aPriori 2021 R1 provides these usability enhancements:

aPriori 2021 R1 provides users the ability to select the Digital Factory used for Tool Shop data independently of the Digital Factory used to manufacture the part. Tool Shop data is used to calculate tooling costs in process groups with hard tooling such as Casting – Die, Plastic Molding, and Sheet Metal – Transfer Die. Prior to this release, it was challenging, time-consuming, and/or involved additional manual calculations to estimate the cost of a part for which the tool was manufactured in a different factory/geographic region than the primary part production. Previously the user could either:

As shown below, in aPriori 2021 R1the Digital Factory Selection dialog now allows the user to specify either that theTool Shop and part production both occur in the same Digital Factory (default behavior), or to choose an alternative Digital Factory for the Tool Shop. The resulting cost estimate then automatically reflects the cost of producing tooling in one factory/region while producing the part in a separate factory/region.

 

The Part Summary tab has been updated to display the Digital Factory that is used for estimating the primary processing, secondary treatments, and tool production, as shown.

aPriori 2021 R1 provides greater insights into calculated values that have been overridden by a user. Previously, if a calculated value such as cycle time was changed in the Part Details tab, only the newly entered value appeared in the Cost Overrides Summary dialog; the original calculated value was not displayed. The new value appeared in the Override Value column while the Default Value entry remained blank. The only way to determine the original calculated value was to clear the override and re-cost the scenario. Now when a calculated value is overridden, the original value will appear in the Default Value column while the new value will appear in the Override Value column. Having visibility into both the original calculated value alongside the new overridden value provides more feedback to both end users – who have more context for why a particular field was changed – as well as to cost model workbench users who can use such feedback to adjust cost model assumptions

This enhancement applies to calculated values only. For example, if a user manually overrides the selected machine, the originally selected machine is not displayed.

aPriori 2021 R1 supports additional scenario search criteria. The scenario Search dialog now provides a “Created by” field which enables searching for scenarios created by a specific user. Previously the dialog enabled searching for scenarios “Last Modified By” a designated user, but not originally created by that user. Multiple customers requested this new search criteria to provide visibility into who created specific scenarios, for purposes such as tracking compliance with security regulations such as ITAR.

The aPriori License Manager Service manages the activation keys for all the aPriori applications and modules in your aPriori On-Premise deployment.

When you install a new version of aPriori Professional, you must specify the URL for License Management Service. You can specify the URL in the aPriori License Manager Service Configuration settings of the aPriori Professional Setup Wizard.

The Wizard can obtain and preset the URL from:

Otherwise, you can specify the URL directly in the configuration settings.