Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM)

Digital Machine Shop Series: Blog #6 Access the digital twin from the shop floor

The digital twin is a concept about how to map the digital world with the physical world. If you remember on the CAM side, we didn’t want to go only for the CAM.  We need to add the whole simula…

Digital Machine Shop Series: Blog #5 Tool management and set up

Let’s talk about tool management and tool planning on the shop floor.

In tool management, we have two different worlds.  We have the planning side in the CAM room.  In the planni…

Digital Machine Shop Series: Blog #4 Process planning with a digital twin

Some people call the process planning department, the CAM room, but we are not talking about computer-aided design only. CAM is a very important component but not the whole thing.  If you want t…

Digital Machine Shop Series: Blog #3 – Tool design with new technologies

In this blog I’ll tell you about Siemens’ Mold Design software which enables an automated process in which the application helps us to redesign the set-up for the mold.

To see the example,…

Digital Machine Shop Series: Blog #2 – The importance of new technologies

I would like to share more with you about our concept of the digital machine shop.  We all talk about a revolution in the machining space.  We talk about Industry 4.0 – the future of manufa…