Industrial machinery and heavy equipment Werner Langer

From ideas to plastic parts – quickly and accurately

Product NX

Business challenges Meet customers’ continuously rising quality standards Stay at peak of technology curve with both machinery and tool design methods

Keys to success Adopt I-deas CAD/CAM software to eliminate IGES- related file transfer errors Expand access to design data through Team Data Manager Migrate to NX and NX CAM

Results CAD data is directly available to toolmakers; tool With seamlessly integrated CAD/ quality plastic parts. The firm is a development time has CAM, Werner Langer meets supplier to the automobile, construction, electronics, household goods, furniture, dropped 40 percent customers’ demanding quality sanitary and sports and recreation Decreased costs and tool requirements industries. Langer is also Europe’s largest development time benefit supplier to the living-space lighting indus- the bottom line Werner Langer’s high-profile clients try. Clients such as these expect the Accurate parts and timely expect only the best, which requires this highest level of technological expertise, delivery ensure customer plastic part manufacturer to maintain not only of the firm’s production machin- satisfaction state-of-the-art machinery and ery (more than 40 injection molding tool-design processes. machines), but also of its design and tool-making processes. Customers expect the best Werner Langer GmbH & Co. KG, with 120 CAD/CAM solutions are not new to Langer. employees, develops and produces high- The firm has been using them since 1990.

www..com/nx “Our CAD/CAM investments In 1995 the company decided to adopt 3D different design engineers to work on the have been economically design to help meet the continually rising same project simultaneously and to profitable. By immensely quality standards its customers imposed. exchange CAD data simply by clicking a reducing design and time, Langer’s original 3D CAD/CAM system con- button. The efficiency of this solution was we have not only cut costs sisted of Varimetrix CAD software and enhanced by the I-deas mold-design appli- but also improved our flexi- Camand for CAM. Tool design data from cation, Core Cavity. With these integrated bility. Now we meet the Varimetrix was transferred to Camand via applications, geometry for roughing and requirements of our custom- the IGES format. Some contours were lost milling work became available directly to ers faster and more in the process of transferring the data, the toolmakers and tool development time efficiently.” however, and these had to be recreated was reduced by up to 40 percent. within Camand. This slowed the tool Werner Langer GmbH & Co KG development process and introduced the More functionality with NX possibility for error. Although everyone was happy with this system, Langer needed additional These problems led the company to search functionality not available from I-deas, for an integrated CAD/CAM solution. In such as applications for electrical discharge 1999 Langer chose I-deas™ software (now machining and highspeed milling. The called NX™ I-deas), which which integrates consolidation of SDRC and Unigraphics CAD and CAM within a single database. Solutions to form what is now Siemens With I-deas, the problem of converting PLM Software, and the subsequent inte- one data format to another and the gration of I-deas functionality within NX, subsequent reworking of surfaces became provided the missing elements. NX CAM a thing of the past. Another advantage of provided many additional machining strat- I-deas was its integrated product data egies as well as support for simple management system, called Team Data and high-speed milling. Its routines for Manager (TDM). TDM made it possible for rotation and wire erosion were impressive.

The [NX] CAD/CAM system helps deliver customer satisfaction by ensuring accuracy even for the most complicated parts. Solutions/Services Authorized dealer Alphacam GmbH offered NX to exchange Langer’s I-deas licenses for www.siemens.com/nx NX at the end of the year 2000. Since then, Langer has benefited from an optimized integrated CAD/CAM system that supports Customer’s primary business all of its tool design and construction Werner Langer GmbH & Co KG requirements. develops and produces high- quality plastic parts. Langer uses its own system specialists to www.werner-langer.de administer the networked system and main- tain the software. Alphacam, which has been working with Langer for more than Customer location 10 years, provides the software support, Sauerland training and further education for Langer’s Germany system specialists and second-level support. Trained system specialists then use their expertise to train other engineers as well as tool makers and instrument mechanics. This guarantees that employees possess the best and latest knowledge, and that optimal application usage is ensured.

Langer’s CAD/CAM investments have proved to be economically profitable, providing such bottom-line benefits as holding down costs and reducing tool Image courtesy of Philips making time. The CAD/CAM system also helps deliver customer satisfaction by ensuring accuracy even for the most complicated parts.

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