Driving Profit Opportunities With APrioriâ������s Cost Mgmt Platform aPriori’s patent-protected technology combines product design information, production facility capabilities, and cost structure, and customer-specific cost accounting methodology to produce accurate real-time, predictive cost information. According to Frank Azzolino, President and CEO of aPriori, “Tangible competitive advantages are derived from thoroughly understanding your company’s...... Similar Editorial : by 10x Marketing. | Source : Information Technology Development
APriori Cost Management Platform Finds 34% COGS Reduction While credited with bringing much-needed productivity improvements to the discrete manufacturing industry, existing MCAD, PLM and ERP products are primarily focused on the promise of soft savings such as time to market, productivity and process improvements, and other operational efficiencies. Unfortunately, the direct benefits from these technologies have been difficult to measure and quantify...... Similar Editorial : by Thomas R. Cutler. | Source : Information Technology Development
Datacraft Signum Digital Kanban Wins Pacific Scientific Praise The Datacraft Solutions’ digital kanban product, Signum, received raves from Jim Malch, Director of Operations, Pacific Scientific, EKD: "Pacific Scientific Electro-Kinetics is excited over the short-term results achieved with Signum in just 4 months. PS/EKD has forecasted a minimum of 20% increase in inventory turns by year-end, and we've seen a reduction in the transactional processes that...... Similar Editorial : by Thomas R. Cutler. | Source : Enterprise Resources
APriori One Year ROI - Greater Than 20:1 According to Frank Azzolino, President and CEO of aPriori, “Recent production use has demonstrated an 8 to 39% cost of goods (COGS) reduction for both new and mature products and a first year return-on-investment which is greater than 20:1.” In today's business climate, companies can no longer settle for the promise of soft savings and must demand quantifiable, verifiable and predictable ROI....... Similar Editorial : by Thomas R. Cutler. | Source : Information Technology Development
Datacraft Solutions�� Expands Board Of Directors Datacraft Solutions’ President and CEO Matthew Marotta announced that Stephen Parker will join the firm’s Board of Directors as Vice-Chairman. Datacraft Solutions, Inc. based in Durham, NC, (www.datacraftsolutions.com) is the leading digital kanban solution worldwide. Marotta noted, “We are thrilled to have Stephen Parker serve on our board and are confident his addition will...... Similar Editorial : by Thomas R. Cutler. | Source : Enterprise Resources
Strategic Procurement Program - Thomas R Cutler In the current issue of IndustrialLeaders.com Thomas R. Cutler Interviewed to TechSolve’s Fred Fishman. According to Fred Fishman, Manager of Strategic Procurement Programs for Cincinnati-based TechSolve, Inc., “In the good old days, it seemed as though profit margins were high and demand was upward and predictable. While business inefficiency was always a topic of some concern, it was...... Similar Editorial : by Robert F. Abbott. | Source : Information Technology Development
Datacraft Solutions In Fabricating Metalworking According to North America’s leading manufacturing journalist, Thomas R. Cutler (www.trcutlerinc.com), “Recent estimates suggest that more than a third of all metalworking and fabricating manufacturers engage in some type of lean-manufacturing initiative. There are many variables that drive the goal of waste elimination, none as keen as the need to be competitive in a global economy. As...... Similar Editorial : by Thomas R. Cutler. | Source : Enterprise Resources
APriori Impacts Discrete Manufacturersâ������ Bottom-line According to Frank Azzolino, President and CEO of aPriori, “aPriori provides abilities to capture cost relevant design information, production facility data, and cost accounting methodology to accurately explore cost saving alternatives in the design, manufacturing, sourcing, and management of product programs.”Out-of-the-box sample production facilities represent a variety of global production...... Similar Editorial : by Thomas R. Cutler. | Source : Information Technology Development
Mobility Drives Corporate Competitiveness Stephen Carson, Executive VP of Sales with Visibility Corporation noted, “Truly anywhere anytime mobility is a big advantage for manufacturers that conduct some of their business remotely. Customer Self Service, field service, remote access to reporting information and mobile analysis are just some of the functions possible with VISIBILITY.net due to that fact that it’s 100% web based and...... Similar Editorial : by Thomas R. Cutler. | Source : Information Technology Development
CorVu Training Will Be Presented By Encompix ERP Encompix, (www.encompix.com), the leading ETO (Engineer-to-Order) ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) leader is now offering CorVu Training. These are task oriented sessions and designed to train a user on a specific business functions. • Introduction to CorVu Basics: Tuesday, March 14 - Thursday, March 16, 2006This class teaches the participant how to build queries, graphs, quick...... Similar Editorial : by Thomas Cutler. | Source : Enterprise Resources
APriori - First Predictive Cost Analysis For Machined Products According to Frank Azzolino, President and CEO of aPriori, “We off an industry first cost analysis for machined products…real-time, predictive cost estimates for turned and 3-axis machined products throughout the entire product delivery process.”The new technology broadens visibility to the cost impact of trade-offs between performance, quality, price, and delivery for a wide array of industries...... Similar Editorial : by Thomas R. Cutler. | Source : Information Technology Development
ETO Institute Recognized Engineer-to-Order Manufacturer Pressures Engineer-to-order manufacturers face intense pressures to reduce costs and shorten cycle times, while maintaining high quality. The ETO Institute points out that, to stay competitive, domestic engineer-to-order and project-based manufacturers must turn to technology to stay competitive. However, their special business challenges cannot be resolved by traditional, repetitive-manufacturing solutions...... Similar Editorial : by wolney. | Source : Information Technology Development
Canada��s Management Magazine Argues Processes Must Be First Thomas R. Cutler, who founded the Manufacturing Media Consortium in 1999, has grown the participation from 300 journalists to more than two thousands key clients, journalists, editors, trendsetters, and key business leaders worldwide. Cutler has authored more than 1000 articles for a wide range of manufacturing periodicals, industrial publications, and business journals including most of the...... Similar Editorial : by Rob Parker. | Source : Information Technology Development
Marotta��s Datacraft Solutions Expands Staff Again Kelly Pryor joins Durham, North Carolina based Datacraft Solutions (www.datacraftsolutions.com). Pryor noted, “Joining one of the fastest growing technology organizations in North America is a tremendous opportunity. In the short time since joining the company, staff and revenues have more than doubled. It is my goal to contribute to the winning Datacraft Solutions formula....... Similar Editorial : by Thomas R. Cutler. | Source : Enterprise Resources
APriori Improves Margins By Predictively Estimating Costs According to Frank Azzolino, President and CEO of aPriori, “Our software is designed to implement design-to-cost strategies during the product stage rather than as a constraint to satisfy at the end of a design. aPriori allows users to avoid or reduce the inevitable lengthy post-product launch cost reduction exercises and costly changes late in the development process.”Discrete part...... Similar Editorial : by Phillip Gilliam. | Source : Information Technology Development
