Industrial Machinery Digital Thread
Component Manufacturing
Modern machine shops equipped with the right digital tools design and deliver highly sophisticated parts and components quickly and efficiently. The right combination of software solutions ensures parts manufacturers meet customer requirements, quality targets and sustainability objectives.
Speed up machine shop processes with digitalization
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.
Boost operations with component manufacturing solutions
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.
Faster CNC programming time
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)
Higher efficiency and quality
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)
Reduce equipment downtime
Automate inspection programming capabilities to decrease downtimes and directly feed inspection data back into the digital twin model for visualization and analysis. (Mill)
Digital tools for the machine shop
With digitalization, you will standardize, centralize and prioritize the systems and functions needed for part manufacturing to thrive in this modern landscape.
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.
- Use multi-machine systems and managed motion controls to generate parts faster
- Gain real-time feedback from process-based design applications
- Simulate entire component production systems to virtually commission and maximize machine productivity
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.
- Automate planning processes to speed up time from order to production
- Maximize shop floor performance and part quality with improved scheduling
- Reduce raw materials inventory by synchronizing purchasing with an achievable schedule
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.
- Diversify market offering by in-housing processes for additive and composites
- Achieve greater customization and competitive differentiation with lighter, more durable parts
- Lower operational costs with reimagined parts and components
Component manufacturers can achieve:
Faster part delivery
Calculate more accurate manufacturing times with advanced planning and scheduling software that displays machine availability. (Proform)
Shorter cycle times
Optimize machine toolpaths to include fewer cutting passes, reducing machining cycles and extending tool life. (W.A. Pfeiffer)
Reduced lead time
Create customized, highly complex parts that meet part production demand in the moment with additive manufacturing technology. (Schubert Additive Solutions)
Either Tech
Either Tech with NX CAD, NX CAM and Mold Wizard, Mec-Plast offers consulting services for the design and production of pneumatic valves and solenoids.
Manufacturer uses Solid Edge and NX CAM to fully leverage 5-axis machining so it can enter the aerospace market
Company:Either Tech
Industry:Aerospace & defense
Location:Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
Siemens Software:NX, Solid Edge
Programming complex parts is no longer a tedious process. The software provides many advanced options that give the engineers the necessary flexibility to quickly create safe 5-axis operations.
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Digitalize the machine shop and deliver the complex, high-quality parts and components machine builders need. Our software solutions help businesses increase operational efficiency, surpass quality targets and get to market faster than the competition.
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Frequently asked questions
What is component manufacturing?
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.
What is additive manufacturing?
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.
What's the value of additive manufacturing?
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.
Is additive manufacturing sustainable?
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.
What is agile manufacturing?
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.
What is integrated manufacturing?
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.
Watch
Video | Master the precision of the perfect part with digital part production
Case Study | Additive manufacturing leader uses NX to improve traceability and save time
Video | A next-generation solution for part manufacturing growth
Listen
Podcast | An introduction to digital part production
Podcast | Highly automated CAM
Podcast | Benefits of additive manufacturing
Read
Infographic | Develop high quality parts with digital part production
White paper | Manufacturing execution for digital part production
Ebook | Advanced planning and scheduling for industrial machinery