Plastics

Digitalization for Plastics

The versatility of plastic continues to increase applications for which it is used. With each new application, additional layers of complexity are added when faced with designing sustainable products and streamlining manufacturing processes. To address these challenges smart plastic part design and injection molding solutions are needed to help manufacturers gain a competitive advantage by improving product quality and eliminate unnecessary rework.

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Plastics

Digitalization for Plastics

The versatility of plastic continues to increase applications for which it is used. With each new application, additional layers of complexity are added when faced with designing sustainable products and streamlining manufacturing processes. To address these challenges smart plastic part design and injection molding solutions are needed to help manufacturers gain a competitive advantage by improving product quality and eliminate unnecessary rework.

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Tool Cost Management

Product Cost Management for the Mold, Tool and Die Industry provides tooling manufacturers with access to an extensive collection of master data. The selection of profiles and locations from this master database enables you to leverage preconfigured information like specifications, manufacturing techniques and hourly rates. The result is a tool costing calculation with a high level of detail which allows you to be flexible in creating cost breakdowns.

Engineer to Order Process Automation for Industrial Machinery

Engineer to Order Process Automation solution for the Industrial Machinery industry provides a powerful rule authoring environment and repository that allows domain experts to capture the rules and best practices used to engineer and bid engineer to order (ETO) products which helps reduce the manufacturing cost of configured products.

Product Design for Beauty, Personal & Home Care

Product design in the Beauty, Personal and Home Care industry now requires a blend of aesthetics and complex functionality to delight consumers and capture their buying dollars. Our solution allows mechanical design to be integrated with electrical and software design, enabling a seamless finished product design – a complete digital twin of these complex products. Take advantage of our solution to design more innovative products faster and more efficiently.

Package Design for Consumer Goods

Today’s designers of consumer goods packaging face new challenges such as ensuring transparency into environmental compliance, keeping up with faster product cycles, and countering new levels of mechanical stress caused by online commerce and direct shipments to consumers. We offer a fully integrated suite of tools that enables rapid package development, from initial concept to detail package, including full associativity between product and production equipment as well as advanced design and simulation capabilities.

Packaging Design & Management

Deliver innovative product development processes faster and more efficiently at your medical device organization. From the initial concept through to the finished product, our end-to-end, digital packaging design and management solutions for medical device and pharmaceutical companies provide individualized tools for detailed designs with lower associated costs.

Artwork Development for Sporting Goods & Toys

Artwork must communicate critical information to the consumer in a way that is consistent with the brand and correctly displays the claims and benefits needed to inspire a purchase. Our integrated artwork solution will increase quality and reduce the risk of recall, improve agility and enable designers to focus on the creative design aspects of artwork that enhance consumer conversion and loyalty.

Artwork Development for Apparel, Footwear & Accessories

Footwear and apparel companies are competing in the Fast Fashion world and required to launch products in days. Agility in artwork is a necessity. Re-use of assets enables agility. Artwork built on a product lifecycle management foundation provides the confidence of data accuracy, asset re-use and the ability to quickly create configurations and even personalized labels or monograms on the fly. Artwork in the footwear, apparel and accessories market is as important to the product design as it is to the package and label. Agility in artwork is critical in the last mile of delivering personalized product designs in days.

Package Design for Food & Beverage

Packaging is a brand’s best marketing vehicle, but it also has to perform under daily use. Designers must deal with environmental compliance, faster product cycles due to social media, and new levels of mechanical stress with online commerce on the rise. Our suite of package design and visualization capabilities enables designers to create consumer-preferred packages with structural integrity and the assurance of efficient and effective manufacture worldwide.

Artwork Development for Beauty, Personal & Home Care

Artwork is the main communication of brand equity and the critical information needed to inspire a purchase. It must be right, compliant and communicate the claims and benefits of the product. Artwork build on the foundation of a PLM will increase agility and quality, reduce the risk of recall, and improve the designer’s ability to focus on creative aspects that drive purchase and loyalty.

Flow & Thermal Design

Engineer the thermal performance of rotating machines from the earliest stages of development. Siemens Digital Industries Software has thermal and energy solutions that can help you at every step of the development process, from 1D systems modeling to 3D coupled thermal-fluid simulation of cooling systems to simulation of how temperature will affect machine components.

Next Generation Design for Mold, Tool, & Die

Our Next Generation Mold, Tool & Die Design solution leverages synchronous technology to efficiently work and modify Multi-CAD data and early validation of mold designs to create a competitive advantage by reducing part turnaround time and increasing quality in the final design.

