In this short 2 minute video, Manager of Cost Estimation David McGinley describes how a young engineer had added a number of aesthetic features to a design without really considering the impact this would have on manufacturing cost. Watch how Spirit’s engineering team used aPriori to highlight and eliminate all the expensive features from a CAD model and save 11% in just a few minutes.
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