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 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…

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…

Digital Machine Shop Series: Blog #5 Tool management and set up

Let’s talk about tool management and tool planning on the shop floor.

In tool management, we have two different worlds.  We have the planning side in the CAM room.  In the planni…

Digital Machine Shop Series: Blog #4 Process planning with a digital twin

Some people call the process planning department, the CAM room, but we are not talking about computer-aided design only. CAM is a very important component but not the whole thing.  If you want t…

Digital Machine Shop Series: Blog #3 – Tool design with new technologies

In this blog I’ll tell you about Siemens’ Mold Design software which enables an automated process in which the application helps us to redesign the set-up for the mold.

To see the example,…

Digital Machine Shop Series: Blog #2 – The importance of new technologies

I would like to share more with you about our concept of the digital machine shop.  We all talk about a revolution in the machining space.  We talk about Industry 4.0 – the future of manufa…

Siemens’ Digital Machine Shop blog and video series

Our Digital Machine Shop blog and video series will take a deep dive into the specific steps you can take to digitalize manufacturing and transform business performance.

What is a digital …

Integrated CAD/CAM software speeds up the creation of production data

Why do so many manufacturers turn to Siemens integrated CAD/CAM software?  In a new success story about long-time customer, Heiwa Sangyo, you’ll learn why. 

Heiwa Sangyo Co….