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aPriori provides design and sourcing Insights to unlock and identify new opportunities for reducing product cost and carbon footprint, optimizing manufacturing and supply chain risk, and improving design engineering and sourcing teams’ productivity. Their automated Insights Platform is used to reduce time to market, meet sustainability targets, and accelerate revenue growth.

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A Tool To Help To Boost Your Cost Estimation Process

Incentivized
Abhijeet SinghView profile
Post Graduate Engineering Trainee at INGERSOLL - RAND TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

aPriori is used to serve the following purpose: 1. To select strategic suppliers to procure parts 2. For make vs buy decision 3. Design engineers use to identify the cost of design 4. Selection of the right manufacturing process to manufacture a part 5. To validate the right suppliers, right manufacturing process, and the right location to procure. The end objective is to procure parts at optimal cost.

Pros

  • Design for manufacturing
  • Bulk cost
  • Vpe development
  • Defining the new Vpe or process
  • User defined costing

Cons

  • User defined process can be better
  • N/A

Most Important Features

  • Vpe
  • Cmwb
  • Bulk cost

Return on Investment

  • Negotiation with supplier with fact and figures
  • Help supplier and organization to select right process
  • Target cost

Alternatives Considered

Boothroyd Dewhurst DFMA Software

Other Software Used

Microsoft Excel, Boothroyd Dewhurst DFMA Software, Microsoft Power BI

Better service starts here

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Research & Development (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I found aPriori is a great tool that supports all stakeholders of any product lifecycle in the Design Development of Product Maintenance. Also found it as an excellent tool in the hands of a Designer to understand the impact of design on cost and identify design cost Issues and design rule violations early into the design phase. aPriori is also helping to understand the effect of alternate designs and processes.

Pros

  • Easy to understand algorithm.
  • In large databases, join and prune steps are easy to implement.
  • The resulting rules are intuitive and easy to communicate to an end user.

Cons

  • Dynamic itemset counting technique can add new candidate itemsets at any marked start point of the database during the scanning of the database.
  • The transaction reduction method reduces the number of transactions scanned in interactions. The transactions which do not contain frequent items are marked removed.
  • The sampling method picks a random sample from the database for frequent itemset. It may be possible to lose a global frequent itemset.

Most Important Features

  • aPriori is software for frequent itemset mining and association rule learning over a relational database.
  • This software uses two steps “join” and “prune” to reduce the search space.
  • aPriori proceeds by identifying the frequent individual items in the database and extending them to larger item sets as long as those item sets appear sufficiently often in the database.

Return on Investment

  • It improved our business model and strategies.
  • Provided get analytics for future view.
  • The main negative impact is that it is costly, a waste of time to hold a vast number of candidate sets with many frequent itemsets, low minimum support, or large itemsets.

Alternatives Considered

MATLAB

Other Software Used

MATLAB, Autodesk Fusion 360, Siemens Solid Edge

Advanced costing tool for better vision on product cost!!

Incentivized
Pankaj Singh RoutelaView profile
PGET- Cost Research, Cost Analysis & VA/VE center, DBS-(Product Cost Management) in Product Management at Danfoss (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Excellent cost model maturity level
  • Reliable data library for different regions
  • Precise should-cost have well-defined cost drivers
  • Spreadsheet report flexibility with cost insights

Cons

  • Cutting parameters and logic for milling process need to be reviewed and refined
  • Super-finishing processes need to be added

Return on Investment

  • Increased efficiency in delivering our projects.
  • Leverage to look into product cost at design level.
  • More saving realizations we can see and use for negotiation.

Alternatives Considered

GeneralCOST Estimator for Excel

Fact-based costing

Narendran DhanasekaranView profile
Cost Engineer in Product Management at Danfoss (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Sheet Metal-Process Group, Transfer Die is at the Best, which gives detailed operation setup for the Parts as well as shows the number of parts in the Sheet i.e nested Loop thereby reducing the Scrap as well (Scrap Management)
  • Forging-Steel: Very good for for medium and complex medium Hot Forging type parts. Machine overhead data is very detailed where facts are used for the negotiation i.e Electricity Rate, Power, Labour Rate, Maintenance rate, etc.
  • Surface Treatment / Other Secondary Process such as powder coating, wet coat, electro plating: These all work well. We can also use masking options the treatment, In the event of of any leak tests or X-Ray inspections, we can add the process which will then account the pre/post operation time for the treatments
  • 2-Model Machining: Machines and routing combinations are huge and can be used to determine the most economic way to produce these parts. We can also override to find the supplier methodology and cost. It gives very detailed information on the feed rate, speed rate, and power capacity.
  • Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerating (GD&T) can be added on the GCD's which will help detect the super finishing process, which is another advantage. In the current 2016 R2 SP, aPriori can detect it from the CAD Models
  • Design to Cost feature, provides the design engineers as well as cost engineers to understand the which feature take most cycle time and whether changing that feature reduces the complexity in machining thereby cycle time can be reduced

Cons

  • Investment Casting Model: We have a basic model where we have captured all the processes involved, but when logic is being missed in the same in process, we have to fine-tune it to make it as effective as other process groups.
  • Powder Metal technology: Similarly, we need more process setup options in order to provide more logic for manufacturing. It does have the basic manufacturing setup
  • Mass Volume Machining: Transfer machines, swiss lathes need to be incorporated for Mass and high-speed machining
  • Forging: Hollow Forging as well as forging of Non-Ferrous metal need to addressed as the Forging cost is too high

Return on Investment

  • No Negative Impacts
  • At our Organization, ROI is calculated in terms of time, speed, and value
  • Time: We can reduce the project implementation by a few days
  • Speed: Delivering the cost in a few hours compared to weeks in the past
  • Capacity: Tool helps to make things run parallel i.e bulk costing increases capacity
  • Value: Negotiations have resulted in savings with respect to list price

Other Software Used

aPriori Product Cost Management

Usability

Awesome aPriori

Andrew Arul Rose AView profile
Cost Engineer at Danfoss (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Speed and capacity
  • Bulk costing
  • Detailed cost analysis involving complex geometries of parts
  • Cost insight design
  • Product Cost management support

Cons

  • Customization of the cost logic is tricky.
  • Full products costing & process involved in the proprietary parts are less or not available for costing
  • Sheet metal logics for costing may be improved.
  • Focus on Electronics Cost models
  • Electronics - Component Costings

Return on Investment

  • We are able to set value based negotiations with the suppliers based on the facts or analysis generated by aPriori
  • We get good savings based on the facts provided.
  • We are good & consistent on the savings.

Other Software Used

AutoCAD

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