Siemens PLM 将制造管理提升到新的高度

转自：http://www.managingautomation.com/maonline/exclusive/read/Siemens_PLM_Moves_Manufacturing_Management_to_New_Level_27755709

 

Siemens PLM Software recently rolled out Tecnomatix 9, a digital manufacturing suite that includes new features to enhance process planning, increase production efficiency, and enable robotics simulation and virtual commissioning.

 

 

Leveraging Teamcenter, the company’s PLM backbone, Tecnomatix 9 supports concepts such as the reuse of best practices and standardization, automating planning tasks, connecting planning and processing, as well as managing complexity through tools that enable change management, for example.

 

 

In production, Tecnomatix 9 manages workflow between engineering bill of materials (eBOM) and manufacturing bill of materials (mBOM), showing color-coded comparisons of where parts have changed to quickly verify the effects on the process. A time management module estimates execution of assembly operations, measuring all processes to calculate cost. And, the Dimensional Planning and Validation feature collects as-built information from the shop floor, managing it in Teamcenter, in order to run root cause analysis to define good processes for quality purposes.

 

 

Production is also enhanced through simulation and virtual commissioning . A robotic automatic path planning function significantly reduces offline programming of robots. In addition, the Tecnomatix virtual commissioning capability allows for testing real PLC controller programs against virtual manufacturing lines, which can lead to a dramatic reduction in commissioning time on the shop floor. Furthermore, standard libraries of intelligent components significantly reduce the time and effort spent on virtual commissioning projects by eliminating the time necessary to manually create logic definitions from scratch, the company said.

 

 

In addition, automated planning tasks — a key productivity enhancer — includes a function that allows for the rapid creation and exploration of alternate product assembly/disassembly sequencing in order to optimize this planning task and save time in creating assembly documentation. Another automated planning task uses a high-level task description to manipulate the human model component of Tecnomatix in 3D virtual environments. This enables the evaluation of various what-if scenarios involving the simulation of humans in a manufacturing or maintenance environment.

 

 

“With the Tecnomatix solution, we have succeeded in introducing a fully integrated planning system into our company,” said Roland Weisser, plant manager, ebm-papst St. Georgen GmbH & Co. KG, in a statement. “From design and planning to the after-sales stage, we are able to map the entire production lifecycle. The planning data can be reused at any time and the production planners can access existing documentation for the same process and the same machine or system.”