Tool Cost Management

Tool cost management solution for the mold, tool, and die industry provides tooling manufacturers with the ability to create highly accurate quotations and cut the time periods for proposal preparation significantly. The solution enables a parametric calculation of various tool technologies. You can take advantage of the integrated knowledge database which includes reference data, as well as an integrated process time calculator, ensuring an enterprise-wide consistent calculation standard.

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Lifecycle management for industrial machinery

A lifecycle approach to process and data management is critical to meet these challenges regardless of how your business contributes value to the industry.  Our solution improves how manufacturers manage change, execute work processes, drive quality, and connect to external suppliers and customers. Our lifecycle management approach to centralizing technical information, keeping it up to date, and accessible means knowledge workers can be more efficient and achieve higher levels of performance.

IoT and Lifecycle Analytics (Shop Floor)

Our IoT and Lifecycle Analytics Solution for the Industrial Machinery industry can combine diverse data sources and fragment information to help your customer influence design, product innovation and improved performance. From design and development of the machines, through manufacturing, delivery and end customer use, advanced analytics are required every step of the way.

Project management for industrial machinery

Project Lifecycle Management for the Industrial Machinery and Heavy Equipment industries provides a platform for Program Management, Project Management, and Product Lifecycle Management to be combined with features for managing the Project and Product Portfolio in an integrated manner.

Tool Cost Management

Product Cost Management for the Mold, Tool and Die Industry provides tooling manufacturers with access to an extensive collection of master data. The selection of profiles and locations from this master database enables you to leverage preconfigured information like specifications, manufacturing techniques and hourly rates. The result is a tool costing calculation with a high level of detail which allows you to be flexible in creating cost breakdowns.

Modular Machine Engineering Process Management

Modular Machine Engineering Process Management solution for the Industrial Machinery industry supports Engineer to Order, Configure to Order, and Assembly to Order processes to help establishes common processes configuring and managing a family of products while defining functional modules (subsystems) that can be easily modified to meet a customer’s specific requirements and related changes.

Engineer to Order Process Automation for Industrial Machinery

Engineer to Order Process Automation solution for the Industrial Machinery industry provides a powerful rule authoring environment and repository that allows domain experts to capture the rules and best practices used to engineer and bid engineer to order (ETO) products which helps reduce the manufacturing cost of configured products.

Verification Management for Heavy Equipment

Our Verification Management Solution for the Heavy Equipment Industry combines unique capabilities for integrated simulation and test management with plant simulation for manufacturing and manufacturing planning and execution, all while insuring complete closed loop requirements traceability.

Product Design for Beauty, Personal & Home Care

Product design in the Beauty, Personal and Home Care industry now requires a blend of aesthetics and complex functionality to delight consumers and capture their buying dollars. Our solution allows mechanical design to be integrated with electrical and software design, enabling a seamless finished product design – a complete digital twin of these complex products. Take advantage of our solution to design more innovative products faster and more efficiently.

Robotics Design & Commissioning

Robotic Design and Commissioning for the Industrial Machinery Industry helps you develop complete robot programs that contain robot specific logic to help you perform “What-if” scenarios to check system behavior and provide complete validation of cell behavior virtually.

Software Engineering for Industrial Machinery

Software Engineering solution for the Industrial Machinery Industry allows you to transform otherwise disconnected tools and processes into an integrated design solution that enables you to builds the complete digital twin by combining software functionality with mechanical and electrical capabilities and builds the complete digital twin and align the product through development and change impact analysis.

Package Design for Consumer Goods

Today’s designers of consumer goods packaging face new challenges such as ensuring transparency into environmental compliance, keeping up with faster product cycles, and countering new levels of mechanical stress caused by online commerce and direct shipments to consumers. We offer a fully integrated suite of tools that enables rapid package development, from initial concept to detail package, including full associativity between product and production equipment as well as advanced design and simulation capabilities.

Packaging Design & Management

Deliver innovative product development processes faster and more efficiently at your medical device organization. From the initial concept through to the finished product, our end-to-end, digital packaging design and management solutions for medical device and pharmaceutical companies provide individualized tools for detailed designs with lower associated costs.

HVAC Performance Engineering

Gain better insight into HVAC systems for performance and efficiency, noise and vibration, and cooling than you can achieve with physical testing alone.

Rotating Machinery Performance Engineering

Gain better insight into rotating equipment like pumps, compressors, motors and more for performance and efficiency, noise and vibration, and cooling than you can achieve with physical testing alone.

