Elevate A&D Manufacturing Process Planning with a Comprehensive Digital Twin
For global Aerospace & Defense manufacturers, the demands are constant: increase production, accelerate ramp-up, and ensure flawless precision. Traditional, siloed manufacturing processes often lead to higher risks, increased costs, and longer time-to-market. But what if you could predict manufacturing system behavior, prevent problems before they occur, and build quality, complex products faster?
Siemens Digital Manufacturing solutions, an integral part of Siemens Xcelerator, offer a powerful approach to A&D industry manufacturing challenges. By embracing a complete Digital Twin and a Model-Based Enterprise (MBE), you can bridge the gap between design and manufacturing engineering, ensuring all stakeholders work in a collaborative software environment, enriching data sets built on a 3D model, to optimize your manufacturing planning and simulation processes for flawless A&D production.
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Embrace a complete Digital Twin and Model-Based Enterprise
Central to digital manufacturing process planning is the comprehensive Digital Twin, a dynamic virtual representation of your product and production system. This isn’t merely a static model; it’s the digital thread that seamlessly links functional domains from design to manufacturing using closed loop processes.
Model-Based Enterprise (MBE) is a practice where all stakeholders who contribute to the design of a product and its production system, work in a collaborative software environment, creating and enriching data sets, which are built on top of a 3D model. Becoming a MBE is critical to gaining digital competency and meeting flawless production objectives. It employs digital models of a product’s design, manufacturability, and sustainment to automate and better manage the overall product lifecycle.
With a comprehensive Digital Twin and MBE strategy in place based on Siemens solutions, users work in a collaborative ecosystem with rich product engineering and manufacturing data and best practices built-in. Stakeholders across the product and production lifecycle, from design to manufacturing operate with the right information in context to their specific functions. Siemens integrated digital manufacturing solutions ensure digital continuity throughout the product and production lifecycle, fostering innovation and preparing your operations for the future.
Work smarter with Teamcenter Manufacturing Easy Plan
The foundation for a comprehensive Digital Twin is Teamcenter. It connects data, people, and processes across functional domains spanning a digital enterprise. Teamcenter Manufacturing Easy Plan is a robust, task-based solution for manufacturing process planning that empowers A&D manufacturing and product teams to:
- Plan early for manufacturing: Shift-left manufacturing planning in the product lifecycle to eliminate costly downstream errors on the shop floor – validating and optimizing production processes before moving to physical production
- Work smarter and collaborate better: Use a Teamcenter PLM-based backbone leveraging AI and an award winning user-friendly UX to foster seamless collaboration between domains, work with contextualized data, and streamline tasks
- Manage critical manufacturing data: Create and manage your Manufacturing Bill-of-Materials (MBOM) and Bill-of-Process (BOP) with ease using connected product data and built-in industry best practices
- Streamline shop floor communication: Author electronic work instructions efficiently and share them with shop floor users, reducing preparation time with access to product data, and leveraging annotated 3D views
- Integrate with advanced digital manufacturing tools: Seamlessly connect with solutions like NX CAM for part manufacturing and line design, and Tecnomatix Process Simulate and Plant Simulation to model, verify, and optimize your production processes
- Connect to other systems: MES and ERP connections are essential to working smarter, Teamcenter Manufacturing Easy Plan enables contextualized data sharing with the right users at the right time
By leveraging a true digital thread of data from product design to manufacturing, you can create a digital twin of your production facilities and processes. This “shift left” approach to manufacturing enables concurrent product design and process planning, validation, and continuous optimization, ultimately leading to increased efficiency, less production downtime, and accelerated programming time.
Ready to optimize your A&D production processes and build quality, complex products faster? Discover how Siemens Digital Manufacturing solutions can help you achieve your goals.
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