Case Study: Arrival achieves rapid, localized cost and manufacturability insights for Microfactories with aPriori

How to Use Digital Factories to Scale Microfactories

Arrival, an electric vehicle manufacturer built around small, distributed "Microfactories," needed a way to control costs while enabling rapid, localized product customization. Their cost engineering team required a manufacturing cost‑modeling tool that could scale quickly with new facilities, reflect regional supplier capabilities and cost drivers, and provide automated, fast feedback so engineers could focus on design rather than long quoting cycles.

aPriori’s Cost Insight Design and Cost Insight Generate were deployed to run automated manufacturing simulations as soon as CAD designs are checked into PLM, notify designers of anomalies, and let teams evaluate material, process, and sourcing variants. This gave Arrival near‑instant cost and manufacturability intelligence, reduced supplier churn and design rework, accelerated sourcing decisions (best country, machine, and target price), and cut the time to generate reliable manufacturing cost models from weeks to minutes.

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