Power to Reshape the Future

Siemens PLM Software NX Power to reshape the future

siemens.com/nx Introducing NX

“NX is very powerful. NX™, the product development solution Companies worldwide are realizing the It gives us tools that move from Siemens PLM Software, delivers the distinct benefits of NX product advanced performance and leading-edge development solutions. You can see seamlessly between the technologies you need to master immediate and long-term business different phases of design complexity and compete globally. results as our solutions enable you to: and manufacturing, and Supporting every aspect of product Transform your product development it integrates the whole development, from concept design process so you work smarter, not harder, through engineering and manufacturing, finding new efficiencies to drive cycle.” NX gives you an integrated toolset that innovation and capitalize on market coordinates disciplines, preserves data opportunities. Ivor McDonnell integrity and design intent, and Make smarter decisions faster by Senior Mechanical Engineer streamlines the entire process. University of Leicester providing up-to-date product information Space Research Centre With the broadest, most powerful and and analytics to better address best integrated suite of applications, engineering, design and manufacturing NX boosts productivity to help you make problems. smarter decisions and deliver better Develop products “right the first time” by products faster and more efficiently. using virtual models and simulation to More than a toolset for computer-aided accurately evaluate product performance design, engineering and manufacturing and manufacturability, and by (CAD/CAM/CAE), NX also enables continuously validating designs for collaboration between designers, compliance with industry, company and engineers and the broader organization customer requirements. through integrated data management, Collaborate effectively with partners process automation, decision support and suppliers with technologies for and other tools that help you refine sharing, communicating and protecting your development processes. product and manufacturing process information throughout the value chain. Support development from concept “Using NX is a huge strength for through manufacturing, with a us. It supports decision-making comprehensive, integrated toolset that streamlines the entire process with early on in the development seamless data sharing between process, takes us from concept to designers, product and manufacturing production tools within a single engineers to enable greater innovation. environment, and avoids long revision loops. It enables us to retain orderly and timely responsibility for our design.”

Andrew Fayle Designer The Alloy

2 The NX advantage

NX provides a unified platform for product development with advanced solutions for design, simulation and manufacturing.

Unmatched capabilities NX leverages Teamcenter® software, Open environment No other solution offers a more a collaborative product development The open architecture in NX enables you comprehensive or powerful toolset management (cPDM) solution from to protect your existing IT investments by for product development. Siemens PLM Software, to establish a readily incorporating solutions from NX delivers: single source of product and process other vendors in the digital product knowledge that coordinates all phases of development process. • Advanced solutions for conceptual development, standardizes your design, 3D modeling and processes and accelerates decision Proven results documentation making. NX has enabled customers to increase • Multidiscipline simulation for the number of new products; reduce structural, motion, thermal, flow, Superior productivity development time by more than 30 multiphysics and optimization NX uses high-performance tools and percent; shorten design-analysis applications leading-edge technology to address iterations by more than 70 percent and • Complete part manufacturing solu- extremely complex problems. NX design reduce computer numerical control tions for tooling, machining tools easily tackle complex geometry and (CNC) programming time by up to and quality inspection massive assemblies. The advanced 90 percent. simulation capabilities in NX handle the Fully integrated product most demanding CAE challenges, development significantly reducing physical NX brings together the tools for every prototyping. NX also enables you to development task in a unified solution. improve your manufacturing by taking All technical domains work concurrently advantage of the most advanced tooling from the same product model data. The and machining technologies. seamless integration enables you to rapidly propagate information and process changes across all development disciplines.

3 NX for design

“ NX is the most powerful design software I’ve ever used. The solid models, the assemblies, all of the things that come together in the modeling aspect produce better results.”

