Released on = March 28, 2006, 6:41 am

Press Release Author = John Busa

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = 30+ Years Experience brought by Dr. Philpott to aPriori
Technologies

Press Release Body = Michael Philpott, Ph.D. is co-founder and Chief Technology
Officer (CTO) 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.


With over thirty years of design and manufacturing experience in industry and
academia, and over fifty related publications, Dr. Philpott is one of the world\'s
foremost authorities in the areas of Design-to-Cost, Design-for-Manufacture, and
Design-for-Assembly. He directed the research on process cost modeling and the
development of the aPriori software at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(UIUC) since 1993. Prior to aPriori, Dr. Philpott was an Associate Professor of
Mechanical Engineering at UIUC and the Director of the Concurrent Design and
Manufacture for the UIUC. Before UIUC, Dr. Philpott started the
design-for-manufacturing program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and also
taught at Cranfield Institute of Technology. Earlier in his career, Dr. Philpott
spent twelve years as a design and manufacturing engineer in the British automotive
and machine tool industry working at Land Rover, Jaguar, Moulins, and British
Leyland. Dr. Philpott has a Ph.D. and MS in Manufacturing from Cranfield Institute
of Technology (U.K.).

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 truly enables
"Cost Knowledge Before it Matters."


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

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