Siemens software integrates manufacturing planning with production
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Siemens has introduced software that integrates manufacturing planning with the shop floor machining operations associated with producing parts.
The software is designed to maximise productivity by tightly linking Teamcenter software from Siemens PLM Software with Motion Control Information System (MCIS) from Siemens Motion Control Systems, to ensure digital planning data is accurately and efficiently delivered to the precise point of manufacturing.
Manufacturing companies need to ensure that there is an effective connection between manufacturing engineering and shop floor production in order to avoid common errors that lead to production delays, excessive scrap and redundant resources.
If data is inaccurately transferred from one system to another or if the data is sent to the wrong location, it can have a significant impact on schedules, costs and product quality.
This can be especially common in environments that produce many different products with small production runs and flexible machine tool assignments, or where modifications to the part design and its related machining program are common, creating multiple changes that need to be tracked, coordinated and delivered to the right place at the right time.
Creating the wrong version of a part wastes expensive time and material, while the lack of complete information about the availability and location of specific tool assemblies forces an inefficient use of tooling resources.
This announcement unites the manufacturing process management module of Teamcenter with two MCIS solution components: Direct Numerical Control (DNC) and Tool Data Information (TDI).
The software allows companies to manage the process of delivering the correct manufacturing data - such as NC part programs created by computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software, or tool availability information - from a central information management and planning environment to the proper physical manufacturing location on the shop floor.
The Teamcenter to MCIS interface is available immediately from Siemens PLM Software.
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