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The Nuts and Bolts of a Manufacturing Cost Reduction Strategy
Traditionally, manufacturing cost reduction strategies have been performed by cost engineering experts, or by Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VAVE) team members who specialize in cost reduction...
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Six Key Trends and Takeaways that Affect Profitability and Time to Market
We recently conducted a survey of Industry Week’s and Machine Design’s discrete manufacturing audience. The primary goal of the survey was to better understand product lifecycle trends and their...
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Design-to-Cost Strategy Succeeds at Jabil
On September 25, 2018, aPriori sponsored a regional meeting in California for manufacturers of high tech electronic equipment who expressed interest in learning how to easily identify and...
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Case Study: Implementing a Culture of Cost Awareness
How a High Tech Electronics Company Saved Millions by Attacking their Mechanical Spend The aPriori Customer profiled in this Case Study is in the High Tech Electronics (HTE) industry vertical, and...
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Product Cost Plays a Significant Role in Driving Cultural Change at GE
General Electric is one of the largest diversified industrial manufacturers in the world. The company designs and manufactures aircraft engines, locomotives and other transportation equipment,...
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How Caterpillar uses aPriori in its New Product Introduction Programs
Caterpillar has been a customer with aPriori for many years. They have aPriori product cost management deployments going on at the different divisions around the company and around the world....
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Thought Leaders of Product Cost Management
Introduction A lot of stories have appeared in the news lately about the role of automation in manufacturing. In particular, companies that manufacture robotic systems that improve the efficiency...
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Gaining a Competitive Advantage Through Cost Management Software
aPriori customer Soucy International designs and manufactures aftermarket parts for the power sports vehicle market. Back in 2015, they were facing a challenge that was making it increasingly...
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Gaining a Competitive Advantage Through Cost Management Software
aPriori customer Soucy International designs and manufactures aftermarket parts for the power sports vehicle market. Back in 2015, they were...
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Circor Successfully Implements a Cost Savings Strategy
Even best-in-class manufacturing companies can miss their cost targets when launching new products. Design changes can often lead to costly...
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Innovative Design-to-Cost Program Unlocks Massive Savings for Wuzheng [Video]
The Wuzheng Group (Shandong Wuzheng Group Co. Ltd) is an established automotive and agricultural industry leader in China with annual...
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Cost Estimators: Feel Like Your Ship is Sinking?
Adopt a Carrier Group Battle Strategy for Product Cost Management I was recently watching a classic WWII movie about the...
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[Video] Learn How to Improve Your Design-to-Cost Strategy
Featuring Spirit Aerosystems Spirit AeroSystems [NYSE: SPR] designs and builds large aerostructures, including fuselages, pylons, nacelles and wing components, for...
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COST INSIGHT 2017 Preview – You Can Feel the Momentum Building
There’s one word that keeps bubbling to the surface of my mind as I prepare for next week’s COST INSIGHT...
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Top 10 Reasons You Should Attend Our European STARS PCM Conference
There are probably about 20 or 30 good reasons why you should attend the 3rd Annual European STARS Product Cost...
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Highlights of the 4th Annual STARS Customer Conference
If You Missed It… The aPriori STARS Customer Conference is becoming THE most important event of the year for leading...
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The Principle of Granularity and Product Cost Management
After 25 years in the business of marketing manufacturing software, I still remember one of my early job interviews where...
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Honeywell Aerospace Boosts Savings with Early Visibility to Product Cost
Cross Functional Team Collaboration Drives Product Cost Savings Early visibility to product cost drivers helps companies eliminate problems before they...
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The Network Effect and its Impact on Product Cost & Cycle Time – Part 3
As we’ve described in our first two installments of this series, in economics and business, the Network Effect is the...
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The Network Effect and its Impact on Product Cost & Cycle Time – Part 2
First, Find Synergies Between Departments As we discussed in Part 1 of this series , in economics and business, the...
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