{"id":1978,"date":"2010-07-01T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Realistic-Machine-Tool-Simulation\/ba-p\/334383"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:14:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:14:28","slug":"realistic-machine-tool-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/realistic-machine-tool-simulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Realistic Machine Tool Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>To manufacture a complex part like a cylinder head or a turbine blade, sophisticated machine tools are used. These machine tools require an NC-program also known as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/G-code\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">G-code<\/A>. Before the actual production starts these programs are simulated to avoid collisions or damaged parts. By using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/nx\/machining\/machining\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NX CAM<\/A> and the VNCK (Mike will explain what it is in the video) it\u2019s now possible to run a much more realistic machine tool simulation than before.<BR \/><BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/b5O1ZbDws3g\"><\/IFRAME><BR \/><BR \/>Mike Fair, head of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/nx\/machining\/machining\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NX CAM<\/A> Product Management talks about this very interesting topic which he presented during the PLM Connection Americas 2010.<BR \/><BR \/>Want to know more? Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/nx\/machining\/machining\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NX CAM<\/A> homepage.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To manufacture a complex part like a cylinder head or a turbine blade, sophisticated machine tools are used. These machine tools require an NC-program also known as G-code. Before the actual producti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61841,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1979,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions\/1979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}