Industrialize Additive Manufacturing

Industrialize Additive Manufacturing

The Digital Enterprise portfolio includes leading software and automation solutions, seamlessly integrated along the AM value chain. This holistic approach is unique in the scope of industrialization of AM.
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Podcast 'Talking Digital Industries'

Additive Manufacturing – 3D-printing the future of industry

Moderator Chris Brow talks to Dr. Karsten Heuser, VP of Additive Manufacturing Siemens Digital Industries. Together with two Siemens partners he shines a light on the history of 3D printing and explains the impact this technology has on industrial production. Looking into the future the experts illustrate how Additive Manufacturing could change the industry as a whole.

Get to know the world of Additive Manufacturing

Podcast 'Talking Digital Industries'
Highlights

Additive Manufacturing in industrial use

How to redesign products? How can you improve additive manufacturing? How do you transform research and development into the right business model? Learn more from our experts about an integrated design, data and process chain to accelerate the industrialization of Additive Manufacturing

Beyond now – Expert talk Additive Manufacturing with Mirko Ross (Industry 4.0 Expert) and Aritra Gosh (Head of New Business, Mercedes Benz)

The Additive Manufacturing Experience Center - Making Industrial AM Real

Interview Dr. Heuser, VP of AM at Siemens
The automated Additive Manufacturing Factory 4.0

More interesting videos and interviews

In a loose series of videos and interviews we show you further aspects and advantages of Additive Manufacturing:

  • Interview Dr. Heuser, VP of AM at Siemens
    Dr. Karsten Heuser VP of AM at Siemens, talks about the strategy of Siemens and collaborations in the field of Additive Manufacturing.
  • The automated Additive Manufacturing Factory 4.0
    Markus Obermeier presents how to reimagine products, rethink business and reinvent manufacturing! Learn more about an integrated design, data and process chain to speed up the industrialization of Additive Manufacturing.
The future is here

Reimagine products. Reinvent manufacturing. Rethink business: industrialize Additive Manufacturing

Use the digital twin to derive unique benefits from the Digital Enterprise Suite.

Reimagine products with the digital twin of the product

Additive Manufacturing gives you the freedom to create forms that would have been impossible using conventional manufacturing methods.

Reinvent manufacturing with the digital twin of the production and the performance

Additive Manufacturing optimizes the production process, setup, and configuration.

Rethink business

Additive Manufacturing enables flexible, fast, and efficient production. The process is perfect for custom production up to single-unit batches.
Comprehensive approach

Create a sustainable competitive edge

The value chain for Additive Manufacturing

 

Both machine and product manufacturers are in a transitional stage between prototype and low-volume production using individual machines on the one hand and fully industrialized series production on the other. Essential factors here are productivity, process stability, end-to-end data chains, speed, quality, and IT security.

Our Digital Enterprise Suite offers end-to-end solutions for Additive Manufacturing. Only a holistic approach, incorporating the entire value chain, will lead to sustainable competitiveness. Around the world, numerous AM machines are used for industrial applications. With 55 machines, Siemens is a frontrunner in both production and as a service provider.

The Digital Enterprise Suite from Siemens is based on:

  • Siemens Digital Industries Software solutions, including NX™, the integrated CAD/CAM/CAE solution
  • Simcenter™ solution portfolio, a robust simulation and testing program
  • Teamcenter®, the digital product lifecycle management system
  • SIMATIC IT and SIMATIC WinCC, two products from the Siemens Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) portfolio for production
  • MindSphere, the cloud-based, open IoT operating system

Close cooperation with mechanical engineers and users in all sectors

With Siemens we can rely on proven technical components and are well prepared to handle future requirements. This helps us to handle the challenges of digitalization.
Alfons Eiterer, Head of System Engineering of EOS GmbH
Product portfolio

Our software and automation products and services for the end-to-end process

Additive Manufacturing means a shorter time-to-market, more flexibility, better quality, and higher efficiency. We have the technology for your success.

