Case Study: Carrier achieves millions in annual savings with aPriori

How Carrier Saves Tens of Millions with aPriori

Carrier, a global consumer durables company with 56,000 employees, needed a better way to model the should-cost of complex parts that involve multiple manufacturing processes such as casting, sheet metal bending, wire harnesses, PCB assembly, and additive manufacturing. Traditional spreadsheets and cost-estimation tools were too slow and inaccurate, forcing teams to wait weeks or months for supplier quotes and making it difficult to optimize product costs and design.

Carrier implemented aPriori’s should-cost modeling software, using digital factories to simulate manufacturing and generate accurate cost models directly from 3D designs. With aPriori, Carrier reduced design iteration time from 40 hours to a few minutes, identified $200,000 in annual savings on screw compressor rotors, and has driven more than $20 million in value overall while supporting its broader cost and emissions-reduction goals.

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Tristan Abend

Value Engineering Manager