According to Frank Azzolino, President and CEO of aPriori, “aPriori provides abilities to capture cost relevant design information, production facility data, and cost accounting methodology to accurately explore cost saving alternatives in the design, manufacturing, sourcing, and management of product programs.”
Out-of-the-box sample production facilities represent a variety of global production facilities. The Flocking Equipmentcommon manufacturing processes include sheetmetal, fabrication, injection-molding, 3-axis machining, turn, assembly welding, surface treatment, die casting. Azzolino commented, “We also provide many other processes with customizable models to support unique customer-specific processes.”
Advanced “should-cost” analysis incorporates cost estimates for customer’s in-house facilities, generic industry, and global supplier production plants to enable more efficient supplier selection and fact-based negotiations.