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by Chris Chiappinelli, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 1:29:57 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | With release 6 of its product, the costing specialist opens up to more CAD systems and a broader range of manufacturing processes. |
| Keywords: | help manufacturers cut product development costs, cut product development costs |
Against a backdrop of constricted credit markets, in which manufacturers are pressed to find capital to fund supply purchases and maintain operations, aPriori today announced version 6 of its eponymous software package, which aims to help manufacturers cut product development costs.
aPriori’s software helps manufacturers address questions that involve, among other factors, costs related to the materials used to make a product, the labor involved, the suppliers available to source the components, which factory can best produce the product, and what effect design changes will have on the product cost.
First previewed last spring, aPriori version 6 features two major upgrades, one aimed at expanding the universe of companies that can use the product and the other geared toward increasing the aPriori user base within those organizations.
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