CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
3 February 2010
Product News
New aPriori 2010 Product Release Introduces Turning & Mechanical Assembly Costing
aPriori announced the immediate availability of its latest product release - aPriori 2010. This new release represents the largest undertaking in the company’s history, featuring two entirely new costing modules and an extensive suite of new capabilities added to the core product.
Some of the key highlights of aPriori 2010 include:
Turning cost model – compliments existing milling / holemaking cost capabilities in aPriori’s core Machining module by allowing customers to generate cost estimates for a wide variety of turned parts.
Mechanical Assembly cost model – extends aPriori’s capability to cost welded assemblies by adding manual line and bench assembly operations; with this new capability, customers will be able to quickly calculate a complete assembled cost for their products.
Enhanced Plastic Mold cost model – extensively upgrades the existing injection molding cost model, and enables the product to support more advanced forms of plastics manufacturing, including: multi-shot injection molding, rotational molding, blow molding and insert molding.
SolidEdge CAD Support – provides support to cost parts and assemblies modeled in SolidEdge. This compliments aPriori’s current support for Pro/ENGINEER, CATIA v5, Siemens NX, Inventor, Solidworks and STEP.
Simplified Creation of Virtual Factories
aPriori’s Virtual Production Environments (VPE) are digital representations of manufacturing factories, and are at the heart of aPriori’s Product Cost Management solution. In the last major product release this past summer, aPriori 7 first introduced the capability for customers to manage their own VPE data, and provided a capability to copy and create entirely new VPEs. This capability allows our customers to rapidly build entirely new factories to study the cost associated with manufacturing in LCCs, evaluate the impact of anticipated material cost fluctuations, understand the impact of labor rate increases and more. With the introduction of aPriori 2010, VPE management and customization features have been advanced even further.
For example, aPriori has streamlined the process for making or editing VPEs by enabling a customer to bulk add their new material list (both compositions and sheet sizes) and bulk import machine data. By streamlining and simplifying the process of creating new VPEs, customers will have more time to study a wider range of tradeoff decisions that will ultimately help them drive down product costs.
Enhanced Costing for Product Assemblies
Working in close cooperation with aPriori’s growing list of Fortune 500 customers, a significant amount of time was invested for this release in advancing product assembly costing capabilities. In addition to the introduction of an entirely new Mechanical Assembly process cost model, the following new features have been implemented:
The Assembly Tracker – aPriori implemented a dashboard feature which allows users to view the cost status of an assembly and a summary of its costs. In addition to providing charts on the cost breakdown of the assembly, this tab shows a graphical status on the number of components cost, the completeness of the component costs, the types of costs (e.g., mfg. estimate, engineering estimate, carry over etc.), and the factories where the components are made.
Secondary Operations on Assemblies - aPriori has improved the ability to apply secondary operations on assemblies such as machining, painting or plating. By providing more expansive support for secondary operations, aPriori continues its commitment to its customers of helping them to achieve the most complete cost possible for the widest range of product types.
The capabilities above represent the highlights of this important product release. For more detailed information, please visit the aPriori 2010 product launch page on our corporate website for more details: http://www.apriori.com/apriori_2010_productlaunch.htm
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