Our team of highly skilled and innovative engineers will continue to provide world class automation services, including the creation of custom turnkey robotic work cells and automation equipment, engineering contract services and PLM Software products.

If you are a manufacturing company looking to improve your efficiency and increase your productivity in order to maintain your edge in today’s competitive market, please contact us so we can work with you to find the best solution to fit your needs.

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In our Siemens NX Training video series, we present four key Siemens NX training videos including:

• Introduction to 3D Scan data using Siemens NX
• Siemens NX CAD – NX Mach Advantage Package Demonstration
• 4D Systems webinar on 3D Printing – Using Siemens NX and 3D Scan Data
• 4D Systems – NX Additive Webinar

Siemens NX Training Video – Introduction to 3D Scan data using Siemens NX

In this video you will learn about working With 3D Scan Data.  Several key points include:

1. With the rapid influx of additive manufacturing (3D Printing) and rapid prototyping, there is now an increased need to take objects scanned in 3D and work with them within CAD Software.
2. Examples: (Medical Scans for custom fitted medical devices, Object replication, Rapid fixture design, Simulation and Testing)
3. Today we will be taking a scan of shoe inserts and modify them within NX to make them ready to be used for printing or further modification.
4. Step one is opening a new Modeling part.
5. Make sure the “Reverse Engineering” ribbon tab is displayed (right click on ribbon bar)
6. Import the file (mainly STL files), using the Import STL function, making sure the Facet Body Output Type is set to “NX”
7. The objects are brought in as a facet body.
8. We can see these objects need some cleanup. There are holes and rough patches in the top face and the bottom of the insert has a honeycomb design.
9. We will be using the convergent modeling tools within the Reverse Engineering ribbon tab to clean the model up before converting it to a NX object.
10. Snip regions of suspect geometry to remove areas of concern.
11. Move on to fill hole (options within fill hole include tangent, linear, curvature, etc.)
12. Snip all around edge to separate top surface from bottom.
13. Convert Geometry to convergent body (to be able to modify using NX feature tools)
14. Delete bottom geometry using part navigator
15. Make a base sheet/extrusion to project curves on.
16. Project edge curves of the inserts onto the sheet.
17. Use smooth curve to smooth the projected curves using settings of 20 degrees and 0.010 tolerances.
18. Extend sheet of edges (3in) to make a cutting plane.
19. Extrude the smoothed edges enough to cover entire body.
20. Use trim body to cut the extrusion by the insert surface.
21. Hide all unnecessary bodies.

Siemens NX CAD – NX Mach Advantage Package Demonstration

In this webinar we will be taking a look at some of the features in the different NX CAD Mach packages as well as showing a demo of the Annex Mach Advantage features.
4d systems is a premier provider of Siemens PLM and robotic simulation software our team of engineers bring together decades of experience in product life cycle management solution implementation simulation engineering and manufacturing.

NX Mach software products are prepackaged solutions delivering high performance cad capabilities of NX software the leading solution for mechanical design they offer competitively priced solutions tailored to specific product development roles practices and processes in four performance tiers value-added upgrades are available to move customers from one tier to the next each package delivers complete capabilities for production work.

If you’re in the mold or die business, these tools are really powerful to allow you have all that mold and die checking built into your tools as well as having all the feature and assembly modeling that Mach 3 offers.

Using Siemens NX and 3D Scan Data

This will be covering 3d printing aspects of NX. We are looking at the parts that made out of the 3d scans of the shoe inserts.  We took a shoe insert and the top surface which we wanted to model and replaced the bottom surface with a nice flat surface that we’re going to be able to put right directly on our 3d printing bed so this will kind of highlight the abilities of taking a 3d scan going straight into a 3d print environment.

