Industrial Machinery

Digital transformation in the manufacturing industry

Technological innovation, demanding customization and fierce global competition require industrial machinery manufacturers to continuously innovate and optimize products. To this end, machinery manufacturers must employ advanced multidisciplinary design techniques and virtual tools to reduce time to market, improve machine performance, engineer greater reliability, and take control of the cost of ownership.

Industrial Machinery

Digital transformation in the manufacturing industry

Technological innovation, demanding customization and fierce global competition require industrial machinery manufacturers to continuously innovate and optimize products. To this end, machinery manufacturers must employ advanced multidisciplinary design techniques and virtual tools to reduce time to market, improve machine performance, engineer greater reliability, and take control of the cost of ownership.

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The industrial machinery landscape grows increasingly complex each year. To help you conquer forthcoming trends and overcome any organizational, operational and machine performance challenges, we put together a series of blogs and podcasts with industry leaders. Discover the latest insights, best practices and thought leadership principles to abide by within the industrial machinery space.

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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.

Reliability, Functional & Systems Safety for Heavy Equipment

Reliability and System Safety for the Industrial Machinery and Heavy Equipment Industry leverages an integrated “Design for Support” approach which increases the machinery system reliability while decreasing the maintenance and logistics footprint, reducing the total cost of ownership.

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.

Powertrain Mechanical Design

Powertrain Mechanical Design for the Heavy Equipment Industry combines advanced simulation capabilities and best-in-class generative design software to create a state-of-the-art modeling environment to quickly assess the efficiency of powertrain designs.

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.

Manufacturing & Production Machine Performance Engineering

Engineering tomorrow’s advanced production machines requires a new engineering approach. Mechanical, electrical, electronics, and software system performance all must come together and exceed your customers’ expectations. Simcenter can help you engineer, simulate and virtually commission advanced machines from concept to validation to in-service deployment.

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.

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.

Supply Chain Collaboration for Heavy Equipment

Our solution offers an easy-to-use, secure platform for interacting with suppliers, even those outside of your PLM environment. A holistic view of product structure, including supplier data, is available by storing and providing product data in a centralized database.

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 process planning & simulation

Manufacturing process planning and simulation for the industrial machinery industry is designed to enable manufacturing enterprises to manage their highly complex, configured-to-order product variations and produce them as required to meet regional and local regulations and specific customer requirements.

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.

Manufacturing Process & Data Management

The Manufacturing Lifecycle Management Solution for the Heavy Equipment 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.

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.

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.

Automation Engineering & Commissioning for Industrial Machinery

Machine manufacturers are looking for increased speed to market to help gain a competitive advantage in today’s highly competitive global manufacturing environment. Our Automation Engineering and Commissioning solution allows manufacturers to significantly shorten the commissioning time of machine tools and identify faults at the earliest possible time by connecting the digital twin or the virtual machine model with the real control system to enable validation of the overall system by testing machine designs under real-world conditions.

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.

Manufacturing execution management for industrial machinery

Manufacturing Execution Management is a sophisticated, highly scalable Manufacturing Execution System (MES) that delivers the ability to combine global production efficiency with quality and visibility, as well as production optimization, ultimately resulting in higher manufacturing responsiveness.

MES for Job Shops

Our MES for Job Shop solution for the Mold, Tool and Die industry provides the ability to collect, aggregate, analyze, and display raw data to generate timely, actionable, in-context information by Integrating, contextualizing, and checking the accuracy of the data from the shop floor.

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.

In-service Data Management for Heavy Equipment

In-service Data Management solution for the heavy equipment industry allows customers to manage the entire lifecycle of product configuration from concept to variants, from designed to manufacture and service.

Service Engineering & Support for Industrial Machinery

Service Engineering and Support for the Industrial Machinery Industry lets you utilize existing product knowledge from design and simulation to determine service requirements, service plans, and service instructions, that need to be developed, validated and documented prior to the delivery of your product.

Service Operations for Industrial Machinery

Service Operations for the Industrial Machinery Industry lets you coordinate maintenance activities from previously defined service plans and asset status or from service demands which enable service organizations to generate service work orders, schedule service events, assign service tasks, support service technicians with information and task orders, and track to closure all service work required and performed.

Technical publishing for industrial machinery

The amount of complexity inside industrial machinery is growing at a pace never seen before, thanks to Industry 4.0, customization and globalization. Bringing your document development and management processes into your PLM environment enables you to address this complexity with a more efficient and accurate development process that avoids the duplication errors and out-of-date information caused by manual, paper-based tasks. This solution also enables you to generate richer 2D and 3D content, making it easier to give end users information in the media they choose.

Engineering data management for industrial machinery

Industrial machinery manufacturing is becoming more complex with the increasing requirements of embedded software and electronics content. Many manufacturers are challenged with these new and ever-changing needs. Manage multi-disciplinary machinery and equipment engineering teams with an integrated approach to engineering lifecycle management that leverages integrated requirements management, secure supplier collaboration and an engineering management platform that combines mechanical, electronic, software and simulation data into a single collaborative environment.

