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Digital Machine Shop Series: Blog #9 CMM Inspection and Programming

In the next video, I will explain how a machine is programmed with our NX CMM tool. From my experience,  the quality department is somehow disconnected. This is a process to try afterward, to fi…

Siemens Wins International 3D Printing Industry Award

Siemens was recently honored for the worldwide first successful test of gas turbine blades manufactured with Additive Manufacturing (AM). The prize was handed over to Siemens representatives by Micha…

Digital Machine Shop Series: Blog #8 Additive Manufacturing

3D printing started over 20 years ago but it was limited to soft material and plastic material.  What has changed in the past few years is that printers are getting cheaper.  Now everybody …

Digital tool data primed for growth

Digital tool management systems, and the digital tool libraries that support them, are changing the way cutting tools, toolholders and workholding are assembled into tooling setups and used to machin…

Digital Machine Shop Series: Blog #7 The emergence of robots

Robots are getting cheaper and cheaper. Robots are not as accurate as a traditional machine tool but it has almost unlimited machining space. You can put a machine on a crane upside down, you can put…

The Digital Machine Shop video series

You can access all of Armin Gruenewald’s videos in the Digital Machine Shop blog series here.Let us know what you think in the comment section below.

Introducing the Digital Machine…

Digital Machine Shop Series: Blog #6 Access the digital twin from the shop floor

The digital twin is a concept about how to map the digital world with the physical world. If you remember on the CAM side, we didn’t want to go only for the CAM.  We need to add the whole simula…

A vision of Siemens Part Manufacturing Platform in action

Below you will find the transcript from the video.
In a factory somewhere.  A MindSphere Alert!  Anomaly on machine #17.  “We have a problem. Dispatch a technician to check machine #…

New Part Manufacturing Platform for additive manufacturing

For years Siemens has been talking about the industry game-changer, Additive Manufacturing (AM).  We’ve described how it’s changing the way products are made, enabling us to reimagine products a…