event
By invitation only
City Winery, North End, Boston
6:00pm - 10:00pm
Customer Appreciation Dinner
All conference attendees are invited to join us at Boston's historic Fenway Park for a fun night of backstage tours, a top-shelf dinner experience and a few other surprises along the way.
Fenway Park
7:30am - 8:30am
Coffee & Breakfast
Palm Garden
8:30am - 8:45am
Welcome & Agenda Review
Ranae Mogensen, aPriori Director, Marketing Communications & Public Relations
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Salons A-L
8:45am - 9:45am
aPriori Product Roadmap Presentation
Join our Product Management team to learn about our future product vision and plans for the next few years. This is always one of the top sessions of our conference every year. Don't miss it!
Fielder Hiss, aPriori Chief Product Officer & Members of the Product Management Team
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Salons A-L
9:45am - 10:00am
aPriori User Council Update
Hear from the leaders of the aPriori User Council why you should consider joining this group. The aPriori User Council helps us understand evolving market needs for our products.
Tristan Abend, Carrier and John Allen, Benchmark
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Salons A-L
10:00am - 10:30am
Morning Coffee Break & aPriori Inspiration Room
The aPriori Inspiration Room is a new concept this year. Meet aPriori Product Managers one on one to discuss your ideas for how we can improve our product. Individual stations will be setup to cover the following focus topics: * Creo Welds for aP Design * aP Expert Routing Proposal * Custom Outputs for Sourcing * Sustainability Feedback
Salons A-L
10:30am - 11:15am
Scania Case Study: Our Journey to Sustainable Manufacturing
This session will start off with a special introduction from Bernard Swiecki of the Center for Automotive Research. He will share some interesting data around the accelerating evolution of electric vehicles in the market. This introduction will be followed by a case study of how Scania has been able to add CO 2 e calculation as a product target in development process. Attendees last year may remember this presentation. This year we will reveal how the implementation has been refined and grown over the past year.
Center for Automotive Research, Bernard Swiecki and Director, Research Scania, Daniel Rosner, Technical Manager
|11:15am - 12:00
Case Study: Should Cost X 8
In this motivating case study, aPriori customer Signify will discuss the significant cost savings they have been able to realize using aPriori for should costing analysis.
Signify, Arnold Chatelain & Robert Ottens
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Salons A-L
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lunch Break
Palm Garden
Commodity Analysis
Case Studies
Plastic Molding
Leverage the tips & techniques from our product experts to drive more value from the plastics molding manufacturing process model.
Andy Clarke
Salons HI
Compression Molding (of Sheet Molding Compound)
Check out this new manufacturing process model.
Andy Clarke, aPriori
Salons HI
Sheet Metal Roll Forming
Here's another new manufacturing process model. Join this session to learn more.
Jimi Diedesch, aPriori
Salons JK
Assemblies & Welding
Major upgrades to these process models was introduced in the most recent product release. Join this session to learn more.
Mark Gormley, aPriori
Salons JK
PCB & PCBA
Get an overview of the PCB & PCBA cost model with a focus on how to analyze the aPriori cost estimates as well as tips for costing PCBAs
Lily Thomas, aPriori
Quincy Haymarket
Additive Manufacturing
Is additive manufacturing right for you? Learn how aPriori can help you identify the break even point for additive vs subtractive manufacturing.
Cormac Eastwood
Quincy Haymarket
Spirit AeroSystems
Spirit will share results they have experienced from using aPriori for DTC analysis and cost trade studies for 6+ years.
David McGinley & Hank Marcy
Salons A-L
Kone
Kone will detail how they use aPriori for should costing, illustrating the old way vs. the new way of costing using aPriori.
Jagan Thanigachalam, Sr Specialist, Should Costing, Kone
Salons A-L
AGCO
The more an engineer knows about the manufacturability and cost of their new designs, the better they can “design in” manufacturability. Learn how AGCO uses aPriori to do so.
Stan Kroeker, Sr. Engineering Specialist, AGCO
2:30pm - 2:45pm
Conference Wrap-Up
Join aPriori President & CEO, Stephanie Feraday, as she concludes the conference with key takeaways, fun prizes, and more!
Salons A-L