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Apprenticeships + Digital Initiatives: Solve Labor Shortages and Accelerate Future Talent

Digital manufacturing apprenticeships pair paid training and mentors with tech to close skills gaps and retain workers.

aPriori Receives Frost & Sullivan Award for Digital Manufacturing Innovation

Frost & Sullivan awards aPriori 2022 innovation honor for cloud digital manufacturing platform accelerating design, costing, sourcing, sustainability.

Unlock Critical Manufacturing Insights with Digital Factories

Digital factories connect cost, manufacturability, and CO2e insights to guide smarter designs, sourcing, and faster, sustainable production.

Address Labor Shortages to Ensure Productive, Cost-Effective Product Lifecycle Management

Manufacturing insights platforms integrate with PLM to automate costing and DFM, easing labor shortages and boosting productivity.

Top-8 Manufacturing Challenges for 2022

Eight manufacturing challenges—from reshoring to skills gaps—and practical digital-factory strategies to boost resilience, sustainability, and speed.

Understanding How to Utilize the Digital Factory

Digital factories simulate production from CAD, delivering DFM/DTC insights, should-cost models, and real-time collaboration across product development.

2022 and Beyond Manufacturing Industry Outlook: Priorities for Navigating the Road Ahead

Four 2022 manufacturing priorities: sharpen digital transformation strategy, diversify supply chains, automate amid skills gaps, and speed time-to-market.

Driving Business Value through Digital Automation and Manufacturing Intelligence

How manufacturers use digital transformation, automation, supplier collaboration, and manufacturing intelligence to move faster in an uncertain economy.

Customer & Innovation Highlights from the Cost Insight Conference 2021

Highlights top Cost Insight Conference 2021 sessions on automation, digital tools, battery systems, simulation, and customer cost journeys.

Will It Be More Or Less Cost Effective To Additively Manufacture That Part?

Compare additive vs casting for actuator housing using digital simulation; learn volume breakpoints and cost drivers in under two hours.

3 Ways the Pandemic is Driving Digital Transformation in Manufacturing

Survey reveals manufacturing’s digital gap post-COVID: most lack digital tech, NPI shifting, and costing consistency rising—time to transform.