Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 27.21
July 13, 2020
…a subsidiary of global logistics services provider DHL, and Siemens Healthineers, a medical technology company, and subsidiary of Siemens AG. DHL officials said that this collaboration will have a sharp emphasis on digital and robotics technology usage, in order for the Siemens Healthineers supply chain, specifically its U.S.-based Customer Service Material Logistics Unit, to provide continuous quality and cost improvements, which, in turn, are expected to result in strong delivery performance and customer satisfaction levels. A major component of this collaboration centers on what DHL called a new 260,000 square-foot state-of-the-art Memphis, Tenn.-based World Distribution Center (WDC), which will be…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 37.90
June 29, 2020
…autonomous motion planning for industrial robots, has partnered with Siemens Digital Industries Software division. Realtime’s technology will be integrated into Siemens' Tecnomatix Process Simulate, which the company says will simplify robot programming and workcell coordination by automating motion programming. Manufacturers and integrators will be able to program, simulate, and validate automation, which will simplify the digital commissioning process. According to the company, multi-robot workcells take prohibitive amounts of calendar and scarce engineering time in the simulation phase before going to production. Once deployed, they are inflexible, requiring significant re-programming for every modification. This has made multi-robot workcells cost-prohibitive for most…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 27.29
June 26, 2020
Siemens has coupled key pieces of its software and hardware technology to create a new solution designed to help manufacturers balance the need to ramp up production while maintaining employee safety as the economy opens back up in the wake of COVID-19 shutdowns. The solution pairs Siemens’ SIMATIC Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS) with its Xcelerator portfolio of engineering, operational, IT, IIoT, and cloud solutions to create a workplace distancing solution that helps minimize employee exposure risks while optimizing productivity. In what many are calling the “new normal” or “next normal,” companies are scrambling to figure out how to address…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.33
May 05, 2020
…of common CAD files (e.g., SolidWorks, CATIA, PTC Creo, Siemens NX, Inventor) and the latest 3MF file format, an improvement over traditional STL, OBJ and VRML files. Stratasys is also adding support for 3MF color workflow with KeyShot 3D rendering software from Luxion Inc., a capability now in beta and planned for late 2020. Built as a smaller but equally capable complement to the Stratasys J8 series for enterprise shops, the J55 supports the full design process with same-day send-to-print and minimal post-processing. It provides the same resolution and detail as J8-series 3D printers, with models matching the shape, material,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.49
April 15, 2020
…additive manufacturing.” In 2017, manufacturing and design software maker Siemens struck up a partnership with Materialise, an AM software developer. The goal is to integrate “AM technology from Materialise into Siemens’ NX software, streamlining the design-to-manufacturing process for the rapidly growing universe of products being produced using AM,” the press announcement stated. These mergers and alliances are indicators of design and manufacturing software jointly tackling AM challenges that each sector is unequipped to tackle on its own. Print Simulation is Complex CAD developers are generally not in the best position to write full-fledged AM software—particularly, print preparation software. Their coders…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.40
April 15, 2020
…vice president of the additive manufacturing software program for Siemens Digital Industries Software. “This high failure rate not only compromises the economic feasibility of additive, but it also thwarts efforts to employ the technology in high-volume production. This is particularly true of 3D metal printing,” he says. The market, however, may have a solution. A growing variety of modeling and simulation tools aim to give engineers and designers the means to analyze the behavior of a part under a range of build conditions and provide the insight required to make “first-time-right printings” a reality (Fig. 1). These tools provide an…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.19
April 10, 2020
…engineering software providers are also contributing resources. For example, Siemens has made its Additive Manufacturing (AM) Network (along with its 3D printers) available to the global medical community to speed design and production of medical components. The AM Network connects users, designers and 3D-print service providers to enable faster production of spare parts for machines like ventilators. Siemens’ designers and engineers are a part of the AM Network, and can answer design requests and help convert designs into printable files. Afterwards, these components can be printed via medically certified 3D printers of partner companies that are also part of the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 43.26
March 26, 2020
…crisis caused by the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, Siemens is making its Additive Manufacturing (AM) Network (along with its 3D printers) available to the global medical community to speed design and production of medical components. The AM Network connects users, designers and 3D-print service providers to enable faster production of spare parts for machines like ventilators. The Siemens AM network is available globally. According to the company, starting today doctors, hospitals and organizations in need of medical devices as well as designers and service providers with medically certified printing capacities can register for free access to the Siemens AM…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.26
March 01, 2020
…Inventor, PTC Pro/ENGINEER (later rebranded as PTC Creo), and Siemens NX and Solid Edge. In that sense, Onshape, launched in 2012, was a groundbreaker. It was architected from the start to run in the cloud, SaaS-style. The software was acquired by PTC in late 2019. “SaaS is very different from virtualization. With SaaS, you have a centralized multi-tenant network of computers that provides service to people,” says Jon Hirschtick, co-founder and CEO of Onshape. “As a result, you are not working in the inherently insecure Windows OS workstation environment; you are not copying and emailing files around; and you are…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 33.69
February 28, 2020
…produce parts for the German and UK rail industries, Siemens Mobility Services has continued its investment in Stratasys technology to support the expansion of its rail maintenance operations in Russia. This includes two new industrial-grade Stratasys Fortus 450mc 3D Printers for part production. The decision comes in line with a recent business win for Siemens Mobility to build 13 additional high-speed Velaro trains for Russian train company, RZD, including an agreement to maintain and service the trains for the next 30 years, according to Siemens. This is already the third Velaro order from RZD for Sapsan fleet due to availability…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.34
January 10, 2020
…step and hide the rest. A similar initiative at Siemens Digital Industries Software, makers of the NX CAD-CAM-CAE suite and Solid Edge CAD program, is also reshaping the CAD experience. In February 2019, the company revealed what it calls Adaptive UI for NX software users. Siemens Digital Industries Software introduced Adaptive UI, which can predict user commands. Image courtesy of Siemens. The outcome of machine learning and AI, “the adaptive UI will predict the commands that you will most likely want to use based upon the context of what you’re doing at the moment. It will put these recommended commands…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 36.04
January 10, 2020
Siemens Digital Industries Software announced a partnership with global semiconductor IP company Arm, that will bring IP, methodologies, processes and tools together to help automakers, integrators and suppliers collaborate, design and bring to market their next-generation platforms faster. This partnership was formed to address challenging issues to realize active-safety, advanced driver assistance, in-vehicle infotainment, digital cockpits, vehicle-to-vehicle/vehicle-to-infrastructure and self-driving vehicles. Key advances in computing and sensor technology are enabling companies to redefine mobility beginning with the integrated circuits and software within automotive electronics systems. The combination of Siemens’ and Arm’s technologies can help automakers and suppliers deliver electronic design and…