Artwork Development for Sporting Goods & Toys

Artwork must communicate critical information to the consumer in a way that is consistent with the brand and correctly displays the claims and benefits needed to inspire a purchase. Our integrated artwork solution will increase quality and reduce the risk of recall, improve agility and enable designers to focus on the creative design aspects of artwork that enhance consumer conversion and loyalty.

Artwork Development for Apparel, Footwear & Accessories

Footwear and apparel companies are competing in the Fast Fashion world and required to launch products in days. Agility in artwork is a necessity. Re-use of assets enables agility. Artwork built on a product lifecycle management foundation provides the confidence of data accuracy, asset re-use and the ability to quickly create configurations and even personalized labels or monograms on the fly. Artwork in the footwear, apparel and accessories market is as important to the product design as it is to the package and label. Agility in artwork is critical in the last mile of delivering personalized product designs in days.

Additive design & manufacturing for industrial machinery

Additive manufacturing and design for the Heavy Equipment industry deliver integrated software applications for additive manufacturing that allow you to reimagine products, retool manufacturing and rethink business models.

3D Printing & CNC Machining (CAM) for Medical Equipment

Re-imagine your entire med-tech business in order to achieve optimal performance at reduced costs. Our Additive Manufacturing solutions for the medical device industry eliminate the need to translate and remodel parts between applications in order to create breakthrough products and transform your business.

3D Printing & CNC Machining (CAM) for Cardiovascular & Neurological Device Manufacturers

Re-imagine your entire cardiovascular or neurological medical device business and achieve optimal product performance while also reducing costs with our 3D Printing and CNC Machining (CAM) solution capabilities.

Supply Chain Collaboration for Industrial Machinery

Supply Chain Collaboration for the Mold Tool & Die Industry provides an easy-to-use, secure platform for suppliers, even those outside of an OEM’s PLM environment to initiate data sharing from defined supplier workflows and change process.

Manufacturing Data Management for Industrial Machinery

Our Manufacturing Data Management solution for the Industrial Machinery Industry allows you to manage all of the information defining your products, processes, production resources and plant facilities in a single source of manufacturing knowledge.

Body Manufacturing Stamping

Automotive stamping dies and press lines are high-cost, long lead-time investments. To maximize return on investment (ROI), it’s important to streamline development and commissioning of new lines, while flexibly adapting existing lines to new designs. Our automotive stamping solutions are used by leading companies to optimize operational efficiency and reduce time, cost and errors in design, planning and production of sheet metal parts and dies. Performance improvement include: reduction of try-out time by 70 percent, reduction of tooling design costs by 20 percent, reduction of stamping die design errors by 90 percent, and increase of stroke rate by 10 percent.

Tooling & fixtures for industrial machinery

Our tooling and fixture part manufacturing solution for the industrial machinery industry offers a comprehensive set of fully integrated tools for part manufacturing from CAD/CAM, robotics, CNC machining, and CMM inspection through 3D printing.

Electronics Manufacturing

Our electronic manufacturing solutions are helping deliver process plans throughout your medical device enterprise that reflect the correct product configurations while helping reconcile manufacturing constraints for enhanced design, development, and end use products.

Factory Layout, Line Design & Optimization for Beauty, Personal Care, & Home Care

The Consumer Package Goods industry is experiencing reduced margins along with the need to rapidly introduce new products. Designing the factory layout to produce a variety of products is essential to efficiency. Our completely integrated factory layout, line design & optimization solution enables you to maximize productivity, increase profitability and determine the best way to realize your products.

Factory Layout, Line Design & Optimization for Home & Office Goods

Consumer products industry, such as furniture, sporting goods, shoes, clothes, and objects for home and office, is experiencing reduced margins along with the need to rapidly introduce new products. Designing the factory layout to produce a variety of products  is essential to efficiency. Our completely integrated factory layout, line design optimization solution enables you to maximize productivity, increase profitability and determine the best way to realize your products.

Factory layout, line design & optimization for industrial machinery

Our factory layout, line design and optimization solution for industrial machinery allows you to design, layout, and configure your factory environment and optimize factory operations using digital 3D factory models and advanced software tools.

Production planning & scheduling for industrial machinery

Production planning and scheduling solution for industrial machinery provides a suite of tools that helps planners, from owner-operators to equipment OEM’s to work together to optimize production processes within the digital enterprise to increase efficiency, flexibility and time-to-market.

