Bulk costing data fields

There are four groups of input data fields associated with the components in a bulk cost group:

• Production Info

• Quoted Cost Info

• Administrative Info

• Process Routing.

Production Info fields are required to initially cost the part or assembly and include:

• Process Group

• Annual Volume

• Production Life

• Plant Name (Digital Factory)

• Material Composition

If the values for these fields are not specified in the Bulk Cost Group, aPriori uses the Digital Factory default values.

Quoted Cost Info fields allows a user to enter a current cost or quote information, which is used subsequently in cost per mass analyses and for comparison to the aPriori cost estimate. These are optional fields and include the following

• Quote Total part Cost

• Quote Tooling Cost

• Quote Material Composition

• Quote Process Group

• Quote Annual volume

• Quote Routing

• Quote Date

• Quote Factory

Administrative Info groups optional fields containing descriptive information about the parts, which may be useful for subsequent searching and analysis. These fields include:

• Part Description

• Product Line

• Model Number

• Project

Process Routing fields display the routing specified and/or chosen by aPriori for the component.

• By default, the Process Routing field is blank initially, and aPriori automatically determines the routing and machine which will result in the lowest cost.

• You also can specify the routing and machine to be used when bulk costing components.

• To do this, select one or more parts in the table and Edit > Edit Process Routing. (also available with right click).

See Selecting a process routing for detailed instructions.

Note: If a bulk costing part includes required UDAs (User Defined Attributes), verification that the required UDA(s) exist is done during initialization of components. This means that if a required UDA is not specified, you get an error message only once all components in the bulk cost group are initialized/costed.