Optimal Lifecycle Costing is a Team Sport

A Complimentary Webinar with CIMdata and aPriori
Featuring:
Stan Przybylinski, Vice President, CIMdata
Stephanie Feraday, President & CEO, aPriori
Julie Driscoll, Vice President, Strategic Marketing & Product Management, aPriori

November 8, 2016
11:00  EST | 08:00  PST | 17:00 CEST

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Do any of the following statements sound a little too familiar?

• We struggle to develop accurate cost estimates.
• We lack understanding of the manufacturing processes necessary to make specific components.
• Information we produce can be siloed in different functions and systems.
• Our suppliers are increasingly more deeply involved in product ideation, design, manufacturing, and even lifecycle deployment. Picking the lowest cost supplier often results in more scheduling and cost/price issues, not fewer.

In today’s economy manufacturing companies are facing competition from all sides. While global competition makes the headlines, these same companies increasingly face new competitors at home using new approaches, new materials, and new value chains. Companies are looking at different ways to optimize design. At one time it was “design for assembly” or “design for maintenance.” Now companies need to optimize their product designs and manufacturing processes across a range of needs, which CIMdata often refers to as DFx. Studies have shown that up to 85% of product costs are committed early in the lifecycle, making product cost management (PCM) an important design consideration.

What will I learn by attending this webinar?

• You will find out how product cost management fits into product development and deployment.
• You will be able to identifying which functions can best contribute to product cost analysis and management.
• You will learn how leading companies are implementing product cost management.
• You will gain an understanding about the benefits of working in the context of a single source of truth.

Plan to join this webinar if you want to:

• Understand the role of product cost management as part of a systems view of development.
• Better understand how product cost management can be used both tactically and strategically.
• Learn from the experience of leading companies using PCM.

Who should attend?

• Product planners and managers
• Design engineers
• Manufacturing engineers
• PLM team leaders
• PLM team members
• PLM users
• Field service personnel
• Product managers
• IT leadership
• Solution providers
• Anyone who wants to learn more about product cost management processes

During the webinar you’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions about the topics discussed.