According to Frank Azzolino, President & CEO of aPriori Technologies (www.apriori.com), “There are a number of reasons why discrete manufacturers have been forced to take a “rear view” look at product costs --evaluating and allocating product costs well after production was underway.
In most organizations product cost estimates are developed by specialized organizations in cost engineering or VA/VE departments. In most cases, these cost estimates are created separately and independently of the people making the design, manufacturing, and sourcing decisions. This separation results in many decisions being made in a cost knowledge vacuum. The impact of these decisions is typically not known for at least a full financial period after production is well underway.”
Since this cost information is typically difficult to obtain and not readily available during the NPI process, manufacturers are forced to take an after-the-fact, rearward view of the decisions that were made during their NPI process.
The aPriori cost management platform alleviates these problems a number of different ways. By using innovative, patent protected technologies, aPriori is capable of using design information driven off of MCAD geometry, along with its ability to model production facilities (including machine capabilities, raw materials, and facility cost structure) and the specific cost accounting methodologies, accurate predictive, “forward looking” real time cost estimates are created.
“aPriori has customers in a variety of industries including High Technology, Industrial Equipment, Automotive, and Heavy Machinery. Recent customers include John Deere, Panasonic, Thomas & Betts, Flextronics, JLG, and Dana Corporation.”
Contact:
John Busa
aPriori
978-371-2006
jbusa@apriori.com
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