先验的,提供企业产品成本的人agement software solutions, today announced the latest release of its platform. aPriori 2015 R1 is designed to meet manufacturers’ growing cost management needs from product design and engineering, through strategic sourcing, manufacturing and assembly. The latest release provides more detailed cost estimates and flexible user controls to support sourcing activities and collaboration with suppliers. It also incorporates new capabilities for costing the increasing number of electrical components found in products across every industry today. The release is generally available immediately.
“In aPriori 2015 R1, we continue to evolve our platform to help manufacturers realize greater cost efficiencies and profits across a larger set of their products,” said Julie Driscoll, aPriori’s vice president of strategic marketing and product management. “In addition to enabling more employees to manage cost, we’re also providing manufacturers with the ability to cost more types of components. The new release also gives users more control to fine tune cost estimates to reflect the unique characteristics of their products and parts, as well as the capabilities of their suppliers. As a result, customers will be able to drive greater product cost efficiencies across their entire product lifecycle.”
先验的平台架构to provide real-time cost information on parts and complete products. The software leverages CAD and intelligent cost models to quickly determine feasible manufacturing methods and product costs while generating detailed manufacturing analysis and cost estimates that quantify the impact of changes to product design, materials, manufacturing processes, volumes and location in real time. aPriori also enables manufacturers to leverage product cost data hosted in other enterprise applications to communicate product cost information between all functional organizations involved in product definition and delivery. This includes the import of complex engineering Bills of Materials (BOMs) from ERP, PLM and other enterprise applications. The system also includes enterprise-quality business intelligence capabilities that provide intuitive, role-based insights for design, engineering, manufacturing, value-engineering and sourcing executives and managers.
Apriori2015 R1 expands on the platform with a number of new capabilities:
- 增强了用户管理和访问控制- 提供企业用户的灵活，基于规则的管理，以扩展使用全球IT安全要求。这可能包括控制按部门或位置对组件估计的访问。结果，制造商可以装备更多员工，以影响产品生命周期中发生的产品成本。
- 改善成本开销计算– enables more detailed estimates for cost engineering and sourcing. aPriori 2015 R1 incorporates baseline cost estimates that calculate material, direct and indirect overhead, and SG&A to provide a more accurate starting point for customer Virtual Production Environments (VPEs) used for estimating purchased components. The direct and indirect overhead rates are based on rich, bottoms-up calculations that can be accessed and modified within aPriori. This detail supports manufacturers looking for opportunities to reduce cost by examining supplier cost structure.
- Greater usability and control for fine tuning cost estimates- 在成本完善或与供应商的谈判期间对组件进行实时编辑时，可以确保可预测的，可理解的结果。这为用户提供了对成本输入的高度详细控制，以反映其产品，零件和供应商的独特方面。
- 用户指导的成本模型- 提供通过渐进式模具，舞台工具，炮塔压力和注入成型制造的成本成分。这些模型可以对用户没有CAD模型的组件进行准确的估计。
- Wire harness cost module- 通过使用户能够从输入表/文件中获取输入，而不是实体模型，可以实现许多电气零件中使用的电线线束的准确组件和组装成本。该功能最初是为高科技和电子制造商设计的，现在解决了当今几乎每个公司生产的组件。
- Machining cost model improvements– provide out of the box costing for a greater variety of parts with turned features. These include parts made from square or rectangular bars with turned features such as shafts, bosses, holes; “down-hole” components with off-center bores common in the oil and gas drilling industry; and machined castings and forgings which have turned features in non-parallel directions.
- 自动化成本的改进- 通过自动读取CAD模型，包括CATIA，CREO，NX和SOLIDWORKS的CAD模型的属性来简化成本。来自CAD模型的数据被用作消除重复输入和支持分析的输入。
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