Software solutions

The complete end-to-end solution NX for Additive Manufacturing makes a comprehensive process chain possible, even for complex printing processes. The result is high-quality, series-manufactured products using Additive Manufacturing machines.

Automation solutions for production

Automate and run manufacturing processes using customized Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) and Totally Integrated Automation (TIA).
Our SIMATIC, SINUMERIK, and SIMOTION automation systems address all the current processes:
- Powder bed fusion
- Binder jetting
- Material extrusion
- Directed energy deposition

Service and consulting

The Additive Manufacturing Consulting network consists of international experts and consultants. This continuously growing network, leverages the potential of Additive Manufacturing – in any environment.

The consulting kit covers all relevant AM topics – from business evaluation based on industry all the way through to user training.



Your benefits from Siemens Additive Manufacturing Consulting are:
- Speed
 through quick access to industrialized AM
- Flexibility
through a customer-centric consulting approach
- Efficiency
through the exchange of best practices with Siemens as AM user
- Quality
through the latest techniques

Download our brochure on Additive Manufacturing here.

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Additive Manufacturing Experience Center

Experience live the complete Siemens Additive Manufacturing portfolio including the seamless chain

Siemens offers an interactive Additive Manufacturing Experience Center (AMEC) in Erlangen (Germany) and its Digital Twin the Digital AMEC, where the integrated seamless Additive Manufacturing chain and the AM relevant products of SIEMENS are shown. The AM Experience Centers provides an excellent overview and insight into different industrial AM technologies and information about the challenging industrial requirements for AM-design, -simulation and -production. Our aim is to provide our customers an overview of the value-add of the seamless digital AM chain.
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Experience our software and automation products and services for the end-to-end process at our hands-on Additive Manufacturing Experience Center.
Interested in a real or digital visit?

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News & Events

New developments from the world of Additive Manufacturing

Additive Manufacturing is enjoying extremely dynamic development. We have compiled a few interesting new developments for you here.

Aus dem Drucker statt von der Werkbank (German only)

Der 3D-Druck als Produktionstechnik setzt sich in immer mehr Branchen durch. Siemens hilft mit Software und einem digitalen Ökosystem dabei, die Prozesse weiter zu verbessern.

Siemens connects healthcare providers and medical designers to produce components through additive manufacturing

Siemens opens its Additive Manufacturing Network to enable the efficient execution of design and printing requests by doctors, hospitals and suppliers of medical equipment in response to COVID-19 pandemic.

3d printing Nerd @formnext

For Industrial Additive Manufacturing, the Siemens Digital Enterprise Portforlio is extensive and provides a massive amount of powerful features for it's users. Let's take a deeper look at what it can do with simulations, and planning, and digital twins during the entire product life cycle.

Additive Manufacturing: its Disruptive Impact on Industrial Production

Insights of Karsten Heuser on Siemens’ Additive Manufacturing portfolio and future trends.

3D-PRINTED ACTIVE COOLANT DISTRIBUTOR IS READY FOR SERIES PRODUCTION

At the IAA 2019 in Frankfurt, the EDAG Group presents the 3D-printed active coolant distributor which was developed in cooperation with Siemens Digital Industries and installed for the first time in the "EDAG SCALEbat" battery housing.

HP and Siemens Deepen Additive Manufacturing Alliance to Advance Digital Manufacturing

HP and Siemens today announced an expansion of their strategic alliance to help customers transform their businesses with industrial additive manufacturing (AM). 

Siemens launches Additive Manufacturing Network to transform global manufacturing

Siemens announced the launch of Additive Manufacturing Network, a new online collaborative platform designed to bring on-demand design and engineering expertise, knowledge, digital tools, and production capacity for industrial 3D printing to the global manufacturing industry

Stories: Interview with Karsten Heuser

The fourth industrial revolution and the desire of many customers for new, individualized, high-quality products are creating brand-new opportunities for the manufacturing industry. In the face of ever-tougher competition, companies that produce with extreme flexibility efficiency – or that immediately seize on new business opportunities – will have the edge. How do they do it? One way is to take advantage of the numerous possibilities of 3D printing – as Siemens expert Karsten Heuser explains in an interview.

