The beginning of a quality additive manufacturing process is always in the design. Additive manufacturing provides the ability to manufacture highly complex designs with features like optimized surfaces and lattice structures. Siemens Digital Industries Software AM solutions allow you to design and print complex geometries at scale.

Simulation of the build process can help you generate quality 3D prints at scale. From build orientation optimization to meso-scale deposition path optimization, NX has the tools you need to print successfully the first time.

NX allows the designer and manufacturer to validate their AM parts at every step along the way.  Validate the printability of your part and then simulate its performance in the field with integrated tools to help you print production-ready parts.

When considering additive manufacturing as a production process, companies often partner with a print provider and as such must consider many factors.  Siemens' Additive Manufacturing Network (AMN) provides an online order-to-delivery collaboration platform to co-create AM parts with a comprehensive ecosystem of AM manufacturers. It brings the right people together to deliver on manufacturing needs, while instantly locating suppliers and consultants in local or preferred geographic areas.  Find more information here

In order to get the most from the additive manufacturing process, companies need a quality AM process with a strong set of IoT and analytics solutions.  Siemens provides the ability to monitor the additive manufacturing process, analyze the resulting data, and act upon that data with part and process improvements. This close feedback loop allows companies to feed insights back into upstream phases of the additive manufacturing process to optimize next-generation innovation.