3D Printing Outline:

1. Welcome to 4D Systems Introduction to NX Video on 3D Printing
2. We will be taking an object we worked with in the previous video working with 3D Scan Data.
3. This object was shoe inserts we imported into NX, cleaned up, and added some standard modeling features.
4. We will now be starting the Additive Manufacturing application to prepare these objects for 3d printing.
5. In this application you can save your print surface and volume to ensure your design is manufacture able.
6. You can also add support material in this step.
7. Set the print volume to our printer. (TAZ 5 Height (z) = 9.8, Length (y) = 10.8, Width (x) = 11.4, OriginX = -5.7, OriginY = -5.4, OriginZ = 0)
8. We are going to import our part using the add component dialog.
9. The part is too large to fit on the print bed.
10. Go into the part
11. Scale body (0.02 Uniform)
12. Save as the part as a scaled model
13. Reimport the model.
14. Fix on print bed.
15. Export to STL
16. Need to use separate slicer software (Cura etc.)

4D Systems – NX Additive Webinar

Learn how Siemens NX’s Additive Manufacturing Technology can be used effectively to create 3D printed parts.  In this video, we will setup a build tray for a set of
gripper fingers on our training robot and actually execute and print it on a 3d printer.

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Siemens NX provides support for every stage of the product development process, including concept design, generative engineering, and manufacturing. The enhanced Synchronous Technology that Siemens NX delivers is instrumental in flexible assembly and component modeling. This technology also offers multi-CAD capability while streamlining digital simulations.

NX offers the broadest range of CAD/CAM/CAE applications in the industry. The software’s integrated process automation tools allow your company to record and reuse knowledge to develop best practices for optimal efficiency and profitability.

To implement Siemens NX into your operations, contact our team at 4D Systems today. As an authorized Siemens reseller partner, we can provide you with a custom Siemens NX solution that fits your project requirements.

What Is NX Used For?

Your manufacturing plan or design company can use Siemens NX for a wide range of applications:

Design and Styling

Siemens NX offers a comprehensive range of design features you can use to create digital twins of product prototypes, ensuring optimal aesthetics and functionality. The tooling and fixture design feature is an automated virtual solution for streamlining development processes. In addition to product prototypes, you can also use NX to design product packaging and electromechanical systems.

Mechanical Simulation

You can simulate a product design in a realistic virtual setting with the mechanical simulation feature. This feature saves valuable time and costs, as you don’t need to make multiple physical prototype adjustments.

Engineering Process Management

NX’s engineering process management functionality lets you consolidate your engineers’ operations and manufacturing systems within one digital environment. Using this tool, you can monitor progress, ensure seamless collaboration between teams, and coordinate the process’s architecture, ensuring optimal efficiency and cost savings.

Machining

The machining feature incorporates digital precision solutions, making optimal manufacturing efficiency possible. Using this solution, you can:

• Program CNC machine tools
• Operate 3D printers
• Carry out quality control
• Manage robotic cells

Automating these operational tasks will streamline machining while ensuring the optimal allocation of your company’s human resources.

Who Uses Siemens NX?

Ford Motor Company

The American multinational vehicle manufacturer, Ford Motor Company, uses Siemens NX with PMI, facilitating a multi-dimensional 3D annotation environment. Employing NX allows Ford to improve powertrain component manufacturing while reducing costs.

General Motors

General Motors uses a wide range of Siemens PLM Software solutions, including Siemens NX. The applications of this software in General Motors’s operations include computer-aided design, engineering analyses, and manufacturing.

Mazda

Mazda implements several Siemens PLM solutions into its research, design, and manufacturing processes. These integrated tools include Siemens NX for enterprise collaboration, streamlining Mazda’s operations across the product development process.

SpaceX

SpaceX designers use Siemens NX for the entire design of their rockets. After loading a virtual mock-up of the rocket, designers use this software to locate interferences. SpaceX shop floor technicians also use NX models to gain insights into the rocket’s inner mechanisms.

SpaceX designers use Siemens NX to ensure that their rocket designs are fully functional by simulating motion.

Raytheon

Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems deploys NX products across multiple programs. One of these programs is the simulation and validation of advanced high-energy laser systems. Using NX, engineers can evaluate these systems’ structural thermal and optimal performance.

Should I Learn CATIA or NX?

CATIA is a CAD application suite providing design, manufacturing, and engineering solutions. This software helps you navigate the complete design process, from conceptualization to manufacturing. CATIA’s functionalities make it a viable option for mechanical engineers, electrical designers, fluid and systems engineers, and builders.

Choosing between CATIA and NX can be challenging. This section looks at some of the most significant differences between the two applications.