Chad Schwartz Lead Design Engineer Wright Medical Technology

Advantages High performance product design NX includes powerful assembly design tools • Reduce design time by NX can help you deliver greater innovation with performance and capacity that enable you more than 30 percent at higher quality and lower cost with to work interactively in the full assembly • Increase the num- comprehensive 3D product design. context, even with the most complex models. Assembly navigation, multi-CAD mockup, ber of new product With unmatched power, versatility and interference analysis, path planning and other introductions flexibility, NX gives your design teams the engineering tools accelerate assembly design freedom to use the most productive approach • Improve team productiv- and improve quality. ity through re-use for the task at hand. Designers can select wireframe, surface, solid parametric or direct For specialized design tasks, NX offers process- • Work seamlessly with modeling techniques with seamless specific modeling tools that outperform data from other CAD interchange. general purpose CAD for sheet metal design, systems weld design and electrical and mechanical With the synchronous technology in NX, you • Validate designs against routing. product requirements can create and edit geometry with unparalleled speed and ease, even using models created on NX also offers design templates that help you • Make smarter design other CAD systems. accelerate design and standardize engineering decisions with visual processes. You can quickly create templates analytics from existing models and easily re-use them for new designs. Templates can also include simulation, drafting, validation and other engineering best practices.

4 Integrated industrial design Electromechanical design Advantages With advanced freeform modeling, shape NX integrates mechanical, electronic and • Optimize form, fit and analysis, rendering and visualization tools, electrical designs and processes in a unified function NX delivers all the capabilities of dedicated solution for electromechanical product • Create freeform shapes industrial design systems, and also offers design. and iterate concepts complete integration with NX design, faster simulation and manufacturing. From printed circuit board design to • Preserve design intent mechanical packaging and electrical wiring from concept through NX freeform modeling gives you the and harness design, NX gives you tools that production power and creative flexibility to explore support collaboration among disciplines. • Integrate mechanical alternative design concepts quickly. A versatile, Mechanical, electrical, and control systems and electrical disciplines integrated toolset combines 2D, 3D, curve, designers can use a concurrent process to and processes surface, solid, parametric and synchronous deliver high-quality products. • Improve ECAD/MCAD modeling for fast and easy shape creation information exchange and editing. You can easily sculpt from basic To optimize product performance, NX includes shapes, or use reverse engineering to create simulation solutions that address all major • Accelerate development concept models from physical objects. causes of electromechanical product failure. and achieve lower costs with concurrent development processes Shape analysis and validation tools in NX help ensure the integrity, quality and manufacturability of your designs.

5 “ We have no limitation on shape, which is vital to a designer. We are not forced to adapt our design to the tool. We can visualize what the final product could be and have it validated by all the groups involved in the development process, from marketing to manufacturing.”

Mathias Allély Founder Keyox

Advantages Drafting and documentation Visual analytics and validation • Accelerate drawing NX includes powerful capabilities for 2D With the visual product analytics and design creation and design, layout, drafting, annotation and validation tools in NX, you can quickly maintenance documentation. synthesize information, check designs for compliance to requirements and make better • Ensure accuracy of You can quickly and efficiently create 2D informed decisions. drawings and compliance layouts and engineering drawings with highly with standards productive tools that are optimized for 2D and NX brings critical product, business and • Increase productivity hybrid 2D/3D workflows. Built-in drafting program information to 3D design. With and quality with standards ensure that your drawings comply high-definition visual reporting, you can 3D annotation with national and international drafting readily answer questions about project status, standards. design changes, team responsibilities, issues, • Enhance design with problems, cost, suppliers and other attributes. visual reporting of With NX, you can fully document designs with critical information 3D annotation on your CAD models. You can Automated validation in NX continuously • Interpret data quickly re-use the product and manufacturing monitors your designs for adherence to and accurately information in drawings, validation, standards and requirements. NX validation manufacturing and other applications. checking helps to ensure product quality, • Improve decision-making eliminate errors and optimize designs for • Automatically monitor performance and manufacturability. designs for compliance with standards and requirements

