Tecnomatix 11 – Manufacturing Process Management Smart, Fast, Lean Manufacturing with Tecnomatix 11

Answers for industry. What’s new for Tecnomatix 11 – Manufacturing Process Management Smart, fast, lean manufacturing with Tecnomatix 11

Benefits Summary processes are aligned with aggressive prod- • Increase planning efficiency You can implement Tecnomatix® digital uct launch goals. manufacturing solutions from Siemens PLM • Validate manufacturing As part of the Tecnomatix 11 release, these Software and leverage a single source of feasibility earlier manufacturing process management product and process information across solutions enable smart, fast, lean manufac- • Improve search and usability your enterprise, resulting in effective col- turing through capabilities for process laborative product and process • Reduce delays and improve planning and work instruction develop- development. operator safety ment. In addition, key enhancements in Manufacturing process management is an layout planning and dimensional variation • Reduce tooling design effort essential part of any PLM strategy. It analysis allow you to boost your manufac- • Communicate processes enables you to connect your product design turing process efficiency. more effectively activities to your manufacturing planning Process planning activities, ensuring that products are • Improve factory object Manufacturing Process Planner (MPP) designed for manufacturability. Key drivers creation enables you to initiate manufacturing feasi- that cause leading manufacturers to look bility while creating production plans from • Improve operator walk path for a comprehensive process management the earliest phase of design through manu- reporting solution include the complexity and chal- facturing handoff to production facilities by lenges of bringing products to market • Improve dimensional quality delivering work instructions directly to the faster while ensuring that manufacturing shop floor.

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What’s new for Tecnomatix 11 – Manufacturing Process Management

Features Store structure search criteria and results New, event-based data objects Manufacturing process Process planners can store and share search Further expansion of the Manufacturing planner queries for re-use with or without results Process Planner solution for the body-in- sets. This helps improve usability and main- white workflow allows you to manage • Store, re-use and share tain a consistent knowledge context for event-based objects within the bill-of-pro- structure queries re-use and collaboration with other plan- cess. These data objects store the logic • New out-of-the-box ning engineers. necessary for simulation and virtual com- perspectives missioning of manufacturing components such as robots, sensors, clamps and • Greater spatial search switches, within Process Simulate. control Copy object from graphics context • Usability enhancements This enhancement enables you to select • Multi-CAD weld data objects in the 3D graphics window through management a new context menu for copy/paste assign- ment of parts to assemblies. • Process context for NX tool builders Weld import enhancements Multi-CAD weld point import enables you Work instructions to define different weld representations • Standard text and 2D PDF according to weld type and targeted weld view improvements container, which does not affect other manufacturing feature groups within the • Rich text editing highlights Switch perspectives scope. An automated process helps create safety concerns New out-of-the-box perspectives help direct a revision of the weld container in case the • PLM to MES integration specific work tasks such as BOM reconcilia- manufacturing feature group was created tion, process constraints, consumption and or deleted. Advanced assembly planner line balancing. • Greater efficiency in Spatial search usability planning mixed-model, A new dialog box for spatial searches mixed-plant operations includes editing with sliders that provide • Perform early finer control of the bounding box. This manufacturing feasibility includes search configurations that provide- fully contained or cross-box intersection • Compare plant-to-plant results for richer search capabilities and processes improved usability. • Mixed-model line balancing • Weighted average and min/ Tool designs in NX max overlay You can now receive a scoped context of process information that enables you to see Factory products requirements in the context of the intended • Improved XML object dialog manufacturing process for performing tool builder design in NX™ software. • Enhanced object library management • Operator walk path time and distance export • Improved attribute support and logistics data exchange TECNOMATIX

Variation analysis the work package to the execution system, which translates and integrates all neces- • Expanded Sigma tolerance sary components to automatically create range the work plan. • Enhanced float operations Advanced assembly planning for assembly analysis The Advanced Assembly Planner is an add- • Hold tolerance to nominal on solution to the Manufacturing Process on selected parts Planner, which provides additional infra- structure and capabilities that support the • Enhanced linear and generation of global mixed-model, mixed- angular plus/minus support plant processes. It includes line balancing • Click measurement points capability that helps the process engineer to generate model features Work instructions understand and optimize global production strategies for mixed-model assembly lines. • Supports MIMIC (JT) file Electronic Work Instruction (EWI) enables structure web-based communication of all manufac- Enterprise bill of process turing process information from planning The latest enhancements to enterprise bill and simulation to the shop floor. of process help simplify the complexity of Improved text and visual elements global production so you can achieve the You can embed standard text elements in efficiencies of mixed-model manufacturing your PDF work instructions, formalizing the from platform-based architectures. You can propagation of standard text libraries. perform feasibility studies well before com- Improvements to 2D visual representations mitting investments and resources to help you enrich the interactive capabilities specific plants, automatically propagate with zoom to part, smooth transition and assembly items to plant-specific process linkage from parts in graphics to the parts/ structures and perform plant-to-plant com- tools table. parisons to maximize the spread of best practices. Line balancing The line balancing function helps you optimize mixed-model production lines by viewing each instance as a production pro- gram. These enhancements streamline the introduction of a new model or variant to a plant and provide visibility into the impact on the existing workload. This is accom- plished through a weighted average of PLM to MES integration for work plans operations and minimum/maximum over- The connection from Manufacturing lay, which gives the planner insight into Process Planner to Simatic MES assures potential problem areas. complex assembly operations are per- formed with the most up-to-date information. This integration enables work instruction details to be pulled from or sent to the shop floor. A new command button enables you to send details of the work package directly to the execution system. The software tracks success or failure and allows you to input build event parameters for compliance and traceability. You now have an automated process for delivering TECNOMATIX

