aP Generate is a revolutionary digital manufacturing simulation technology from aPriori designed to optimize new product designs for manufacturability and cost, significantly reducing time to market without increasing engineering workload. It operates silently in the background, automatically analyzing digital twin CAD models every time they are checked into a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system. Engineers are only alerted when a potential manufacturability problem is detected, streamlining the design process. This automation solution is ideal for the entire product development team, from design engineering to sourcing and cost engineering professionals, enabling them to proactively address issues and achieve profitability goals. By providing detailed cost and manufacturability insights directly within the PLM system, aP Generate helps reduce rework, shorten time to market, and improve overall product profitability. It supports every major CAD solution and allows for quick comparison of design alternatives based on simulated manufacturing cost models, leveraging real-world factory data. Users can define custom workflows, schedule execution, and configure outputs, ensuring seamless integration into existing processes. The system fosters early cross-team collaboration by immediately bringing design and costing teams onto the same page, saving time and money. It also assists sourcing professionals in finding best-fit suppliers by producing credible manufacturing cost analysis. Seconds after a design upload, the system notifies the design team of potential optimization areas, highlighting elements that drive excess cost or create manufacturing problems through powerful heat mapping algorithms. Actionable alerts provide risk ratings, cost results, and suggested responses, enabling timely product launches and informed feature-vs-cost tradeoffs.

Features & Benefits

• Use Automation to Focus on Innovation
  • Provides stakeholders with detailed cost and manufacturability insight built into the PLM system, reducing rework, shortening time to market, and improving product profitability without manual assessment.
• Simulated Manufacturing Cost Models
  • Offers simulation based on CAD files for quick comparison of design alternatives and their cost implications, optimizing designs based on real-world factory data and informing product roadmap planning.
• Define Custom Workflows and Cost Input
  • Allows scheduling workflow execution, creating queries to extract parts from PLM, defining cost inputs and overrides, and configuring outputs, with options for automatic analysis or custom triggers.
• Automated Cost Models Enable Collaboration
  • Facilitates immediate alignment between design and costing teams, saving time and money through early cross-team collaboration, and helps sourcing find best-fit suppliers with credible manufacturing cost analysis.
• Proactively Prioritize Cost and Manufacturing Issues
  • Sends automated notifications to design teams about parts with optimization potential seconds after upload, enabling easy sharing of design guidance and reports among stakeholders to ensure timely product launches.
• Heat Mapping Shows Potential Design Issues
  • Utilizes powerful manufacturability algorithms to scan CAD models for potential design issues, highlighting elements likely to drive excess cost or create manufacturing problems, providing warnings and guidance.
• Actionable Alerts and Notification
  • Simplifies workflows by providing email alerts with manufacturability risk ratings, cost results, and links for further investigation, enabling early assessment of forecasted profit margins and feature-vs-cost tradeoffs.