6 Knowledge re-use capabilities Design productivity tools Advantages With NX, you can meet higher cost-cutting NX augments design with tools and • Quickly and easily targets and time-to-market deadlines through technologies that help you maximize speed, capture, manage, find re-use. NX helps you capture, manage, productivity and efficiency in product and re-use design locate and re-use a broad range of design development. information information. Communication, collaboration and data • Dramatically reduce A built-in library serves as a centralized exchange capabilities help you share product development time, repository for models, templates, standard information with customers and suppliers, cost and effort parts, features and other design elements. even if they are using different CAD systems. • Reduce time to market Designers can quickly locate what they NX also offers NX Open programming and for product variations need and use simple drag-and-drop tech- customization tools to help you extend and • Easily communicate and niques to include objects in new designs. tailor software capabilities to your specific collaborate with partners, NX also integrates with Teamcenter and needs. customers and suppliers Geolus® Search software to rapidly locate and When you move to NX, you can use robust • Automate processes re-use 3D data. Designers can navigate through content migration tools to quickly and and extend capabilities classification hierarchies and search for efficiently leverage your investment in legacy with programming and re-usable design information by attribute or product data, while reducing the time, effort customization shape. and risk required to re-use information from other systems.

7 NX for simulation

Advantages Smarter engineering decisions A modern CAE environment • Reduce model Today’s companies want to accelerate NX CAE is a modern, multi-discipline preparation time by innovation by using simulation to evaluate environment for advanced analysts, 70 percent different design alternatives, conduct workgroups and designers who need to deliver • Shorten design- experiments and gain new insights into high quality performance insights in a timely analysis iterations product performance. However, some fashion to drive smarter product decisions. companies are unable to realize the full Unlike disconnected, single-discipline CAE • Improve team potential of their simulation investments tools, NX CAE integrates best-in-class analysis productivity through because simulation continues to be modeling with simulation solutions for capture and re-use of disconnected from mainstream product structural, thermal, flow, motion, multiphysics CAE best practices development. The comprehensive set of NX and optimization into a single environment. • Evaluate design simulation tools enables you to integrate It also seamlessly integrates simulation data trade-offs performance simulation earlier in the management into an analyst’s workflow so that across multiple development process so you can investigate information is no longer lost within some disciplines more design options and make smarter obscure hard drive. Finally, NX CAE enables • Validate and track product decisions. simulation-driven design by giving companies the ability to expand simulation to the design performance against product requirements community and increase collaboration between analysts and designers.

8 “ We can take our 3D model, basically use that exact same 3D model, just click a button on the NX screen and we’re in stress and strain analysis. Click another button and we’re in a deflec- tion analysis. Click another button and we’re running flow simulations. So being able to integrate all those different analysis tools right into our 3D modeling software has benefited us greatly as well.”

Jeff Albertsen Design Engineer Adams Golf

Best-in-class analysis modeling Multidiscipline simulation Advantages NX CAE drastically reduces the time and optimization • Defeature and prepare engineers spend preparing simulation models. NX CAE delivers breadth and depth of analysis geometry faster It delivers all the advanced meshing, boundary capabilities through a single, advanced • Quick, intuitive direct conditions and solver interfaces that are simulation environment. Simulation solutions geometry editing using needed to conduct high-end analysis. What available include structural, thermal, flow, synchronous technology makes NX CAE different from all other motion, optimization and multiphysics preprocessors is its superior geometry analyses. The benefit of integrating all these • Comprehensive automatic foundation, including synchronous technology, solutions is that engineering departments can and manual meshing which enables intuitive, direct geometry standardize their tools on a single platform, for 0D, 1D, 2D and 3D editing. Coupling that with an analysis model which lowers training costs and streamlines elements to design geometry associativity means that coupled and multiphysics analysis workflows. • Associate analysis model analysis models immediately update to the Since all the data is internal, there are no with design geometry latest design variant with little to no rework error-prone and time-consuming data for rapid updates required by the analyst. The tight integration of transfers between software tools. • Supports third-party a powerful geometry engine with robust NX CAE supports other well-known solvers solvers Abaqus, ANSYS, analysis modeling commands is the key to so you can still leverage existing simulation MSC Nastran and LS-Dyna reducing modeling time by up to 70 percent investments. • Simulation solutions compared to traditional finite element (FE) for structural, thermal, modeling tools. flow, motion, optimization and multiphysics analyses

9 “ Our analysts are very excited about being able to use synchronous technology to defeature models and get the geometry down to what they need to build a finite element model, a CFD model or a thermal model.”

