Anticipate, a strategic value in the simulation

Precisely in the initial presentation, Carmen López, Indirect Salts Siemens Industry Software, put special emphasis in the importance that has for Siemens the bet by the R&D: “in economic moments so hard like which are living, there is a concept, a word that, however, does not leave to sound: innovation”. Conscious of this, and of the needs each day more acuciantes of his customers, allocate 5% of the total turnover of the company, and says fast, precisely to the R&D: “this allows us develop new and better products. Our portafolio allows to our customers arrive until 50% before to the market”.

On the other hand, Carmen López put also the accent in two very important markets in the Spanish industry, and with which Siemens is in permanent collaboration: the automotive sector and the aeronautical sector component manufacturing sector component manufacturing sector. “Almost each new project of a car is done with technology Siemens. And the same occurs with the aeronautical sector component manufacturing sector component manufacturing”. What gives us an idea of the penetration that this company has in a so demanding market and competitive.

The new version of NX, developed from the work and the constant communication between Siemens and his customers, offers new solutions and tools for the design, the simulation and the manufacture. This in concrete bases in the structure of the technology PLM of high definition of Siemens to provide a greater visual information and analysis that improve the collaboration and the taking of decisions. That is to say, they allow to foresee and anticipate to the possible errors and, besides, decide with greater guarantees of what has between hands.

Of between the a lot of novelties that presents finds the called High Definition 3D (HD3D), including multiple extensions of the technologies PLM of high definition for the development of products. Besides, HD3D Visual Reporting of NX8 can create multidimensional reports that includes more than a property of report, what allows him assign a code of colour to the objects for a property and show visual labels for other properties. Besides, thanks to the concept ‘Modulate design', NX includes a function of modular design that simplifies the modelado and the edition of complex designs, allowing the work in parallel of several designers.

Modelado based in operations

A new navigator of operations offers a graphic sight very visual of these and his relations, what helps to comprise of way faster and intuitive the purpose of the design and the effects of the changes in him. NX8 adds besides the function of selection of objects from the browser of pieces. Especially in the case of complex pieces, with frequency is possible to select elements of form faster and simple from the browser of pieces that from the window of charts. On the other hand, this new version allows to create patterns with more options that include linear diagrams, poligonales, to the long, of reference, espirales circular or general options.

NX8 incorporates again the synchronous technology that allows that any change realised arrive immediately to the department of design so that it can continue with the work without unnecessary stops. With ‘Synchronous modeling' NX8 includes functions improved that increase the flexibility of modelado and allow the evaluation of more alternatives of design in less time.

Design of sheet

Also has improved the design of sheet with functions of modelado in the group. Now they can create eyelashes asociativas using the existent geometry and the angle of the eyelash. When converting solid models in models of sheet attains the option to conserve the alive edges with radius of folded zero. The export of developments of sheet to formats of archive DXF has improved with more specific options. The creation of patterns of punzonado for components of sheet has speeded up with the new tools of modelado of patterns of NX8.

NX ‘Re-Use Library', common platform for all the elements of reusable design, has improve with additional tools of management of libraries that allow to add or delete libraries, edit properties, control the visibility and specify which libraries are available for applications NX. The library of reuse also contains reusable objects with daughters of calculations that include attributes of pieces, expressesions and locations of images of previous sight. The library of ‘fasteners assemblies' now can customise with the pieces of the company or families of pieces like standard subjections.

For the productivity in simulation

Siemens has reinforced and expanded the technologies of his legacy of simulation and has combined them to develop NX FALLS, a modern and integrated cheese cheese surroundings of analysis of high quality, and NX Nastran, a solver of finite elements of first class. NX8 enters more than 200 new functions in NX FALLS and NX Nastran that they allow him build, update and simulate models of analysis quickly, take decisions of engineering more hit and deliver better products in less time.

NX FALLS differentiates of other preprocesadores by how integrates a geometrical base that allows a better association between the edition of geometries and the models of analysis for data multi-CAD.

NX CAM is thought especially for the mechanised of prismatic pieces, machines-tool, etc. With the simulation guarantees the hygiene and reliability of the process, allows to foresee errors of manufacture avoiding, like this, extra costs to the hour of the manufacture. NX CAM redefines the productivity of manufacture with a complete range of functions of programming of numerical control optimised for pieces of machinery. The functions of programming advanced, necessary for pieces, are available for applications of milling, taladrado, turning, milling-turning and cutting by thread. Besides, the new processors of NX8 offer the most adapted approach for the programming of prismatic operations like holes, slots and cashiers.

Terry Raghunath, responsible of impressesion of HP, exposed during the session the solutions that this company offers in Rapid Prototyping and Rapid Manufacturing, according to the quality with that print and the material, “already was plaster, expoxi, nylon, metal and even lovely metals”. It treats of machines that work by extrusion and whose main ‘target' are those companies that want to develop mechanical prototypes, something that allows to visualise better in what consists the design realised, for example, with NX8.

In definite, is a system that allows, also, “anticipate to possible errors in the design of moulds, for example, what justifies the investment that supposes this type of machines and that comes to show his profitability”. It treats , after all, to have a printer in the office, avoiding the need to subcontract the prototyping classical and accelerates the process, “taking into account besides that it is a clean technology that does not use chemical products”.