Real-life Stories

Creative production optimization by intelligently combining CNC machining, additive production techniques and know-how transfer at toolcraft.

How quickly can I switch over to Sinumerik? Is Sinumerik the suitable CNC for toolmaking? What functions can Sinumerik offer when it comes to workshop programming for universal milling centers? What perspectives do I have with Sinumerik? These were precisely the questions that Paul Epner was confronted with when he started his new job as production head.

The purpose of a retrofit is to renew without sacrificing the tried and tested. The leap to the very latest technology is not a matter of course - but it is often possible and makes sense! This is shown by the retrofit of an 18-year-old Index 2000 by RSV Service GmbH.

How can I establish CNC job planning and leverage the expertise of personnel without having to invest in training? How can I flexibly deploy my personnel – both on the shopfloor and in job planning? At the CNC and offline at the PC? Philipp Lutz posed these questions, and in SinuTrain found a sustainable and substantive response. 

Sinumerik One – the "digital native" CNC merges the real and virtual worlds. Here you can find innovative tools for CNC projects that are to be implemented with as little digital overhead as possible – at your own pace and in-line with your particular focus. Soraluce the machine tool builder and ABUS Kransysteme its customer have both already reaped some of the benefits.

The Siemens motor plant in Bad Neustadt has equipped a milling center with CNC-controlled robots and edge computing. The highlight: A digital twin of the robot for commissioning and work preparation – even teach-in of new workpieces is possible in the virtual world. 

Together with Siemens, Mazak has adapted Sinumerik for some of its series and will continue to supplement its machine tool portfolio. After all, control systems and machine tools are a perfect match — as contract manufacturer Pausewang from Gingen an der Fils in Germany agrees.

Dedicated NC programmer makes full use of onboard CNC resources and boosts productivity of component manufacturing

With two new large portal milling machines, Sinumerik CNCs have also been introduced into press tool production at Concad GmbH. The result: clear competitive advantages through services, technologies and smart IT connection via edge computing. Operation, process reliability and dimensional accuracy are inspiring - and the simply excellent quality of the surfaces, which reflect all the colors of the rainbow even without post-processing, saves a lot of time!  

The end customer already received the digital twin for two new SINUMERIK ONE-controlled MAKA PM270 gantry-type machining centers while the machines were being built. This means the NC programs including collision test could be loaded and the operator training completed even before the machines were being delivered. As a result, production could start much sooner. 

The machine manufacturer Reichenbacher Hamuel has designed a new machine series specifically to meet the needs of customers from the midrange sector. A comprehensive automation solution based on SINUMERIK MC allows flexible selection of drives, custom user interfaces and individual operating concepts.

With the quality, precision and efficiency from high-performance motorsport from a team specialist to an open-market supplier of individual 5-axis CNC machining

Metallberarbeitung Kamusin GmbH is countering the shortage of personnel in its region with a clever control strategy: With the gradual switch to machines controlled by Sinumerik, the family-owned company is developing from a volume-dependent series manufacturer to a sought-after partner for flexible one-off production for small series, in sample and prototype construction.

Maucher uses CNC-controlled standard robots for precise gluing, burring, water-jet cutting, deburring, riveting and other processing steps in its own production - and is therefore very successful. Maucher is now offering the clever machining cells with CNC-controlled robots to third parties - as individualized machining centers on the basis of standardized manufacturing cells, which do not require a foundation and fit on a truck completely pre-assembled ...

The family-run company Honeycutt Manufacturing is investing in a highly productive machine, inspiring its customers with the new abilities - and thanks to new orders and significantly improved cost structures, the company can order the next machine after only one month.   

Tietjen manufactures 48 types of hammer mills that have been individually optimized for each specific application – from high-speed mills and big chamber mills to wide chamber mills.

When you fill up your car with fuel, you probably never think about how the crude oil finds its way from the oil platform to the gas station. If you did, you’d see that it is quite an exciting topic as our report on Voith shows.

Siemens Tübingen is continuously optimizing the productivity of its SIMOGEAR geared motor production by simulating machines and plants.   

What should you do if a new machine is delivered during this Corona pandemic and on-site training is required? Here, you can read how this functioned in practice with the Kamusin company.

By manufacturing classic record players for high-end analog music pleasure, Wirth Tonmaschinenbau has been fighting against increasing digitalization in music since 1996. The company uses CNC turning and milling machines with Sinumerik 808D Advanced control systems to produce their high-quality devices.

Ulrich Teuffel’s striking guitars are in demand all over the world, as both musical instruments and beautiful works of art. The guitar designer makes virtually all parts using a CNC milling machine and the SINUMERIK 840D sl.

Sinumerik CNCs control robots and machine tools - simultaneously. An example from Bad Neustadt.

Two motorbike enthusiasts from Bavaria, Manfred Sehr of SWS CNC Fräsen and Michael Behrendt of HMB-Guzzi, ensure that bike lovers can still ride older Moto Guzzi models, with their distinctive two-valve engines, to this day.

Guilloche is a rare and disappearing craft in which surfaces are enhanced with special decoration. Professional support enabled Florentin Mack, a watchmaker from Ulm, to make his dream of owning a guilloche machine come true: The Digital Expierence and Application Center Erlangen manufactured the missing spare parts.

Easy to play - great sound: Six generations ago, company founder C. F. Martin Sr. was confronted with managing a guitar-making enterprise that was producing totally handcrafted guitars, one by one, with little means for standardization. Since those days, guitar legends such as Gene Autry, Eric Clapton, John Mayer and new comers Ed Sheeran and Hunter Hayes have relied on the consistently distinctive tone, treble and bass specific to Martin acoustic guitars. When Martin learned that its previous machine tool builder had exited the market, the company turned to Fryer Machine Systems for new machines to cover a production increase and seized the opportunity to upgrade the control technology with SINUMERIK CNCs.

Process chain in pump construction: Prototypes are created parallel to the design, whose tests are immediately incorporated into the design.

BE Technologie GmbH, manufacture tools with complex free-form surfaces for the automotive industry, such as rear parts for sunroofs or various mechanical parts, for example.

Two independent companies in one building: FTM Neresheim and EYPro are working closely together to offer their customers optimum solutions. In a joint project for the guild of chimney sweeps, the two companies have developed a test bench for calibrating measuring devices for the measurement of particulate matter in heating systems.

Südzucker AG’s sugar production at its site in Rain am Lech, Germany, runs at full speed five months of the year. The other seven months of the year are used for maintenance of equipment in the sugar factory. Several of the maintenance measures employ control technology from Siemens.