CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
20 May 2009
Implementation Investments
Gardner Denver to Implement aPriori for Product Cost Management
aPriori announced that Gardner Denver, a leading provider of compressed air and gas, vacuum and fluid transfer technologies to industries throughout the world, has selected the aPriori Product Cost Management Platform to support its product cost reduction initiatives. With aPriori, Gardner Denver will increase its ability to drive costs out of its products both pre- and post-production using real-time product cost assessments that are generated automatically throughout design, sourcing and manufacturing processes.
“aPriori will help Gardner Denver continue to develop and deliver highly innovative products that meet our internal cost targets by enabling instant visibility to the costs of each and every tradeoff decision our engineers make,” said Neville Kapadia, Vice President of Product Development at Gardner Denver. “In a pilot test of the system, our employees used aPriori to identify some impressive savings on our products. We expect those results to increase significantly when using aPriori full-time.”
“With aPriori, companies know how much a product should cost to manufacture at every point in the product development process. With real-time cost feedback, employees make more-informed decisions that ultimately result in lower product costs,” said Stephanie A. Feraday, President and CEO of aPriori.
The aPriori Product Cost Management Platform is the first software solution to provide discrete manufacturers and product companies with real-time, predictive and precise product cost assessments throughout the development and production process. aPriori’s cost management capabilities empower organizations to identify quantifiable savings in material, tooling, labor and overhead when evaluating alternative designs, manufacturing processes and sources.
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