Manufacturing operations are driven by a set of imperatives that business is forcing companies to implement processes, technologies, and practices that not only will enable them to compete and profit, but in some cases survive. Companies must be able to innovate in terms of having a product that will succeed in the market place. Companies must have manufacturing operations that are flexible, agile, and able to launch a quality product on time and cost effectively, however, in terms of hitting the market window with the right product at the right time. Manufacturers, like Tier one suppliers and Automotive OEMs are looking for ways to move through their product launch cycles at much faster rates, and to deliver new models to a market that expects innovative products in timely manner and typically at reduced costs.
One of the emerging and evolving technologies that will enable companies to achieve the business imperative of timely and cost effective product launches is Digital Manufacturing. In the virtual 3D world created by the PLM technologies of solid model digital mockup, product authoring, and manufacturing process simulation, the final link to the actual production work environment is making the connection to machine control systems. It is one thing to simulate the robotic work cell, machine tool, conveyor line, clamping fixture, PLC, motors, drives, pneumatics and hydraulics systems; but quite another exercise to generate accurate information that is driving control systems capable for all of this production equipment. This merging of Digital Manufacturing with automation is exactly where tools such as Siemens PLM Software’s Tecnomatix robotics simulation are taking manufacturing in this final link to the factory floor.
The robotic simulation solution of Siemens PLM Software Tecnomatix represents a technology that will be essential to manufacturers across all discrete industries where the requirement for agile and flexible production systems is mandatory. This technology addresses to the need for virtual commissioning, one of the primary benefits and value propositions that the Automotive, as well as other discrete industries have recognized as indispensable to accelerating their product launches.
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