CATIA is a relatively expensive subscription-based software with perpetual licensing. NX is more affordable with subscription-based licensing. CATIA is compatible with Unix and Windows operating systems, while NX offers Unix, Windows, and Mac compatibility.

NX has a modern but straightforward interface that is highly intuitive and easy to learn. CATIA’s interface is somewhat more challenging to navigate. Both NX and CATIA have free trials which you can use to determine which solution is best for your needs and capabilities.

Another significant difference between CATIA and NX is that the former offers collaboration by connecting with the 3D Experience platform. On the other hand, NX uses Teamcenter integration as a collaboration solution.

Siemens NX’s integration solutions for CAD and CAM are also superior to CATIA. If you want to use specific CAM functions using CATIA, you need to run third-party applications.

Thanks to its high-end surface modeling tools, CATIA is ideal for the automotive industry. This functionality in NX is not as effective. However, with Siemens NX, you get other high-value toolsets, including the software’s CAM.

Is NX Hard to Learn?

No, Siemens NX is one of the more straightforward product development solutions to learn, especially if you have a background in CAD software. The NX interface is easy to navigate, and most designers will find this software intuitive.

The availability of free online information also makes Siemens NX easy to learn. If you have difficulty with the software, you can reach out to one of our team members at 4D Systems to learn more about our Siemens NX training solutions.

Contact 4D Systems

At 4D Systems, we are a leading provider of Siemens PLM software, including NX. Our engineering team has extensive experience in product lifecycle management solutions, including design, engineering, and manufacturing.

Our objective is to provide you with a competitive edge in the market by outputting high-quality products faster while saving valuable time and money.

Do you want to implement a comprehensive digital product development solution into your operations? Our team at 4D Systems will provide you with a custom Siemens NX solution that fits all your project requirements. Please contact us today at (800) 380-9165 or by email at [email protected].

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As production companies face increasing costs and time constraints, logistics optimization ensures long-term sustainability and profitability. By formulating real-world decision criteria for the evaluation and comparison of alternative production approaches, companies can:

• Improve delivery times
• Implement lean production principles into production lines
• Design and build production facilities that are sustainable over the long run
• Manage global manufacturing infrastructure and networks
• Optimize material flow resource

Tecnomatix Plant Simulation

Using plant simulation, companies can create digital twins of logistics systems. Then, users can use these digital twins to run experiments and gain insights into system characteristics without disrupting any existing systems.

By generating these digital models, local plants can optimize system characteristics before installation, minimizing production line investment costs while eliminating potential issues. Logistics system designers can also run these simulations to optimize existing systems’ energy efficiency and performance.

What Industries Use Plant Simulation?

Various industries implement plant simulations to simulate material flow and ensure sustainable industrial production and logistics processes. These industries include:

• Automotive manufacturing and automotive supply industries
• Aerospace sectors, including missiles, military aircraft, spacecraft, general aviation, and commercial airliners
• Plants for manufacturing industries, such as clothing, electrical equipment, and pharmaceuticals
• Mechanical engineering industries, including construction, metals, and materials
• Process industries where primary production is continuous or takes place on indistinguishable materials batches
• Consumer packaged goods industries
• Airports, harbors, container terminals, and shipyards
• Logistics industries, including transport, storage, and production
• Warehouse supply industries
• Automated guided vehicle system industry

Plant simulation software has a wide application range and allows companies across various industries to simulate a global manufacturing network, a manufacturing plant, or just one assembly line. Plant simulation is suitable for all levels of plant planning and helps users minimize production line costs while meeting output requirements.

What Are the Benefits of Using Plant Simulation Software?

How can plant simulation software benefit your company? Using plant simulation software, you can create a digital twin of your facility and each of its components, including machinery, manual workstations, conveyors, and storage points.

After creating a digital twin of your production process, you can use this simulation to learn more about its characteristics and output while identifying potential issues and suboptimality. Using a plant simulation tool, you can generate reports on every aspect and component of your production process, including:

• Output changes
• Uptime versus downtime
• Throughput
• Human resource utilization

Planning for physical production changes from global production facilities can be time-intensive and expensive. This process often involves shutting down the production line before disassembling, relocating, and reassembling machines.

