Parts manufacturers are tasked with designing and producing sustainable, complex, high-quality parts. At the same time, shrinking lot sizes and fierce competition make it more challenging than ever to turn a profit. Successful machine shops use connected digital tools, applications and processes to optimize collaboration and automate workflows.
It's time for machine shops to embrace digital tools that connect entire component production operations, cut data transfers and duplication, improve collaboration and automate processes.
Produce parts more quickly with software features that automate component design and CAM programming, significantly reducing the number of different tools required to make them. (Grob)
Improve production efficiency with automatic data transfers between CAD and CAM, then use integrated simulation and verification to reduce potential programming errors. (ASM Pacific Technology)
Automate inspection programming capabilities to decrease downtimes and directly feed inspection data back into the digital twin model for visualization and analysis. (Mill)
Optimize machine processes with automation by reusing proven project data to program numerical controls. Automated processes deliver consistent results, reduce energy consumption and improve overall quality.
Drive efficient end-to-end manufacturing with a single collaborative environment to design, simulate, manufacture and execute high-quality parts. Increase operational efficiency with expedited machining processes and manufacturing planning.
Create complex geometries that would be difficult or impossible to achieve with traditional machining methods. Additively manufactured parts are often stronger and lighter than their traditionally manufactured counterparts.
Calculate more accurate manufacturing times with advanced planning and scheduling software that displays machine availability. (Proform)
Optimize machine toolpaths to include fewer cutting passes, reducing machining cycles and extending tool life. (W.A. Pfeiffer)
Create customized, highly complex parts that meet part production demand in the moment with additive manufacturing technology. (Schubert Additive Solutions)
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Component manufacturing is the process of creating machine parts. It can include anything from pneumatic hoses to gears and motors. Machines cannot function without components, which is why creating accurate, sustainable, high-quality parts is important.
Digital solutions connecting the design, manufacturing and shipment of these parts accelerate every step of the process, ensuring machine builders have the components they need when they need them to keep their machines running.
Additive manufacturing is the process of 3D printing parts for machines. With additive manufacturing, component manufacturers can create stronger, lighter, more sustainable parts with highly sophisticated geometries.
Additive manufacturing holds the possibility to transform how machine shops design and manufacture machine parts, helping to create more energy-efficient machines.
Additive manufacturing enables component manufacturers to create highly customized parts that traditional manufacturing cannot provide. This rate of customization provides component manufacturers with competitive differentiation amid a fierce landscape.
Additive manufacturing is accelerating time to market and changing how spare parts are delivered and warehoused.
Yes, additive manufacturing is sustainable, as it widens the pool of potential materials that a part can be made from. Certain materials are more eco-friendly than others, while material can also influence a machine's energy consumption and emissions.
Additionally, additive manufacturing processes typically require fewer materials to create a part when compared to traditional machining methods.
Agile part manufacturing digitalizes your part preparation and manufacturing execution operations. Use interconnected multi-machine systems to program CNC machines, automate workflows, manage motion controls and create new parts.
Digital tools can simulate machining operations to optimize the cost and performance of your machine shop.
Integrated manufacturing operations connect your design, quality and part production systems. This connection provides clear data visibility, helping you reuse and scale projects while driving consistency and sustainability into parts.
Improving the flow of data from start to finish results in parts with fewer errors and a more profitable business operation.
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