turing Intelligence,” at SME’s Big M conference in Detroit, Helmuth Ludwig, CEO of Siemens Industry Sector USA, stated that software is the key to manu- facturing’s growth. Roughly 10 years ago, manage- ment at Siemens surveyed what was most needed in
“As Deming and Juran both emphasized, you cannot test your way to perfect parts,
your system must be controlled to make perfect parts.”
manufacturing. “The next best value is combining manufacturing with design,” Ludwig said, noting that Siemens invested $3.5 billion when it acquired the former UGS (now Siemens PLM Software). “If you think about what’s driving US innovation, it’s all soft- ware-driven,” Ludwig stated, pointing to 79% growth in Siemens’ software business. “There’s something incredibly deep here in the US about software.”
CAD/CAM
When looking at manufacturing software, begin with new solutions in CAD/CAM, where everything gets started. A good designer can create clever new product designs that are not only innovative, but more easily manufactured using the state-of-the-art CAD/CAM tools. A relatively recent CAD/CAM devel- opment is the rise of easy-to-use 3D design modelers integrated with CAM tools in the same package, such as the HSMWorks and the cloud-based CAM 360 introduced in late 2013 and early this year, respec- tively, by CAD giant Autodesk Inc. (San Rafael, CA), developer of the ubiquitous AutoCAD.
The new GibbsCAM UKM offers users a new way of leveraging machine tool kinematics for more realistic renderings in machine simulations, and better, lower-cost postprocessors.
Image courtesy Gibbs and Associates SS2
MfgEngMedia.com
Integrated CAM systems have always been highly popular with job shops, said Anthony Graves, CAM product manager, Autodesk Inc. (San Rafael, CA), and now less-expensive integrated CAM packages are more capable of competing with major developers’ stand-alone CAM systems. “The single biggest shift in CAM has been a move to integrated CAM for main- stream desktop users,” said Graves. With integrated CAM, designers and engineers can become more involved in the manufacturing process. “We needed to understand how we design better
products,” Graves said, “and part of that is under- standing how products are made.” With integrated solutions, the walls between the designers and manu- facturers increasingly are coming down, offering users a transparent workfl ow where they can’t tell where the CAD tools end and the CAM tools begin. CAD/CAM is a highly fragmented, mature market
that’s dominated by a few large companies includ- ing Dassault Systèmes (Paris), Siemens PLM Software
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