SIEMENS INDUSTRY INC.'s presence at IMTS 2024, in booth 133249, will demonstrate the scope of its machine tool CNC portfolio and digitalization software technology, highlighted by the digital native Sinumerik One control platform for machining applications.
Also, Siemens will introduce North American manufacturers to its Machinum portfolio that brings together machine tool controls, digitalization software, and machine shop services to help optimize production processes and provide agility for quick adaptation to changing customer requirements and calculated uptime needs. Emphasizing “speed,” “agility,” and “endurance,” the developer maintains that Machinum will maximize productivity for the entire machining operation.
Speed, agility, endurance
For example, to emphasize speed, the Siemens adaptive feedrate control reduces cycle times while maintaining a stable machining process. This results from instantaneous and continuous analysis of the current cutting conditions on a machine tool in real time, automatically optimizing the feedrate.
Regarding agility, through strategic digitalization and software that seamlessly integrates the machine tool CNC systems and a shop’s internal communications, Machinum can significantly boost the agility of a machine shop or production department to accommodate changes in design, quantity output and even machining characteristics, based upon customer input and overall production and workflow landscape characteristics.
As for endurance, Machinum elevates maintenance capabilities with leading-edge machine monitoring that anticipates potential issues before they escalate. This reduces costs and downtime on machines due to unplanned maintenance, and this feature is especially useful for linked and sequential production lines.
Machinum also offers substantial benefits to machine builders, as Siemens integrated digital twin technology allows more streamlined off-machine programming and machining simulation in an office environment. This promotes faster prep time, more accurate design specs on the final machine, faster component acquisition near the build time and a reduction in costly downtime, due to last-minute design changes, as those are anticipated, simulated and resolved, all in a virtual world.
Machinum also represents the integration of existing Siemens digitalization software such as Create MyVirtual Machine, Run MyVirtual Machine, Adaptive Control and Monitoring (ACM), Analyze MyWorkpiece and Manage MyMachines.
Siemens also will its technologies for “Empowering the Digital Machine Shop”, displaying its digital threads from blueprint to finished part, digital twin to simulation, part production, as well as the total integration of these processes into the digital factory for job shops and production departments, all grounded in Siemens hardware automation and digitalization software.
eRod continues its path
Building off the eRod “electric buggy” Siemens unveiled at IMTS 2022, it will demonstrate the end-to-end production of the aluminum wheel rim and gear housing for EV on display. The wheel rim is made by five-axis and multi-technology machining (mill-turn, turn-mill) and the gear housing is manufactured through additive/subtractive machining processes. Each part’s development, including machining, will be defined as a digital manufacturing process. From Siemens NX CAM software, which draws from 3D models, data and processes to seamlessly connect planning and shopfloor operations, to the powerful Sinumerik One, the digital-native CNC that permits a digital twin of the machine tool and its full operation in production, Siemens has streamlined machine shop operations as well as automotive, aerospace, off-highway, medical part and other consumer durable production facilities worldwide.
Machine builder to machine operator
Aimed at developing a complete eco-system for the machine tool builder and end-user, the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio brings together the breadth of engineering and manufacturing to provide the optimum solution for customers of any size in any industry.
Digitalization will shorten the machine tool builder’s time-to-market through digital twin technology, where all machine design and operational kinematics are simulated prior to the machine being built. This development allows substantial savings for the builder and end-user alike — in design, building and commissioning, and during the startup and training phases of machine implementation.
With Sinumerik One, Siemens is accelerating the digital transformation of the machine tool industry. The new CNC control platform works with software to create the machine controller and the associated digital twin from a single engineering system, thus contributing to total integration of hardware and software.
Thanks to its seamless interaction between the virtual and real worlds, including high-performance PLC, drive and motor hardware, Sinumerik One is setting standards for productivity, performance and digitalization. It is the future-proof machine controller in the increasingly digital world of manufacturing.
With Create MyVirtual Machine and Run MyVirtual Machine, Sinumerik One is provided with software to create the universal concept of the digital twin, powerful hardware, and integrated IT security, making it a forward-looking CNC.
Using Siemens Mcenter the open and modular platform for shopfloors, end-users can seamlessly link all their machine tools and network with company’s IT landscape.
Finally, a fun highlight at this year’s show, Siemens will hold a golf putting contest and raffle two putters twice daily during IMTS 2024. The putter heads will be machined using Siemens CNC hardware automation and digitalization software and feature custom engraving.
Learn more at usa.siemens.com/imts