{"id":543,"date":"2023-11-01T15:24:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T19:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/additive\/?p=543"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:00:09","slug":"sintavia-is-pushing-the-additive-manufacturing-factory-into-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/additive\/sintavia-is-pushing-the-additive-manufacturing-factory-into-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Sintavia is pushing the additive manufacturing factory into the future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Brian Neff and his team have built Sintavia into one of the most sophisticated additive manufacturing companies in the world.  Founded as a metal 3D printing service bureau printing a myriad of parts for the aerospace industry, Sintavia has grown to become the foremost manufacturer of thermodynamic components for the aerospace industry.  &#8220;It\u2019s really no secret that one of the killer apps for metal 3D printing is heat exchangers, where you have a hot fluid flowing next to a cold fluid in a very tight compressed boundary condition. We saw heat exchangers as a market we could dominate, and since then, we\u2019ve focused our business on this goal,&#8221; said Neff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, expanding Sintavia into the business it is today took a strong focus on the software process of additive manufacturing from design to production.  \u201cWhen you look at our approach to software,\u201d Neff says, \u201cwe want to have the same vertical alignment as the rest of our operation. We want to rely on one suite of products that we can go from start to finish. Siemens offered us the best end-to-end package, and we\u2019ve been expanding it on both the design and production end as the business has evolved and grown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2023\/11\/SintaviaBlog_0000_Layer-7-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2023\/11\/SintaviaBlog_0000_Layer-7-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2023\/11\/SintaviaBlog_0000_Layer-7-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2023\/11\/SintaviaBlog_0000_Layer-7-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2023\/11\/SintaviaBlog_0000_Layer-7-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2023\/11\/SintaviaBlog_0000_Layer-7-395x222.jpg 395w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2023\/11\/SintaviaBlog_0000_Layer-7-900x506.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2023\/11\/SintaviaBlog_0000_Layer-7.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe started with Teamcenter,\u201d he adds. \u201cTeamcenter locked down all of our data, all of our processes, and that was big because that&#8217;s very auditable. Then we started implementing Opcenter.&#8221;  &#8220;What we have now goes beyond a dashboard,\u201d Neff says. \u201cWe have a tool that allows managers, including myself, to monitor and track how work is progressing through our system, and to identify areas for continuous improvement.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find more information about how Sintavia is managing their additive manufacturing operation in our new success story video below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sintavia builds aerospace additive digital thread for hypergrowth\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uMHTnqkbN9A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>All images courtesy Sintavia.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sintavia is 3D printing high-end aerospace components utilizing Siemens software throughout their operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49773,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[116,117,123,125],"industry":[59],"product":[218,398,457,460,303,320,381],"coauthors":[534],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customer-success-story","tag-3d-printing","tag-additive-manufacturing","tag-digital-enterprise","tag-digital-twin","industry-aerospace-defense","product-nx","product-nx-additive-manufacturing","product-opcenter-bill-of-process-execution","product-opcenter-modular-manufacturing","product-simcenter-star-ccm","product-teamcenter-enterprise","product-teamcenter-manufacturing"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2020\/09\/SintaviaLogo_WhiteBG.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/additive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/additive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/additive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/additive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49773"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/additive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/additive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/additive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/additive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/additive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/additive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/additive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/additive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/additive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/additive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}