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Sunset speeding up the estimating process

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 Website : www.sunsetmetalworks.com

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

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. 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 Sunset has already

▲ ▲ Sunset has seen an improvement of 300 per cent in its quote times

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