Process Simulate

Manufacturing process verification in powerful 3D environment

Benefits Summary • Reduce cost of change with Process Simulate is a digital manufacturing solution for manufacturing early detection and process verification in a 3D environment. Process Simulate is a major enabler communication of product of speed-to-market by allowing manufacturing organizations to virtually design issues validate manufacturing concepts upfront – throughout the lifecycle of new • Reduce number of physical product introductions. The ability to leverage 3D data of products and prototypes with upfront resources facilitates virtual validation, optimization and commissioning of virtual validation complex manufacturing processes, resulting in faster launch and higher • Optimize cycle times through production quality. simulation • Ensure ergonomically safe The business value of Process Simulate processes The increased complexity of products and manufacturing processes presents • Reduce cost by re-using world-class manufacturers with “time-to-market” and asset optimization standard tools and facilities challenges. Manufacturing engineering teams are expected to enable • Minimize productions risk by flawless new product launches and adhere to cost, quality and start-of- simulating several production targets. To meet these challenges, leading manufacturers manufacturing scenarios leverage their • Early validation of the organizational mechanical and electrical knowledge and the integrated production availability of 3D processes (PLC and robotics) models of products • Early validation of production and resources to commissioning in a virtual virtu­ally validate environment their manufacturing • Increase process quality by processes upfront. emulating realistic processes With new evolving throughout the process technology, lifecycle thousands of vali­ dation experiments Features can be conducted • 3D simulation efficiently and • Static and dynamic collision almost automat­ detection ically to ensure • 2D and 3D sections upfront production • 3D measurements optimization. • Sequencing of operations • Assembly and robotic path Process Simulate facilitates the design and vali­dation of manufac­turing planning processes in a 3D dynamic environment. Process Simulate is fully integrated

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Features continued with the manufacturing backbone, thus cycle time. Process Simulate Assembly • Resource modeling (3D and enabling manufacturing engineers to re- provides the capability to select the most kinematics) use, author and validate manufacturing suitable tool for the process by searching a • Line and workstations design processes. Process Simulate provides an classified tool library, performing virtual • Documentation tools advanced 3D environment capable of reach tests and collision analysis and • Natively supported JT™ emulating realistic behavior of manufac­ simulating the full assembly process of the visualization standard turing processes and optimization of cycle product and the tool together. • Human tasks simulation times and process sequence. Process - Reach envelopes Simulate facilitates simulation of assembly - Vision window processes, human operations and - Postures mechanical procedures of tools, devices - Auto grasp wizard and robots. Process Simulate is highly - Ergonomics analysis scalable, providing various engineering • Discrete and continuous disciplines with the data and toolset to process simulation examine detailed processes and verify - Projection of welds them in different phases and perspectives. on parts - Gun search wizard Integrated environment for - Project arc seam manufacturing process validation - Torch alignment Process Simulate enables the verification - Weld gun validation of different segments of the manufac­ - Design/modify weld gun turing process. Assembly processes, and tooling geometry human operations, welding, continuous Process Simulate Human and kinematics processes such as laser welding and gluing Process Simulate Human allows users to - Robot reach test and other robotic processes can be simu­ verify the design of a workstation, - Robot smart placement lated in the same environment, allowing ensuring the product parts can be reached, - Robotic simulation editing for simulation of virtual production zones. assembled and maintained. Process • Robotics process simulation The simulation emulates realistic human Simulate Human provides powerful - Event-driven simulation behavior, robotic controllers and PLC logic. capabilities to analyze and optimize the - Detailed robot ergonomics of the human operation, thus programming Process Simulate Assembly ensuring an ergonomically safe process - Controller-specific Process Simulate Assembly allows users to according to industry standards. Using the command recognition verify the feasibility of an assembly human simu­lation tools, the user can - Boolean and non-Boolean process. It enables manufacturing perform realistic simulation of the human signals exchange engineers to determine the most efficient tasks and optimize process cycle times - Robot logic editing and assembly sequence, catering for collision according to industry standard ergonomics validation clearance and identifying the shortest libraries. • Virtual commissioning - Model control resources (sensors and controlled devices) - Signal definition based on real HW - Simulate internal resource logic (Boolean and analog) - Connect virtual model with real PLC code - Integrated simulation using actual PLC code and HW over OPC interface TECNOMATIX

Process Simulate Spot Weld Process Simulate Robotics Process Simulate Commissioning Process Simulate Spot Weld enables users Process Simulate Robotics enables users to Process Simulate Commissioning enables to design and validate spot welding design and simulate highly complex users to streamline the existing processes in a 3D graphics and simulation robotics manufacturing zones. manufacturing and engineering data from environment from early planning phase up Synchronizing multi-robot zones – a highly conceptual design down to the shop floor. to detailed engineering stages and offline complicated task – is simplified with Process Simulate Commissioning supplies a programming. Process Simulate Spot Weld Process Simulate tools such as cyclic event common integration platform for the facilitates manufacturing engineering evaluator and emulated specific robot various disciplines participating in real tasks such as distribution of weld points to controller. The robotics simulation tools commissioning of a production zone/cell stations catering for geometric and cycle provide the capability of designing a (mechanical and electrical). Using Process time constraints and selection of best weld collision-free path for all the robots and Simulate Commissioning, users can gun from a classified library to re-use optimize their cycle times. simulate real PLC code with the actual existing guns and tools. hardware using OPC and the actual robot programs, thus enabling the most realistic virtual commissioning environment.

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