Nathan Christensen Senior Manager, Engineering Tools & Analysis ATK

Advantages Systems-level modeling and simulation Simulation data and process management • Efficiently build and Engineers are continually seeking to better NX CAE seamlessly integrates with the manage FE assemblies understand product performance at the whole simulation process management module of through a unique, system level, and NX CAE delivers methods that Teamcenter. Simulation data management multilevel approach enable easier systems simulation. capabilities can be used out-of-the-box, and companies can implement a complete • Speed solution times NX CAE is unique in the way it manages large environment for managing CAE data, processes through parallel FE models. NX CAE uses a multi-level, and workflow as part of a wider product processing hierarchical structure, very similar to how a development environment. This reduces CAD assembly is managed, to efficiently build • Simulate mechatronic wasted time by promoting re-use of existing and manage large analysis model assemblies. systems designs and engineering knowledge. This allows engineers to rapidly build FE • Simulation data and pro- Simulation data management also assembly models simply by referencing and cess management synchronizes simulation with design and makes instancing separate FE components. • Out-of-the-box integra- simulation results readily accessible for data tion with Teamcenter For mechatronic systems, NX CAE can mining, visualization and reporting. co-simulate mechanical systems combined • Capture and automate NX Open, the common foundation for with control systems designed in Matlab/ repetitive simulation automation and programming in NX, can be Simulink. processes used to create and automate customized CAE processes to increase productivity.

10 Simulation-driven design CAE vision and heritage Advantages Simulation has proven to be a time- Our vision is to deliver engineering • Same scalable technology and cost-effective alternative to physical simulation solutions that drive product used by expert analysts testing – allowing more design options to be performance decisions across the complete and designers considered in shorter time frames. Today, product lifecycle. • Perform basic analysis companies are seeking to further expand the Siemens PLM Software executes on this within designer’s CAD use of simulation by bringing it forward even vision by building upon our simulation heritage environment earlier in the design process. However, the that spans 40 years and encompasses well challenge of implementing a simulation-based • Make smarter engineering known industry brands, such as Nastran for design strategy includes the absence of an decisions earlier finite element analysis and I-deas for integrated engineering environment and process that CAD and CAE. Siemens PLM Software can keep pace with the design team. continues to invest in advancing simulation NX CAE helps facilitate simulation-driven technology and today delivers NX CAE, design. Since NX CAE is based on the same a modern simulation environment. platform as NX CAD, simulation capabilities easily scale to a designer’s environment and expertise level, while still providing the same trusted simulation technology used by expert analysts.

11 NX for manufacturing

A single system for manufacturing Data and process management A scalable solution engineering Teamcenter provides data and From individual applications, such as NX provides a complete set of numerical process management for the NX CAM, NX can be expanded to establish a control (NC) programming capabilities applications. Each piece of information complete part manufacturing solution in a single CAM system as well as an is intelligently connected to form a that includes a connection to the shop integrated set of manufacturing manufacturing plan. floor systems and equipment. NX is used software applications. for manufacturing engineering in a wide This helps you to eliminate the need range of industries globally, from the These powerful applications facilitate for multiple databases, re-use proven smallest shops to the largest part modeling, tool design and methods, manage tooling and connect corporations. inspection programming – all based on the work package directly to the the proven, future-proof architecture shop floor. of NX. NX allows the use of a common 3D model from part design to production.

Advanced model editing, tool and Part model Tooling and Shop ﬂoor preparation ﬁxture design CAM DNC program validation CNC fixture design, part and inspection programming are all associative, enabling fast, easy changes.

Data and process management

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12 CAM

“ With NX, we are reducing our programming time by more than 50 percent.”