However, when using plant simulation software, management can simulate the changes and calculate output and cost changes without disrupting the physical line. For example, if plant management considers implementing a new machine, they can virtually insert the machine into the line, then determine if the change has cost or production benefits.

What Is Siemens Tecnomatix Plant Simulation?

Siemens Process Simulate falls under the Tecnomatix groups of Assembly Planning and Validation and Robotics and Automation Planning. On the other hand, Siemens Plant Simulation falls under Design and Optimization, along with Factory Flow and Factory CAD.

Maximizes Manufacturing Performance

Tecnomatix Plant Simulation is a Siemens Digital Industries Software that allows you to render digital models or “digital twins” of manufacturing line systems to gain insights into their characteristics and determine the necessary steps to maximize their performance.

Creating digital models allows for the analysis of logistics, resource allocation, and material on all levels of the production process. Assembly teams can carry out a production simulation and conduct what-if analyses without shutting down existing production systems.

You can also use Plant Simulation during the planning phase before installing the existing production systems.

Optimizes Production System Analysis

Your organization can optimize manufacturing logistics, material handling, machine allocation, and manual labor with discrete event simulation and statistical analysis functions. This software also offers object-oriented stochastic tools and 3D modeling to enhance manufacturing efficiency and accuracy, along with general system performance and throughput.

Plant Simulation offers real-time information in the form of graphs, charts, reports, and genetic algorithms. You can also access experimentation tools to gauge production system behavior and make quick and informed decisions.

Streamlines Throughput

Plant Simulation offers a wide range of tools for streamlining throughput, including visual bottleneck detection, throughput analysis, Gantt charts, Sankey diagrams, and more. Using this tool, you can view machine utilization, output per unit, and other parameters at a glance, which allows for quick issue identification and process streamlining.

The digital models take all external and internal supply chains into account, along with your unique business processes and production resources, allowing for accurate and real-world analyses.

Provides In-Depth Energy Analysis

Tecnomatix Plant Simulation features an integrated and graphic energy analyzer that indicates the production system’s current, total, and maximum energy consumption levels. This feature includes an energy plotter, which dynamically indicates energy consumption throughout the simulation.

The energy plotter shows energy consumption during operation and scheduled breaks. Because this feature shows energy usage graphically, identifying opportunities for energy savings is easy.

Has Virtual Commission Capabilities

Plant management teams can link Tecnomatix Plant Simulation to real-world plant control, simulating an actual production process. This function allows for the testing and optimizing of the production system’s control, material pathways, automation, and engineering operation.

Teams can either connect a hardware programmable logic controller (PLC) or a software PLC from the real-world environment to analyze its performance. Plant Simulation’s commissioning solution is highly flexible and compatible with any programmable logic controller.

Contact 4D Systems

At 4D Systems, we are a leading provider of Siemens PLM software, including Siemens Tecnomatix solutions. Our engineering team has extensive experience in product lifecycle management solutions, including design, engineering, and manufacturing.

Our objective is to provide you with a competitive edge in the market by outputting high-quality products faster while saving valuable time and money.

Do you want to implement a comprehensive digital product development solution into your operations? Our team at 4D Systems will provide you with a custom Siemens Tecnomatix solution that fits all your project requirements. Please contact us today at (800) 380-9165 or by email at [email protected].

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To maintain a competitive advantage in the market, your organization needs to implement efficient and effective production and assembly lines. These processes need to be responsive to rapid changes while outputting products in the shortest possible time.

You also need to incorporate various asset optimization measures, adhere to quality and regulatory standards, and meet start-of-production and input-cost-per-unit targets.

To reach these objectives, manufacturing teams need to synchronize their production system and product development processes. The interactions between these processes must also be seamless.

Developing a competitive assembly process and optimizing the relationship between cost and throughput requires implementing assembly system design. Leveraging the expertise and availability of 3D manufacturing solutions allows your manufacturing engineering team to validate virtually the manufacturing processes’ efficiency in advance.

Thanks to the latest technological advancements and tools, such as Siemens Process Simulate, you can design and optimize the entire assembly system. This article takes an in-depth look at what Siemens Process Simulate is and how we at 4D Systems can leverage this tool to help your organization build safe and efficient assembly lines.

