{"id":4770,"date":"2017-11-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Simcenter-Blog\/Enabling-nanoscale-precision-to-the-semiconductor-industry\/ba-p\/446192"},"modified":"2026-03-26T06:01:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:01:33","slug":"enabling-nanoscale-precision-to-the-semiconductor-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/enabling-nanoscale-precision-to-the-semiconductor-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Enabling nanoscale precision to the semiconductor industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><SPAN><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pm.nl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">PM-Bearings<\/A> located in the Netherlands at Dedemsvaart, is an innovator in ultra-high-precision linear bearings and positioning systems, supplies linear motion slides to the high-end semiconductor, medical device and machine tool industries with enormous customization requirements.&nbsp; The common trend in the semiconductor industry to make chips smaller and smaller have pushed&nbsp;the precision limits of the bearing and linear slides made by the company. <\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN>The digitalization of the product development is a game changer mitigating several risks associated with customization while delivering precision bearings faster to the market. The team has been using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en\/products\/nx\/for-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NX-CAD<\/A> software&nbsp;for design, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en\/products\/simcenter\/3d\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Simcenter 3D<\/A> software for performance engineering, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en\/products\/nx\/for-manufacturing\/cam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NX-CAM<\/A> software for manufacturing engineering and Teamcenter for providing accurate product data to the whole team. &nbsp;<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Watch&nbsp;<SPAN>Jan Willem Ridderinkhof and his team explaining their approach and the solutions to challenging precision&nbsp;requirements demanded by their clients.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-embed-center video-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embedly-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FNGcc90DixoA%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DNGcc90DixoA&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FNGcc90DixoA%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;key=fad07bfa4bd747d3bdea27e17b533c0e&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" title=\"Video\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SPAN>Excited to know more about their process and workflow? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en\/about_us\/success\/case_study.cfm?Component=259342&amp;ComponentTemplate=1481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">You can read the whole story here<\/A>.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM-Bearings located in the Netherlands at Dedemsvaart, is an innovator in ultra-high-precision linear bearings and positioning systems, supplies linear motion slides to the high-end semiconductor, me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47793,"featured_media":4771,"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":[5],"industry":[155],"product":[581],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cae-simulation","industry-industrial-machinery-heavy-equipment","product-simcenter-nastran"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/11-20-2017-11-24-48-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4772,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions\/4772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}