NX Overview Brochure

Smarter decisions, better products. NX Transforming the entire product development process with high-performance, integrated solutions for design, simulation and manufacturing www.siemens.com/nx Introducing NX Globalization and increasing complex- Transform your product development ity – of products, markets, and develop- process to work smarter, not harder, ment processes – are key opportunities finding new efficiencies to drive innova- for manufacturing companies. To suc- tion and capitalize on market ceed, manufacturers must improve opportunities. their ability to perform more complicated engineering, design, analysis, and Make accurate decisions faster by production tasks, and be capable of providing up-to-date product information managing increasingly complex product and analytics to better address engineer- information. Fortunately, advances in ing, design and manufacturing problems. information technology make it possible not only to manage complexity, but also Deliver products “right to market, first to improve your product development time” by using virtual models and simula- processes. tion to effectively evaluate product performance and manufacturability, and NX™, the product development solution by continuously validating designs for from Siemens PLM Software, delivers compliance with industry, company, and the advanced performance and leading- customer requirements. edge technologies you need to master complexity and compete globally. Collaborate effectively with partners Supporting every aspect of product and suppliers with technologies for development, NX delivers tightly sharing, communicating, and protecting integrated, unified solutions for design, product and manufacturing process simulation and manufacturing that are information throughout the value chain. unmatched in power and flexibility. NX solutions redefine productivity and Support design from concept through efficiency, helping you to deliver more manufacturing with a comprehensive, innovative products faster and at integrated toolset that coordinates lower cost. disciplines, preserves data integrity and design intent, and streamlines the entire More than integrated CAD/CAM/CAE, development process. NX also provides collaboration, data management, process automation, and decision support tools that help you upgrade your development processes to gain and keep a competitive advantage. Companies worldwide are realizing the distinct benefits of NX product development solutions. You can see immediate and long-term business results: 2 Where NX excels Robust and powerful problem solving. versatile selection of approaches, Productivity. NX improves productivity NX addresses extremely complex tools and techniques to accomplish in product design, engineering, simula- product development problems. NX development tasks – even if you are tion, tooling design and manufactur- design tools have the performance working with product data created in ing through re-use. Your development and capacity to easily tackle complex other systems. teams can directly re-use CAD data geometry and massive assemblies. from other systems – minimizing the Advanced simulation capabilities in Coordination. NX delivers a unified need to re-master data and improving NX handle the most demanding CAE environment and consistent processes cycle times. challenges, significantly reducing that can accelerate your cycle times. The physical prototyping. NX also enables seamless integration of NX applications Open environment. NX open you to improve your manufacturing enables you to rapidly propagate architecture enables you to protect by taking advantage of today’s most information and process changes your existing IT investments by advanced tooling and machining across all development disciplines, from readily incorporating solutions from technologies. concept design to manufacturing. NX other vendors in the digital product leverages Siemens’ Teamcenter® PLM development process. Flexibility. In addition to the best- software to establish a single source of in-class solution suite, NX provides product and process knowledge that unprecedented flexibility to employ coordinates all phases of development, technology of your own choosing. Your standardizes your processes and team can use a accelerates decision making. 3 Industrial design and styling Advantages Create distinctive designs in which style, aesthetic appearance, or quality of form is a key market differentiator Consider styling, functionality, manufacturability and affordability throughout an iterative design process Rapidly evaluate design concepts through photorealistic images and virtual prototypes Eliminate disconnect between your design/styling teams and the rest of your product development organization Design what you want and how you want it without the constraints of standalone design tools NX delivers an industrial design and styling design review, while virtual prototyping can toolset that helps develop distinctive be used for rapid concept evaluation and designs with form, fit, and function for iterative design validation. a positive customer experience. Concept designs then seamlessly transition through Reverse engineering. NX can generate CAD a complete concept-to-market process. models from scanned physical objects by mapping surfaces and curves to the polygon Concept design and styling. NX gives mesh. Designers can use NX analysis and designers the freedom to develop their rendering tools to rapidly evaluate the concepts using the most appropriate imported scan data. modeling approach, including standard parametric and freeform techniques, with Full design completion. NX has all of the surface analysis and advanced visualization tools and integration required to facilitate for concept evaluation. With NX high- full design completion. NX enables you to end surfacing tools, designers can create take the concept model directly into product different surface types and combine curve- engineering, including detailed design, based surfacing, pole editing and sweeping simulation, tooling and machining. into a single workflow that lets them choose the best modeling tool for the task at hand. Sophisticated NX modeling and visualization tools let designers quickly refine the design concept by applying color, materials, textures and lighting. NX real-time rendering enables designers to generate advanced photo-realistic images for rapid 4 Package design Advantages Create innovative package designs to attract customers in crowded, competitive marketplaces Minimize cycle time from product/package design to manufacturing Meet look and styling requirements while delivering functional, manufacturable and affordable package designs Automate the design validation process to rapidly address today’s environmental/green concerns Maximize package design re-use by developing concept models with high quality surfaces that can be leveraged throughout a complete product lifecycle NX package design solutions enable you to Reverse engineering. Reverse engineering deliver distinctive package designs that are capabilities greatly reduce the time required visually compelling, as well as functionally to initially develop the package design superior in terms of their manufacturability, concept by scanning physical objects such affordability and maintainability. as clay or foam models, then generating CAD models by mapping surfaces and The complete NX toolset includes powerful curves to the polygon mesh. NX also design creation, shape editing and provides tools to analyze scanned models production surfacing capabilities – all the for stress/crush, mold-fill, manufacturability tools required to fully explore shape and and virtual consumer testing. style. Designers can create and modify package shapes using a combination of “Green” compliance. NX validation curve-, surface- and solid-based design checking enables you to initiate an techniques, with high-performance automatic process to ensure that your visualization tools to quickly refine the product and package designs comply with design concept by applying color, materials, environmental, industry and customer- textures and lighting. NX provides the specified standards. You can use these freedom and control that designers require capabilities to continuously monitor your to evaluate and manipulate shapes in designs as they evolve across the entire real time. Advanced real-time rendering product lifecycle. produces photorealistic images that accelerate the packaging review cycle. 5 Mechanical design Advantages Accelerate the design process and improve design throughput Improve design team productivity and performance, especially when handling large complex models Fully integrate all of your design teams across the entire development cycle by retaining design intent even when different disciplines use multiple CAD systems Raise quality and minimize design errors with automated validation Maximize design re-use by establishing common product platforms and building established best practices in your development processes Increasingly complex products require the enabled design. NX helps you capture and participation of multiple teams, disciplines re-use knowledge in the form of high-level and suppliers using independent CAD product structures, templates, frequently systems and different modeling techniques. used design elements, engineering rules Leading edge CAD modeling tools in NX and validation checks to reduce design costs represent a breakthrough in terms of power, and improve design quality. versatility,

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