Tecnomatix: An Overview

A brief discussion on Tecnomatix might help you understand how Siemens Process Simulate relates to the digital factory environment.

Siemens Tecnomatix is a digital manufacturing and assembly solutions portfolio that links all manufacturing operations with product engineering. These solutions include assembly process design and layout, production process simulation, assembly verification, and manufacturing execution.

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is at the foundation of Siemens Tecnomatix. This tool provides unrestricted access to product and process information within a product’s entire life cycle framework, from conception to recycling.

The original bases of Product Lifecycle Management include:

• Computer-aided design (CAD)
• Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM)
• Product data management (PDM)

Siemens Tecnomatix is a component of the Siemens PLM platform and consists of the following:

• Part Planning and Validation: Machining Line Planner, Virtual Machine Tool, Part Manufacturing Planner, Press Line Simulation
• Assembly Planning and Validation: Process Simulate Assembly, Process Simulate Human, Process Planner, and Process Designer
• Robotics and Automation Planning: Process Simulate Robotics, Process Simulate Spot Weld, Robcad, Process Designer
• Plant Design and Optimization: Plant Simulation, Factory flow, Factory CAD
• Quality and Production Management: Dimensional Planning and Validation, CMM Inspection, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Variation Analysis, HIM/SCADA

The sub-models of Siemens Process Simulate fall under the Assembly Planning, Validation, Robotics, and Automation Planning groups of Tecnomatix. The sections below take an in-depth look at Siemens Process Simulate and the integrated environments and benefits of this software.

What Is Siemens Process Simulate?

Siemens Process Simulate is an assembly feasibility solution for manufacturing organizations. In other words, manufacturers use Siemens Process Simulate to ensure that the assembly of their products is viable over the long run.

Using this simulation tool, your manufacturing organization can evaluate and virtually validate its assembly systems upfront and in a 3D environment. This solution lets you plan your robotics placements, movements, and reachability to optimize the most complex manufacturing processes.

You can also validate your product’s design and manufacturing process by simulating the assembly process. Organizations can also use Process Simulate to eliminate complications resulting from assembly path collisions and inefficiencies, such as suboptimal operator ergonomics.

Process Simulate allows your manufacturing team to efficiently conduct hundreds, or even thousands, of validation experiments to formulate the most optimal assembly line setup. The manufacturing tool runs these experiments automatically, which means optimizing production is no longer a time-intensive endeavor.

Siemens Process Simulate can integrate fully with your organization’s manufacturing infrastructure, allowing the manufacturing team to create, validate, and re-implement manufacturing processes.

Process Simulate provides an advanced interface with a realistic 3D environment where manufacturing teams can simulate production processes and optimize the process sequence and cycle times. This manufacturing solution allows for the simulation of production functions, including assembly processes, mechanical tool procedures, human operations, robotics, and devices.

The scalability of the 3D environment lets teams derive data and toolsets from various manufacturing, engineering, and mechanical disciplines. Production process authors can use this assembly simulation for detailed process examination on multiple levels and verify them from different perspectives and phases.

Siemens Process Simulate: The Integrated Environments

Process Simulate is a multi-dimensional solution that allows your manufacturing organization to verify individual segments within the assembly process. The various segments you can simulate within one 3D environment include human operations, assembly processes, welding, and robotic processes. As a manufacturer, you can simulate continuous processes using Process Simulate, including gluing and laser welding.

The simulation makes accurate output predictions as it closely imitates realistic human behaviors, PLC logic, and robotic controller actions.

Process Simulate Assembly

Using Process Simulate Assembly, your team can simulate various assembly line possibilities then select the safest and most efficient assembly sequence with the shortest cycle time while ensuring no assembly path collisions.

With Process Simulate Assembly, you can select the correct tool for the assembly from the classified tool library then carry out collision analyses and virtual reach tests. Team members can also consolidate the product and tool processes and then simulate the entire assembly as a single system.

