Manufacturing Process Models
Optimize Your Manufacturing Processes for Cost, CO2e, and DFM
aPriori’s Manufacturing Process Models (MPMs) simulate production methods and routings with an unmatched level of precision and speed. aPriori enables companies to simulate 440+ manufacturing processes – including additive manufacturing, assembly, casting & forging, composites, electronics, heat & surface treatment, machining, metal fabrication, and plastics. Using 3D CAD models, aPriori’s simulation engine breaks down the 3D CAD design into geometric cost drivers to allow for detailed, accurate, and fast analysis of part cost, carbon, and optimal manufacturing routing.
MPMs are a central part of aPriori’s Manufacturing Insights Platform, which empowers companies to optimize products for cost, sustainability, and manufacturability. Using aPriori’s automated insights, manufacturers have the visibility to optimize each step of the product process to capture additional savings, reduce carbon emissions, and address supply chain risks proactively.
aPriori Manufacturing Process Model Capabilities
aPriori’s mechanistic analysis engine simulates hundreds of manufacturing processes and calculates associated costs with precision. Features include:
Robust process capability and routing rules, including:
- Available process & routing selections
- Machine feasibility
- Routing rules
- Generic conceptual detailed (GCD) relationship rules
Simulation insights, including:
- Process cycle time calculation
- Material utilization
- Tooling costs
- Tool wear/life info.
- Manufacturability analysis & guidance
Unmatched Manufacturing Process Breadth and Depth
Enhanced with Sustainability Insights
Enhanced with Design for Manufacturing (DFM) Capabilities
Additive Manufacturing
- Direct Metal Laser Sintering
- Material Jetting
- Powder Metal
- Selective Laser Sintering
- Stereolithography
Assembly
- Adhesive Bonding
- Mechanical Fastening
- Sealing
- Threaded Insert
- Welding
Casting & Forging
- Closed Die Forging
- Die Casting
- Investment Casting
- Ring Rolled Forging
- Sand Casting
Composites
- Automated Fiber Placement
- Automated Tape Layup
- Hand Layup
Electronics
- PCB Fabrication
- PCB Assembly
- Wire Harness Assembly
Heat & Surface Treatment
- Aging, Stress Relief
- Anodize, Black Oxide
- Degreasing
- Electroplating
- Painting
- Powder Coat Cart
- Surface Hardening
- Through Hardening
Machining
- Machining of Casting,
Forging, Additive, and
Fabricated parts - Milling, Turning, Grinding,
Gear Making - Multi-Spindle Machining
- Stock Machining
Metal Fabrication
- Bar & Tube
- Extrusions
- Hard & Soft Tooled
- Stamping & Die Stamping
- Sheetmetal Hydroforming
- Sheetmetal Roll Forming
- Sheetmetal Stretch Forming
- Sheetmetal Transfer Die
Plastics
- Injection Molding
- Assembly Molding
- Assembly Plastic Molding
- Reaction Injection Molding
- Roto and Blow Molding
- Structural Foam Molding
- SMC Compression Molding
- Sheet Plastic
- Thermoforming
*Not all models are illustrated above
**Design guidance and sustainability insights not available for all processes yet
Empower cross-functional teams to gain greater accuracy for pre-production vehicle builds to save time and money.
Industrial Equipment
Achieve performance targets by quickly identifying and prioritizing components for cost reduction.
Aerospace & Defense
Design with new insights using process models to improve accuracy for cost, operating efficiency (weight), and sustainability.
High Tech Electronics
Gain early visibility into the cost impact of design decisions. And accelerate data analysis across multiple product lines and business units.
How Do aPriori Digital Twins Use Manufacturing Process Models?
aPriori’s digital twins connect teams and operations, empowering users to optimize the product development lifecycle across product designs, manufacturing processes, and production capabilities.
The aPriori Digital Process Twin uses manufacturing process models to simulate and identify the most appropriate production process. And together, manufacturers use the aPriori digital twins – aPriori Digital Product Twins, aPriori Digital Process Twins, and the aPriori Digital Factory Twins – to conduct “what if” scenarios to evaluate the impact of changes on cost, carbon, manufacturing process, and factory location.
