Digital Manufacturing / CAM
Digital manufacturing is the use of an integrated, computer-based system comprised of NC programming, simulation, three-dimensional (3D) visualization, analytics and various collaboration tools to create tool paths and product and manufacturing process definitions simultaneously.
Digital manufacturing evolved from manufacturing initiatives such as design for manufacturability (DFM), computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM), flexible manufacturing, lean manufacturing and others that highlight the need for more collaborative product and process design.
Acuity offers Siemens PLM Software solutions, along with selected additional software tools to completely address your company's digital design and manufacturing needs.
Many of the long-term benefits from product lifecycle management (PLM) cannot be achieved without a comprehensive digital manufacturing strategy. Digital manufacturing is a key point of integration between PLM and various shop floor applications and equipment, enabling the exchange of product-related information between design and manufacturing groups. This alignment allows manufacturing companies to achieve their time-to-market and volume goals, as well as realize cost savings by reducing expensive downstream changes.
Digital manufacturing systems allow manufacturing engineers to create the complete definition of a manufacturing process in a virtual environment, including:
- CAM/NC Toolpath Generation & Validation
- Tooling
- Assembly Lines
- Work Centers
- Facility Layout
- Ergonomics
- Resources
Simulation of production processes can be performed, with the intent to re-use existing knowledge and optimize processes before products are manufactured. Digital manufacturing also allows feedback from actual production operations to be incorporated into the product design process, allowing companies to take advantage of shop floor realities during the planning stage.
Examples of Digital Manufacturing Applications
Digital manufacturing is utilized in a variety of industries. An automotive original equipment manufacturer (OEM) can design the entire manufacturing process digitally (tooling, machining, assembly sequencing, and factory layout) at the same time that designers are designing the next vehicle program. Because of this, manufacturing engineers are able to provide immediate feedback to designers, if there are any constraints in the part manufacturability. This type of collaboration between manufacturing engineers and designers creates a holistic view of product and process design.
A high tech supplier can use a digital manufacturing system to create a 3D simulation of a complete production line, and analyze the different production variants and concepts as part of the request for quote (RFQ) process. This kind of transparency and precision in planning and proposal preparation can help this company to gain greater customer confidence, and ultimately help it win the contract.
Benefits of Digital Manufacturing
- Digital manufacturing can help manufacturing companies improve their productivity in both manufacturing planning and production processes.
- Digital manufacturing enables product, process, plant and resource information to be associated, viewed and taken through change processes, with a consistent and comprehensive approach to production design.
- Digital manufacturing allows part manufacturing processes to be optimized within a managed environment. You can produce flexible work instructions capable of displaying 2D/3D part information, along with the machining and tooling instructions.
- The simulation capabilities of digital manufacturing help reduce commissioning costs by validating robotics and automation programs virtually.
- Using digital manufacturing, you can create factory models faster and ensure that they are operating under optimal layout, material flow and throughput before production ramp-up.
- Digital manufacturing can be used to support six-sigma and lean initiatives, by providing a graphical environment to analyze dimensional variation.
- Digital manufacturing systems facilitate the sharing quality data across your organization by generating complete, verifiable CAD-based machine inspection programs for coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) and numerical control (NC) machine tools.
- Digital manufacturing allows you to execute production processes with real-time access to lifecycle data.
NX CAM
As the world leader in computer-aided manufacturing, Siemens PLM software helps companies meet the challenge with leading-edge solutions. More than point solutions for discrete production tasks, the NX suite of manufacturing software links design and manufacturing to improve productivity throughout tooling and fixture design and NC machining processes.
Manufacturing Data Management
MDM is subset of data management aimed specially at the management and control of all data required to manaufacture parts on the shop floor.
VoluMill
VoluMill is a high-performance tool path engine from Celeritive Technologies that integrates directly into NX CAM (and other CAM systems). Compared to other roughing algorithms, VoluMill can reduce the roughing cycle time by 50% or more, and reduce tool wear by up to 4 or 5 times. You can watch videos of VoluMill in action, and read case studies to help you learn more. VoluMill typically has a return-on-investment of 6 months or less and it will make your shop more profitable and efficient.
Tecnomatix
Tecnomatix is a comprehensive portfolio of digital manufacturing solutions that link all manufacturing disciplines together with product engineering – from process layout and design, process simulation and validation, to manufacturing execution. Built upon the open PLM foundation called the Teamcenter manufacturing platform, Tecnomatix provides a versatile set of manufacturing solutions which include:
- Part Planning & Validation
- Assembly Planning & Validation
- Robotics and Automation Planning
- Plant Design & Optimization
- Quality Management
- Prodduction Management
- Manufacturing Process Management
- Electronics Manufacturing
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Informational Events
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Tue, 03/13/2012 - 10:00am PST |
Manufacturing Data Management - How data management helps to make parts better, faster & at lower cost.This recording of one of our web meetings will discuss and demonstrate how fully integrated data management significantly enhances the manufacturing environment. Managing tooling, NC tool paths and other related engineering data, including the communicatioin of data to the machine controllers, can now all be done in a single environment, eliminating errors and greatly enhancing productivity. |
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Wed, 03/21/2012 - 10:00am PST |
PLM World (NX and Team Center Users)Mar 21 - Apr 13, 2012 Apr 14 - Mar 10, 2012 Why You Should Attend:
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Thu, 03/22/2012 - 10:00am PST |
NX CAM VoluMill - Reduce your Cycle Times up to 80%
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Wed, 03/28/2012 - 10:00am PST |
NX CAM Machining & Machine Tool SimulationsA key advantage of NX CAM is integrated simulation and verification that enables programmers to check toolpaths within the NC programming session. This capability avoids the need to copy data to external software for verification, as a single solution contains the common library of parts, tools, fixtures and machine tool models.
The combination of these three simulations and verifications moves jobs through your shop faster with no errors and no scrap! |