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.

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.

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!

Noise & Vibration

Siemens Digital Industries Software offers 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.

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 HVAC

Customers want HVAC systems to be as quiet as possible.  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 furnace, air conditioner or heat pump, as well as determine the source and transfer path of noise in systems that are already installed in buildings.

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 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.

Service lifecycle & analytics

Companies that leverage an end-to-end approach to managing products are more likely to optimize their processes, increase productivity and decrease wasted resources. An important component in product lifecycle management are analytics. With our service lifecycle and analytics solutions, we help you leverage the internet of things to gain key insights on machine performance, production levels and other operational areas. These metrics form the basis of the comprehensive digital twin, a virtual representation of machines used for testing machine/factory conditions and actionizing strategic decisions.

Closed-loop quality for industrial machinery manufacturers

Closed-Loop Quality merges a collaborative PLM platform with Siemens Quality Management system, where quality documentation, data, analytics, and process can participate in the digital thread along with the product definition, manufacturing process information and other digital elements that make up the digital thread to support quality management throughout the manufacturing process.

Production & Plant Optimization

Production & Plant Optimization solution helps you unify global manufacturing teams, to work on the same machine requirements, models and manufacturing process plans while having the flexibility to meet local specs. In this collaborative environment, manufacturers who are either working to support an OEM or to deliver and install machines to end customers, benefit from better simulation and optimization of manufacturing planning, optimized design, and manufacturing processes, and manufacturing intelligence connected with product development.

Service Lifecycle and Analytics

Service Lifecycle and Analytics allows Industrial Machinery manufactures to utilize a modular machine design approach resulting in a product development process which produces decentralized and autonomous machines that are able to communicate with one another.

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.

Smarter Machines

Develop smarter machines that understand requirements and deliver intelligent solutions while radically reducing manufacturing waste and energy consumption.

Reliability

Develop reliable smart HVAC systems and components in a shorter time and with minimum prototype testing.

Smart Building

Implement a customized smart home automation system taking into consideration the performance and source of the energy.

Modular Design HVAC

Balance space, efficiency, performance, and durability of HVAC systems through intelligent design.

Intelligent performance engineering

Machinery manufacturing is becoming far more complex as increased integration with software and electrical systems of machines are combined with their manufacturing environment. Our intelligent Performance Engineering solution can help automate the processes of sharing information between design teams, analysts, production test teams and service engineers. This allows teams to evaluate the capabilities and limitations of product variations in the most efficient way.

Digital part production

Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), as well as their supply chain partners, are tasked with manufacturing parts and components for industrial machines. For both organizations, functionality on the shop floor is critical. Our Digital Part Production solution ensures new parts are integrated into the larger machine while meeting high tolerances and precision needs. This provides parts that are built quickly and ensure reliability and the highest quality while maximizing production capacity.

Smart manufacturing

Increasingly, component makers require agile manufacturing processes to outpace competition and deliver specialized products sooner. With our smart manufacturing solutions, organizations can digitally transform their enterprise and maximize operational efficiency. This all begins with using the digital twin to plan products and assemblies; implementing a flexible manufacturing system to execute production; and finally, leveraging the industrial internet of things to optimize quality.

Accelerated product introduction

Component manufacturers are often challenged to supply machine builders with the latest and greatest assets. Assets can range from small, simple, single-piece items, to complex hydraulic, pneumatic and electrical units engineered in large quantities. By tapping into virtual machining solutions, these two segments can deliver products at volume while tracking changes throughout the development process, helping drive down costs and optimize output.

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    Increased customization and sophisticated software controls challenge today’s industrial machinery industry to deliver machine systems in scope, time and budget. Software and automated product systems are becoming more complex, requiring integration with IoT sensors and increased emphasis on software and system validation. These requirements challenge engineering operations to control of mechanical, electrical and software versions to support customers and benefit from design reuse.

    Proof-of-concept projects in unfamiliar technologies disrupt the standard machinery platform approach and threaten profitability. Integration extends to the manufacturing floor and supply chain, driving the need for increased, closed-loop quality with a focus on reducing operating costs and waste. The result is a need to improve the sophistication and interoperability of design, simulation, manufacturing and service operations, without losing speed or data integrity.

    Machinery designers are constantly faced with design challenges, requiring innovative solutions that expand part conceptualization beyond conventional 3D approaches. Couple design challenges with time to market and compressed margins, and it becomes essential to improve efficiency and validate virtually before manufacturing.

    A single-source data management system is essential to managing data, while also keeping focus on the engineering, manufacturing and product life BOM. Siemens Digital Industries Software provides the tools needed to deliver innovative and profitable machine systems.

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