Process Simulate Human

Process Simulate Human is a workstation design verification tool focusing on the human component of the assembly line. Using Process Simulate Human, you ensure that workers can easily reach, assemble, and maintain product parts. Your manufacturing organizations should also use Process Simulate Human to assess and maximize the ergonomics of human activities within the assembly process.

The Tecnomatix human products let you optimize industrial tasks from the first phases of the engineering process. Assembly authors can use this product to create digital environments, complete with virtual people that match the organization’s human resources. These virtual humans are scalable and biomechanically and anthropometrically accurate.

After populating the virtual environment, you can test assembly designs for multiple human factors and parameters, including:

• Risk of injury
• Efficiency and timing
• Reachability and product part access
• Energy consumption
• Worker comfort and fatigue limits

After testing the digital environment and virtual workers for the above parameters, you can establish guidelines for more user-friendly designs throughout the engineering and assembly processes, improving quality while saving time and money.

Process Simulate Spot Weld

This Process Simulate sub-module lets you design, optimize, and validate spot welding processes within a 3D environment for all manufacturing stages. These phases include the initial planning, detailed engineering, and offline programming, for example, when developing a system for welding robot cells.

The spot-welding sub-module of Process Simulate supports a wide range of manufacturing engineering operations. These operations include, among others, the distribution of weld points to stations while adhering to cycle time constraints. Using Process Simulate Spot Weld, you can select the most suitable welding gun from the classified library or reselect existing welding guns or other tools.

Process Simulate Robotics

Manufacturers can design, simulate, and validate intricate robotics manufacturing zones using Process Simulate Robotics. Synchronizing multiple robotic zones can be complex without the right assembly optimization solutions. However, the process becomes significantly easier when using tools such as the emulated specific robot controller and cyclic event evaluator under Process Simulate Robotics.

The resources under this sub-model make it possible to design a collision-free path for all robots in the assembly line, optimizing their cycle times.

Process Simulate Commissioning

This virtual commissioning sub-model of Process Simulate allows designing and testing an existing facility’s virtual replicas or “digital twins.” You can create a 3D simulation of the facility and then connect it to a soft or physical PLC, an automation system. Creating and automating a digital copy of the facility makes it possible to test all aspects of production before the facility starts operating or before management teams implement changes.

The Benefits of Process Simulate

Leveraging Process Simulate for assembly process verification is beneficial for various reasons.

Reduces the Cost of Change

A lower cost of change is the most significant benefit of implementing Process Simulate. As the project’s life cycle progresses, making changes to the process becomes more challenging, impractical, and expensive. However, Process Simulate users can detect product issues early during the identification process and alert other team members, eliminating change costs during the definition phase.

Allows for Virtual Prototyping vs. Physical Prototyping

Process Simulate allows for upfront virtual product validation, reducing the required number of physical prototypes. The result is a streamlined product development strategy, a lower upfront prototyping investment, and a relatively short build-test-iterate cycle.

Optimizes Cycle Time

Optimizing cycle times through simulation allows for more flexible and efficient teams, faster delivery to support customer demand, and less work in progress (WIP). The assembly team’s workload also becomes more manageable, increasing efficiency.

Ensures Ergonomic Safety

Through virtual validation, assembly line creators can ensure that the products, assembly methods, and environment will suit workers’ personal capabilities and job requirements. Implementing ergonomics prevents worker discomfort, accidents, and injuries while increasing overall productivity.

Achieves Savings Through Standardization

Formulating new facility layouts and selecting new tools for every new assembly line can be costly and time-intensive. On the other hand, re-using standard tools and facilities for segments that assembly lines share can reduce costs significantly.

Mitigates Production Risks

Process Simulate allows for the simulation of thousands of manufacturing scenarios, and it automatically seeks out the ones with no bugs, collision paths, or other issues. Simulating these scenarios reduces the risk of encountering production issues after the validation process.

Enables Early Validation of Production Processes

Process Simulate allows for the early validation of all electrical and mechanical integrated production processes in the assembly line, including robotics and PLC. The upfront validation reduces the risk of robotics collision paths and suboptimal cycle times. The need for later-stage adjustments to synchronize the assembly process with integrated processes is also less likely.

Enhances Process Quality

Upfront process validation increases the degree to which manufacturing organizations implement an acceptable assembly process and quality standards. Ensuring the highest process quality is critical to managing resources, profitability, production risks, and product quality.

