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title: "Product Cost Management: What does your Software do for you? • Generis"
description: "Computer-aided design (CAD) is an industrial art that results in lower product development costs and greatly shortened design cycles.  In today’s post we take a closer look aPriori‘s software capabilities to gain a fuller understanding of how 3D CAD Modeling can help developers: Launch new products at or below target cost Avoid overpaying for outsourced parts Maximize cost savings of re-design work Increase the accuracy and speed of RFQ responses aPriori software and services generate hard-dollar product cost savings for discrete manufacturing organizations. Using aPriori’s real-time product cost assessments, employees in sourcing, manufacturing and design engineering make more-informed decisions that drive costs out of products pre- and post-production. Check out the video below to learn How aPriori’s product cost management software can rapidly generate detailed cost estimates using any 3D solid CAD model as the primary input. Costs can be generated for a wide array of manufacturing processes, such as: Sheetmetal Fabrication, Plastic Injection Molding, Casting, Machining, Forging, Powdered Metal, Gear Making, etc. Find out more from aPriori by joining the discussion at the American Aerospace & Defense Summit on December 6-7, 2016, in Scottsdale, AZ!"
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# Product Cost Management: What does your Software do for you?

- September 19, 2016

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Computer-aided design (CAD) is an industrial art that results in lower product development costs and greatly shortened design cycles.  In today’s post we take a closer look [aPriori](https://www.apriori.com/)‘s software capabilities to gain a fuller understanding of how 3D CAD Modeling can help developers:

- Launch new products at or below target cost
- Avoid overpaying for outsourced parts
- Maximize cost savings of re-design work
- Increase the accuracy and speed of RFQ responses

aPriori software and services generate hard-dollar product cost savings for discrete manufacturing organizations. Using aPriori’s real-time product cost assessments, employees in sourcing, manufacturing and design engineering make more-informed decisions that drive costs out of products pre- and post-production.

Check out the [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-trab6ZVVo) below to learn How aPriori’s product cost management software can rapidly generate detailed cost estimates using any 3D solid CAD model as the primary input. Costs can be generated for a wide array of manufacturing processes, such as: Sheetmetal Fabrication, Plastic Injection Molding, Casting, Machining, Forging, Powdered Metal, Gear Making, etc.

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Find out more from aPriori by joining the discussion at the [American Aerospace & Defense Summit](http://aadsummit.com/) on December 6-7, 2016, in Scottsdale, AZ!

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