Rajiv Kapoor Managing Director Rasandik Engineering Industries India Ltd.

Advanced programming capabilities Postprocessing and simulation Advantages NX CAM provides a wide range of NX CAM has a tightly integrated post- • Take advantage of the latest functionality, from simple NC program- processing system. machine tool technologies ming to high-speed cutting and multi-axis and manufacturing processes The integrated G-code-driven simulation machining, enabling you to address many eliminates the need for separate simulation • Save up to 90 percent on pro- tasks using one system. packages. gramming time by automating Improve your productivity further with routine tasks application-specific programming, such as Ease of use • Get it right the first time on the volume-based milling used for faster For maximum productivity, you can work the shop floor by simulating programming of prismatic parts. on the system graphically. For example, and validating NC programs in selecting and moving the 3D model of the the context of the machine Programming automation tool to create a tool path is a fast and tool process With feature-based machining, program- intuitive way to drive the system. ming time can be reduced by as much as 90 percent. CAD for the NC programmer Rapidly prepare any part model for NC Wizards and templates streamline typical programming with the latest CAD programming processes. technology in NX.

13 Tooling and fixture design, quality inspection

Advantages Tooling and fixture design CMM inspection programming Tooling and fixture design NX Mold Design automates the entire process NX coordinate measuring machines (CMM) of designing the parting line and surfaces, core Inspection Programming streamlines the entire • Automate your tool and and cavity, and mold base directly from the inspection program development process. fixture design process part model. Check designs and evaluate design Use product and manufacturing information • Capture tooling design alternatives with the integrated mold flow (PMI) on the model (including GD&T and 3D knowledge and re-use simulation. proven designs annotation) to automatically generate NX Progressive Die Design includes expert programs. • Virtually prototype die-making capabilities that enable the Generate postprocessed output, including the functional operation of automation of the design process. tooling and fixtures DMIS standard and machine-specific formats. NX Stamping Die Design provides advanced With the integrated inspection analysis you capabilities for formability analysis, die CMM inspection programming can read back measured data for comparison planning, die face design and die structure and study. • Reduce CMM program- design. ming time by up to 80 NX Electrode Design incorporates numerous percent industry best practices into a step-by-step • Ensure all part require- approach that automates the design of ments are inspected electrodes. according to company standards Fixture design includes fully associative component design, assembly positioning and • Facilitate fast and mating, kinematic simulation and performance efficient design change validation capabilities. propagation across entire process

14 Tooling and fixture design, Connecting planning quality inspection to production

“ Due to the direct access to PLM information on the shop floor, our machines’ idle times are significantly reduced.”

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Shop Floor Connect for Teamcenter NX for Siemens Sinumerik controllers Shop Floor Connect (SFC) for Teamcenter NX CAM provides optimized output for is an add-on for Teamcenter. Sinumerik controllers. You can select a range of special Sinumerik functions or With SFC for Teamcenter you can access and cycle commands with the correct parameters view work package data on any browser- in order to maximize machine tool enabled device connected to the network. performance. This could include a wide range of manufacturing information, including shop The PostBuilder application that comes documentation, tool lists, setup sheets, with NX CAM includes advanced templates pictures and drawings. from which comprehensive postprocessors for Sinumerik controllers can be developed. Also, SFC for Teamcenter allows delivery of CNC program files from Teamcenter directly In some cases, advanced postprocessors into the machine controller with no local and simulation kits have been developed by data storage. working with the machine tool builders. More than just a traditional direct numerical control (DNC) system, the connection to the secure Teamcenter database avoids data duplication and manages revisions to make sure the correct manufacturing data is used on the shop floor.

15 About Siemens PLM Software Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Digital Factory Division, is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) and manufacturing operations management (MOM) software, systems and services with over 15 million licensed seats and more than 140,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Siemens PLM Software works collaboratively with its customers to provide industry software solutions that help companies everywhere achieve a sustainable competitive advantage by making real the innovations that matter. For more information on Siemens PLM Software products and services, visit www.siemens.com/plm.

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