Process Simulate emulates realistic procedures throughout the assembly process life cycle, allowing users to maximize process quality.

Siemens Process Simulate Capabilities

Siemens Process Simulate offers multiple capabilities to enhance the safety and efficiency of your assembly lines:

3D Design and Assembly Simulation

Process Simulate offers a 3D process design tool that meets the JT visualization standard. You can create a 3D process design using this tool and virtually test it with real-world accuracy. Your team can also review the process, identify potential issues, and make changes within a single virtual environment.

Robotic Placement and Path Planning

This tool allows for extensive process testing to determine the optimal robotics placement for your assembly line.

3D Resource Model Creation

Using Process Simulate, you can create 3D process models, complete with integrated controls logic, and then share them with others or use them to develop the actual process.

Process Simulation

Process Simulate incorporates analog signaling and Boolean, allowing you to test your assembly process with intelligent software. With the process simulation tool, you can measure your process against a logic-driven solution to determine its efficiency and find out where you need to make improvements.

Actual PLC Code

The Process Simulate simulation uses hardware PLC instead of OPC protocol or software interface standard. The result is more accurate process verification at any stage of the life cycle.

Leveraging Siemens Process Simulate to Build Safer and More Effective Assembly Lines

If you want to optimize your production processes and build safer, more efficient assembly lines, Siemens Process Simulate is the ideal solution to incorporate into your operations.

At 4D Systems, we are a certified robotic integrator, and we offer various solutions for spot welding, sealing, cutting, thermal processing, and many other applications. As a manufacturing organization, partnering with us is the first step in establishing the ideal work cell for your production operations. We can also provide your team with Siemens Process Simulate training so that they can use the software for your organization’s operations.

We are a leading provider of Siemens PLM, including Siemens NX, Solid Edge, Teamcenter, and Tecnomatix. Our team has extensive experience in implementing Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, including manufacturing, engineering, and simulation.

Our robotic integrations and robotic work cell creation solutions are central in helping our clients gain a competitive edge in their markets. Give us at 4D Systems a call at (800) 380-9165, email us at [email protected] or complete our online form below to start the process of implementing Siemens PLM solutions, such as Process Simulate or Plant Simulation, into your assembly line.

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This is where the team at 4D Systems comes into the picture. As a mechanical design service company, we have the expertise, experience, and the highly skilled engineers to design, develop, build, test, and evaluate a system, process, or equipment. We can also design specific robotic work cells to automate current processes and systems with the focus on increasing productivity and efficiency.

Consider Experience

When hiring any mechanical design service company, experience, and expertise is a critical consideration. We are a certified integrator for Kawasaki, ABB, Siemens, Dassault, and FANUC. We have designed, developed, and deployed robotic systems for industries as diverse as oil and gas and the automotive industry.

4D Systems offers over 70 engineers working on projects throughout North America. Our team specializes in turn-key solutions for small to large businesses and in the development of customized solutions that are innovative and state-of-the-art.

Solutions to Innovate

Businesses using a mechanical design service company need something innovative and cutting edge. Our goal is to support our customers not only in their current need for controls, robotics, and simulations, but also in their future needs. Having the ability to look towards the future allows our engineers to design for long-term business plans, saving your company time and costs over the long term.

To find out more, call on the team at 4D Systems today at 800-380-9165

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As a turnkey solutions provider, we focus on assisting our customers in maximizing productivity, increasing efficiency, and decreasing the cost of processing and operations through automation. Each of our customers is unique, not only in their needs for automation and robotics but also in their short and long-term business goals.

Customer Focused Design and Development

Using us as your turnkey solutions provider means the system we design and develop is ready to deploy and use immediately within your business. Our team of engineers and technicians ensures the systems we build, including simulations, controls, and robotic work cells are designed to work with your existing infrastructure.

Fully tested at our facility, these automation and control systems are unique to your process and your current and future production and efficiency requirements. Our teams install these systems in your plant or facility and ensure they meet and exceed your expectations.

