News
Corporate
March 2014
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Sunset Metal Works, a contract
manufacturer of metal weldments and
fabrications for original equipment
manufacturers, has chosen aPriori’s
software to automate its product cost
estimating process and reduce the
time it takes to respond to quotation
requests from customers in the
agriculture/construction
equipment,
aerial
work
platforms,
vertical
transportation, oil/gas equipment and
defence industries.
Sunset
has
already
seen
improvements of 300 per cent in
its quote times with 3D models.
Once aPriori is fully implemented,
its goal is to turn around weldment
packages within five days for OEM
customers.
Sunset Metal Works has relied
heavily on ‘tribal knowledge’ and
experience in its cost estimating
efforts. The process was thorough
but lengthy, making it difficult
to respond quickly to RFQs on
new projects. At the same time,
its existing customers were also
looking for greater transparency
in the cost estimating process. This put
additional pressure to document what
were highly manual processes managed
by a select number of product cost
experts in the company.
Sunset now has a flexible and powerful
costing engine that can instantly and
precisely determine the cost of a part
or product from a 3D CAD model based
on the materials to be used and the
manufacturing environment where it will
be produced.
With a click of a button, users can get a
precise, real-time cost assessment at any
time during the process. As changes are
made, aPriori automatically re-assesses
and provides an updated product cost
in real time. In addition, the software
enables users to leverage product cost
data hosted in Sunset Metal’s other
enterprise applications including
the import of complex engineering
bills of materials (BOMs) from its ERP
and PLM applications.
Sunset also anticipates synergies
with OEMs that use aPriori and
hopes to connect during design and
production costing projects to share
their product cost management
assumptions and metrics via the
aPriori platform. This will enable
true, known cost vs best practices
estimates and eliminate unnecessary
back and forth with the customer.
Sunset Metal Works Inc – USA
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Sunset speeding up the estimating process
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Sunset has seen an improvement of 300 per cent in its quote times