Integrated quality management for industrial machinery

Our quality management solution provides manufacturers with the ability to improve quality and reduce costs along the entire product lifecycle by providing a closed-loop quality environment that will optimize operational efficiency and help to drive out waste and scrap, allowing you to build a best-in-class manufacturing operation.

In-service Data Management for Industrial Machinery

In-service Data Management solution for the Industrial machinery Industry addresses the need for providing capabilities to manage physical product and related information and processes, specifically, test data management, as-built, and as-maintained (serviced) and perform functions related to servicing those physical products.

Electro-Mechanical Design for Consumer & Industrial Electronics

We understand electro-mechanical design’s challenging service entry requirements. In response, we offer the best-in-class design solution enabling consumer and industrial electronics companies to get the right products to market faster and exceed customer expectations.

Next Generation Machine Design

Deliver greater innovation in your machinery solutions with increasing mechatronic content, comprehensive 3D product design, integrated simulation, and unmatched data management capabilities. Bring your custom machinery to customer acceptance faster, with higher quality and greater margins, by implementing our broad and deep solution suite.

Environmental Compliance Management for Electronics

Electronics manufacturers are constantly under strict environmental regulations and typically subject to export law, which can increase supply chain costs and expose companies to significant fines and brand erosion in case of noncompliance. Our solution maximizes the visibility of regulation compliance status in all stages of the product lifecycle by integrating material data into the product lifecycle, creating a sustainability framework to address current and future environmentally-related needs.

Mechanical Design for Medical Instruments & Equipment

Innovate continuously, and with speed and confidence that your mechanical design environment will allow your medical device organization to create designs which seamlessly incorporate biomedical user needs and multidisciplinary engineering design outputs.

Environmental Compliance Management

Our environmental compliance and product sustainability management solutions serve as an effective and rapid response to the global quest to protect our planet and its inhabitants. It is based on a single source of information concept that allows you to trace the material composition of your products and identify green alternatives. Limit use of hazardous substances, reduce the risk of regulatory non-compliance, and satisfy consumer demand for transparency, growing your business with innovative, earth-friendly products.

Part Manufacturing & Quality

Our Part Manufacturing and Quality solution offers a comprehensive set of fully integrated tools for part manufacturing, including CAD/CAM, robotics, CNC machining, CMM inspection and 3D printing.

Product Cost Management for Industrial Machinery

Machine and equipment costs are under constant pressure and increasingly stringent governmental regulations. Customized user specifications around the globe affect delivery, costing and quality control processes in the industrial machinery and heavy equipment industry. Our solutions help deliver a competitive advantage through an effective, sophisticated product cost solution that integrates a world class PLM program with precise cost management tools.

Part Manufacturing for Aerospace & Defense

It is no secret that manufacturing challenges in the aerospace industry are growing. Advanced materials, such as composites, and advanced technologies, such as additive manufacturing, are driving up manufacturing complexity. Automated processes are replacing labor-intensive applications on the shop floor, and this is increasing the need for specialized tools. Our manufacturing solution offers a comprehensive set of fully integrated tools for part manufacturing, including CAD/CAM, robotics, CNC machining, CMM inspection, and 3D printing.

Technical Publishing for Consumer Products

Publications provided with products must be correct and must comply with regulations. They also need to be personalized to geographic regions or customers. Our solution suite keeps technical publications up-to-date with product changes and allows direct usage of engineering source data. Our integrated document management and publishing solutions synchronize your document development and management processes with product data in your PLM environment.

Package Design for Food & Beverage

Packaging is a brand’s best marketing vehicle, but it also has to perform under daily use. Designers must deal with environmental compliance, faster product cycles due to social media, and new levels of mechanical stress with online commerce on the rise. Our suite of package design and visualization capabilities enables designers to create consumer-preferred packages with structural integrity and the assurance of efficient and effective manufacture worldwide.

Artwork Development for Beauty, Personal & Home Care

Artwork is the main communication of brand equity and the critical information needed to inspire a purchase. It must be right, compliant and communicate the claims and benefits of the product. Artwork build on the foundation of a PLM will increase agility and quality, reduce the risk of recall, and improve the designer’s ability to focus on creative aspects that drive purchase and loyalty.

Advanced machine engineering solutions

Enabling the plan-to-production process can be difficult. With Siemens Digital Industries Software’s machine design solution, Advanced Machine Engineering, your company can immediately begin the digital innovation journey and improve productivity. Our Advanced Machine Engineering solution ensures greater certainty in the development of mature machines, reducing ramp-up time in production through virtual design and commissioning, resulting in better upfront validation, shorter commissioning times, and more immediate productivity.