Siemens invests in new 3D-printing facility in UK

Siemens is to make a €30 million investment in a new, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility for Materials Solutions - A Siemens Business, its Additive Manufacturing, or 3D-printing specialist. The new building in Worcester, UK, set to open in September 2018 and will more than double the company's current footprint. The new factory will be fully powered by Siemens Digital Enterprise solutions, an end-to-end portfolio comprising software-based systems and automation components which cover every conceivable requirement arising along the industrial value chain.

Siemens and HP Partner to Advance 3D Printing for Product Development and Industrial Production

Building on a longstanding partnership, HP Inc. and Siemens are accelerating 3D printing for industrial production through the creation of a new HP-certified Additive Manufacturing (AM) software module from Siemens.

New Siemens Platform to Support Complete Vision for Global Additive Manufacturing Market

  Siemens and Materialise have integrated Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology from Materialise into NX™ software, streamlining the design to manufacturing process for the rapidly growing universe of products being produced using AM (a.k.a. 3D printing).

Siemens achieves breakthrough with gas turbine blades from the 3D printer

For the first time, gas turbine blades, made entirely using Additive Manufacturing, have been tested in a gas turbine under full load. 
References

References

HP and Siemens Deepen Additive Manufacturing Alliance

  • HP's new Multi Jet Fusion 5200 Series industrial 3D printing system integrated with Siemens' Digital Enterprise offering

  • Combination of Digital Twins for product, production, and performance with MindSphere to enable mid-volume serial plastic parts production

  • Companies collaborate to help automotive and industrial customers create high-quality 3D printed parts faster; enabling unique product designs, new applications, and digital factories

Stories: 3D printing for 3D printer
Hoedtke Metall- und Lasertechnik
Pinneberg
Germany

Hybrid processing for perfect surfaces

  • Innovative additive procedure and high-precision 5-axis  cutting enable entirely new component structures in final processed quality

  • SINUMERIK 840D sl controls the machine for hybrid multitasking

  • End-to-end design and programming solution, including post-processor and simulation for additive and subtractive processes available with NX

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Materials Solutions - A Siemens Business
Worcester
UK

Limitless flexibility, high level of industrial suitability

  • Efficient production of high-performance turbine blades

  • Designed using Siemens NX, and manufactured using Siemens automation technology

  • 75% less development time, temperature-resistant to 1,250°C, rotor stability to >1,600 km/h and 13,000 rpm.

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Siemens AG
Erlangen
Germany

Spare parts on demand

  • Armrests from the 3D printer not only offer major benefits in the supply of spare parts, but also excel in terms of design

  • The requirement with the COMBINO tram from Siemens was to incorporate an extra switch into the driver’s armrest compartment

  • The use of powder bed fusion (plastic) meant the integrated function could be achieved without additional cost

Siemens AG
Finspång
Sweden

Burner tips for gas turbines

  • Optimized metal and alloy components are created in exact accordance with the computer blueprint

  • For many years, powder bed fusion (metal) has been successfully used by Siemens in the energy area at Finspång, Sweden. This process takes over the repair of gas turbine burners – a revolution in the after-sales service field

  • In this specific case, the repair time was reduced by 90% and, as a result, the turbines were back to their network duties all that much faster

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Sumitomo Precision Products Co., Ltd.
Tokyo
Japan

Titanium hydraulic manifold - maximum availability for passenger aircrafts

  • Fulfilling most demanding requirements by Aerospace industry

  • Optimized performance that can only be manufactured using Additive Manufacturing

  • Accelerated technology validation delivered by expertized one-stop shop from Materials Solutions – A Siemens Business

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