Being a turnkey solutions provider means listening closely to our customers and creating innovative solutions to the challenges they are experiencing. Through the use of automation and robotics, industries from oil and gas through to automotive production increase productivity, decrease production costs, and find ways to become competitive in our increasingly global economy.

To find out more about 4D Systems solutions, call us at 800-380-9165.

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Siemens NX improves productivity in all stages of product development by using enhanced synchronous Technology. This enables NX to deliver faster, improve multi-CAD capability, model more flexible parts and assembly, streamline digital simulation, and manufacture more efficiently.

NX utilizes new visuals for leveraging your product data and accelerates your development at a low cost.

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Team Center

Team Center uses a comprehensive portfolio of end-to-end PLM solutions to optimize business processes throughout the product lifecycle.

Team Center is the world’s most widely used product lifecycle management PLM software because it powers innovation and improves productivity more than any other software out there.

Team Centre can help you to:

•  Increase your productivity
• Speed up your time-to-market process — so you sell at the right time
• Optimize operational resources of your business
• Facilitate global collaboration between your business and others

What sets Team Center apart from any other product management (PLM) software is that in no time, you’ll notice a dramatic improvement in your company’s success, control, teamwork, and productivity.

Team Center has the best solution for you; the best practices and standards-based processes for fast deployment and a quick return on your PLM investment.

Whether your goal is to get more product innovation, faster time-to-market, regulatory compliance, resource optimization, or global collaboration, team center provides an ultimate solution that enables your company to meet today’s critical business challenges.

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MANUFACTURING PROCESS MANAGEMENT

A simple way to maximize your productivity and minimize your investment at the same time.

Planning Productivity

This helps increase the productivity of manufacturing planning processes by up to 40%. Tecnomatix uses integrated planning solutions that supply instant access to the latest product data. These solutions support capture, standardization, and re-use of qualified manufacturing best practices.

Additionally, Tecnomatix solutions help you validate planning results and automate all time-consuming planning tasks more efficiently. These solutions enable you to maintain ultimate planning, even if you have shorter development cycles.

Manufacturing Productivity

Tecnomatix 9 uses extensive simulation and validation tools, which enables you to easily optimize the manufacturing lines and planning stages before the products are physically built.

Tecnomatix 9 helps you to drive manufacturing productivity in many areas, which includes:

• optimization and commissioning of robotics and automation
• manual workplace configuration that helps you achieve output and safety objectives
• optimal placement of your equipment and material flow.

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Learn how to gain an edge over your competitors with breakout sessions focused on aerospace and defense, automotive, electronics and semiconductors, CAM to part manufacturing, and the machinery industry.

Interested in attending? Be sure to book your hotel room by January 15^th. The deadline for completing Conference Registration is January 29, 2016. Have questions? Check out the FAQs section on the Siemens website.

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Registration is now open for this year’s annual event taking place October 26^th to the 28^th in Cincinnati, Ohio. Whether you’re a new or experienced Solid Edge user, Siemens’ Solid Edge University can help you improve your productivity and expand your skills. As an attendee you’ll have access to other Solid Edge users from around the world, as well as the opportunity to meet with the VP of Development for Mainstream Engineering and the Solid Edge development and support teams.

Session topics include the following:

• Solid Edge ST8 Overview
• Part and Sheet Metal Modeling
• Assembly Design
• Synchronous and Ordered Modeling
• Importing Models for Editing
• Drafting
• Solid Edge Simulation
• Solid Edge Manufacturing
• Data Management
• Productivity Tips and Tricks
• Customer Successes

You can get even more out of your experience by becoming a session presenter. If you are experienced with Solid Edge this is an excellent opportunity to share your unique perspectives and knowledge with the community. You can submit an abstract of your presentation today by clicking here.

Siemens encourages companies with software applications that complement Solid Edge to sponsor the event and benefit from rigorous marketing campaigns executed by both Siemens PLM Software and their global network. For more information about sponsorship opportunities, please click here.

Interested attendees can participate in optional workshops offered in advance of the main event. Developer Day will teach you how to increase your productivity by creating your own Solid Edge Apps. At the Design Management Workshop you can learn about the data management capabilities of Solid Edge SP and see examples of best practice implementations.

Are you planning to attend Solid Edge University 2015? Leave a comment below.

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