Released on = April 3, 2006, 7:23 am

Press Release Author = John Busa

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = Cost Management Platform by aPriori Technologies has
Influential Senior Process Specialist

Press Release Body = R. Sebastian Schrader is a co-founder and Senior Process
Specialist with aPriori Technologies, based in Concord, MA. aPriori
(www.apriori.com) is the technology leader providing innovative cost management
solutions to the discrete manufacturing industry.
As a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois, Schrader was responsible for
some of the seminal work that is the foundation of the aPriori cost management
solution. Schrader holds a BS in Production Engineering from EAFIT University in
Colombia and a MS in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Illinois.
While at UIUC, Sebastian worked at the John Deere Silvis Product Development Center
as a Feature-Based Cost Specialist, analyzing cost data created with third-party
costing packages and in-house costing techniques. Prior to UIUC, Schrader was a
Research & Technical Staff member of the Interdisciplinary Research Center
(IRC-CAD/CAM/CG) in Colombia, where he developed asynchronous tools for topology
recovery, surface smoothing, and mesh optimization. Before working at IRC, Schrader
was a joint owner of CAD-TEC Ltd where he worked as a consultant to firms in graphic
design.

The cost management platform uses innovative, patent protected technologies, and is
capable of using design information driven off of MCAD geometry. Additionally the
ability to model production facilities (including machine capabilities, raw
materials, and facility cost structure) and the specific cost accounting
methodologies, accurate predictive, allow "forward looking" real time cost
estimates.

This cost information leverages existing information and data systems in a single
cost platform, captures company specific costing practices, and makes this
information available across the enterprise and accessible by any user in the
organization.


aPriori's Cost Management Software Platform enables manufacturers to better
understand product cost decisions early and throughout the product lifecycle.
aPriori's Cost Management Platform empowers manufacturers to lower cost-of-goods
sold (COGS), provides real-time visibility to "cost-critical" decision information,
and builds critical cost knowledge to go on the business "offensive." aPriori's
patent-protected cost management platform allows companies to assess, control, and
reduce cost of goods sold by whole percentages. The aPriori Platform enables "Cost
Knowledge Before it Matters."




Web Site = http://www.apriori.com

Contact Details = John Busa
aPriori
www.aPriori.com
978-371-2006
jbusa@apriori.com