{"id":1816,"date":"2009-02-05T22:30:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T06:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Heard-about-Digital-Manufacturing\/ba-p\/333868"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:12:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:12:42","slug":"heard-about-digital-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/heard-about-digital-manufacturing\/","title":{"rendered":"Heard about Digital Manufacturing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><\/P><P>You might say, I know how to design a product, but digital manufacturing? Is it something like the creation of a product out of pure energy; a kind of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/startrek\/view\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">STAR TREK<\/A> technology? That would be really cool, but digital manufacturing is more real than that.<\/P>  <P>Digital manufacturing is a way to plan and simulate the manufacturing process in a virtual environment. Basically it uses the 3D CAD data and allows you to build the product virtually. There are many questions that could be answered like:<\/P>  <UL>   <LI>Which machine tools do I need to manufacture the product? <\/LI>    <LI>How could I create the program for the machine tool?<\/LI>    <LI>And how could I be sure that the program is running smoothly? <\/LI>    <LI>In which sequence do I have to assemble the product? <\/LI>    <LI>How should I place my workplaces in the factory for an optimal output? <\/LI> <\/UL>  <P>Digital manufacturing is about answering all this up front to the start of production in a virtual environment.<\/P>  <P>For example the third question: The German based machine tool builder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.index-werke.de\/de\/englisch\/index_ENG_HTML.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Index Group<\/A> is using our solution to simulate a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.index-werke.de\/de\/englisch\/551_ENG_HTML.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">virtual machine<\/A> and together with a virtual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.automation.siemens.com\/mc\/mc-sol\/en\/6f1ffad8-535d-4cdc-bcd7-e9daef530780\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Siemens 840D controller<\/A> to validate and optimize the NC programs before they go into production. This is one of the fascinating things, seeing the virtual machine in a virtual production controlled by the virtual controller. The simulation is visualizing the material removal, checking for collisions and even showing the tool path.<\/P>  <P>Beside the confidence that the NC program can run without collisions, the tool path could be used to optimize the NC program and reduce the production time.<\/P>  <P>This is one example of how digital manufacturing could help manufacturing companies to validate and optimize production processes.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might say, I know how to design a product, but digital manufacturing? Is it something like the creation of a product out of pure energy; a kind of STAR TREK technology? 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