Tooling & Fixtures for Medical Devices & Pharmaceuticals

Our end-to-end tooling and fixtures solutions for medical devices optimize part manufacturing processes using digital twins to unify the digital and physical worlds.

Structural Integrity and Durability

Your customers need machines that will last and minimize downtown.  That means you need to engineer your machines to withstand multiple types of loads over millions of cycles to deliver the longevity your customers expect. Our simulation and testing solutions provide a complete and effective durability engineering process, from high-quality, automated load data acquisition and target setting, to load prediction on full product level, to stress and lifetime behavior assessment of components!

Thermal & Energy Management

Engineer the thermal performance of your machines from the earliest stages of development. Siemens Digital Industries Software has thermal and energy solutions that can help you at every step of the development process, from 1D systems modeling to 3D coupled thermal-fluid simulation of cooling systems to simulation of how temperature will affect machine components.

Performance & Efficiency

Efficiency, flow rate, heat exchange, and controls are all critical performance criteria of HVAC systems like heat pumps, air conditioners and furnaces.  Siemens Digital Industries Software simulation and testing solutions give you the tools you need to determine if your HVAC system meets requirements for these criteria and more before you ever need to build a prototype.

Noise, Vibration & Dynamics Performance Optimization for Industrial Machinery

Rattle, whine, torsional vibration, rotor dynamics, and other noise and vibration issues are common in rotating machinery. Reduce noise and vibration with a comprehensive set of advanced vibration and acoustic simulation and testing solutions that can help you earlier predict the dynamic and acoustic performance of your machine, as well as determine the source and transfer path of noise in machines that are already in the field.

Flow & Thermal Design

Engineer the thermal performance of rotating machines from the earliest stages of development. Siemens Digital Industries Software has thermal and energy solutions that can help you at every step of the development process, from 1D systems modeling to 3D coupled thermal-fluid simulation of cooling systems to simulation of how temperature will affect machine components.

Digital Mockup, Virtual & Augmented Reality for Consumer Products

In the past, verifying product and packaging functionality before placing a product on the market required a long and expensive process that involved the creation of one or more physical mock-ups. This process is becoming increasingly less possible in a consumer market that requires personalization, innovation and speed. Our digital mockup and design review solutions enable teams across the supply chain to assemble, visualize, and analyze models and detect issues early, before manufacturing.

Digital Mockup, Virtual & Augmented Reality for Trucks, Busses & Specialty Vehicles

Digital Markup, Augmented and Virtual Reality for the Industrial Machinery Industry is a lifecycle visualization and mockup technology allows design teams to immersing themselves in the virtual world of the product’s digital twin to create high-level digital prototypes comprised of thousands of parts and components.

Next Generation Design for Mold, Tool, & Die

Our Next Generation Mold, Tool & Die Design solution leverages synchronous technology to efficiently work and modify Multi-CAD data and early validation of mold designs to create a competitive advantage by reducing part turnaround time and increasing quality in the final design.

Tool Cost Management

Tool cost management solution for the mold, tool, and die industry provides tooling manufacturers with the ability to create highly accurate quotations and cut the time periods for proposal preparation significantly. The solution enables a parametric calculation of various tool technologies. You can take advantage of the integrated knowledge database which includes reference data, as well as an integrated process time calculator, ensuring an enterprise-wide consistent calculation standard.

Sound & vibration testing

Simcenter testing helps sound and vibration engineers to make smarter decisions, increase testing productivity, ensure compliance with industry standards, and ultimately deliver a unique sound and vibration quality experience.

PLM for Component Manufacturers

PLM for Component Manufacturers is a Teamcenter X industry solution that offers a fully integrated cloud, SaaS PLM solution for component manufacturers of any size. Real-time collaboration enables teams to streamline engagement with their supply chain. With inherent, preconfigured best practices, companies can accelerate product launches, share and reuse product data, improve program management, and smooth the transition from order to manufacturing.

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Digitalization for Plastics

Many manufacturers of plastic parts are faced with a variety of design and production challenges, including shortages of skilled workers, which are impacting capacity and delivery.

Our digitalization solutions for the plastics industry facilitate rapid design iterations and virtual validation prior to production by connecting machines, equipment, and people into a single system to help manufacturers make the most efficient use of the skilled production teams to satisfy their customers.

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