Layout planning and management Generic attributes and logistics data In this release, FactoryCAD™, FactoryFLOW™ exchange and In Context Editor (ICE) all support You are now able to define default object Autocad 2014 and Teamcenter® 10.x soft- attributes from the settings dialog for each ware versions. object type. These user-defined attributes can be stored, maintained and readily syn- FactoryCAD sofware enables you to create chronized with other applications, such as detailed, intelligent factory models. Instead logistics databases that are used to of having to draw lines, arcs and circles, exchange data to and from FactoryFLOW. FactoryCAD enables you to work with “smart objects” that represent virtually all Dimensional quality of the resources used in a factory – from Variation Analysis is a Teamcenter visualiza- floor and overhead conveyors, mezzanines tion add-on that enables you to analyze the and cranes to material handling containers impact of manufacturing processes on and operators. design features and tolerances highlighting the sources and amount of dimensional XML object/dialog toolkit enhancements variation. It helps improve design quality These enhancements improve usability of and eliminate costly prototypes while the FactoryCAD core dialog toolkits and reducing labor, tooling and metrology costs enable you to more easily create dialogs for on the shop floor. your custom objects through drag and drop positioning of parameter input fields, multi- Enhanced Sigma tolerance range ple tab support, slider input for variables, You can now set Sigma tolerance range to integer increment/decrement input and include a 2 Sigma distribution (about 95 2D/3D view control on the preview window. percent) for simulation results. This enables a better understanding of less capable pro- Library manager enhancements cesses which may be valuable for These enhancements enable you to more simulating and analyzing different supplier easily store, manage and access custom capabilities for smarter cost/benefit deci- FactoryCAD XML objects. You can add mul- sions when outsourcing components. tiple libraries at once, perform library sequencing, preview all library content in Float distribution enhancements for as- the factory explorer and export all files sembly operations associated with a library. The extreme float operation provides a more conservative analysis by allowing the FactoryFLOW™ software enables industrial model to simulate random contact points engineers to optimize a factory layout against measurement operations versus based on material flow distances, fre- simply applying tolerance variation values. quency and cost. You can do this by You can apply this information globally to evaluating and analyzing part routing, the entire model or allow the override of material storage, material handling specifi- global parameters to specific assembly cations and part packaging against the operations. factory layout. Inactivate tolerances to improve trade- Operator walk path time and distance off analysis export You can essentially turn off the tolerance You can export FactoryFLOW calculated values for a part in an assembly during the operator walk times and distances, with simulation run. This improves your ability appropriate units, to a Microsoft Excel to validate trade-off decisions when report. You can separate and show multiple walking operations for each operator. TECNOMATIX

analyzing various designs or supplier com- Point creation enhancements ponents and aids in debugging a complex The 3D measurement module in model. For example if a particular part is Teamcenter visualization gives you an easy giving you erratic results, you can see how way to generate measurements from CAD much variation goes away if the part is held geometry. Now, with a simple click on a to nominal values. measurement point, you can use variation analysis to create a feature point for analysis in the simulation model.

Enhanced linear plus/minus support In addition to location tolerances, orientation and form tolerance attributes have Enhanced feature properties dialog been added to linear plus/minus attributes. The addition of navigation buttons to the This also enables GD&T orientation and feature properties dialog box improves nav- form refinements of linear plus/minus igation for faster feature creation and tolerances. modification of existing features within a part. Angular plus/minus Adding additional support for plus/minus Improved structure alignment schemas allows you to apply angular plus/ The CAD structure import process now sup- minus tolerance to a plane or hole/pin ports the MIMIC (JT™) file structure. Contact Siemens Industry Software feature. Dimensional Planning and Validation (DPV) Americas +1 314-264-8499 enables you to plan and synchronize Europe +44 (0) 1276 413200 inspection routines and production equip- Asia-Pacific +852 2230 3308 ment for synchronizing measurement www.siemens.com/plm operations and automating data collection, organization and reporting. © 2013 Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. Siemens Simplified bill of resource (bill of equip- and the Siemens logo are registered ment) and bill of process development trademarks of Siemens AG. D-Cubed, This enables you to use the Teamcenter cli- Femap, Geolus, GO PLM, I-deas, ent user interface to manage plant, device Insight, JT, NX, Parasolid, Solid Edge, and routine planning and setup for produc- Teamcenter, Tecnomatix and Velocity tion operations. It includes the ability to Series are trademarks or registered adjust shift times automatically based on a trademarks of Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. facility’s time zone. or its subsidiaries in the United States and in other countries. All other logos, trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks used herein are the property of their respective holders. Y6 33832 4/13 B