Case Study: ThyssenKrupp Elevator achieves product cost reduction and faster time-to-market with aPriori

ThyssenKrupp Elevator Americas Reduces Product Costs with aPriori

ThyssenKrupp Elevator Americas, a leading elevator manufacturer with significant U.S. production in Tennessee, needed better product-cost visibility early in the development cycle. Cost management was manual, inconsistent and slow, so design engineers lacked timely, accurate pricing—leading to late, costly decisions and limited ability to evaluate alternatives.

To fix this they deployed aPriori’s product-costing software across a cross‑functional team so engineers could get real-time, CAD-based cost estimates during design. The tool scaled into manufacturing and procurement, enabling fact‑based supplier negotiations, optimized routings and faster decisions. Results included evaluating 3× more design alternatives, reducing estimate turnaround from about a week to an hour, lower sourced part costs, quicker time to market and a stronger culture of designing for cost.

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Patrick Bass

Sr. Vice President of Enginering