Siemens’ booth demos impress at the IPC APEX Electronics Show 2017

Written by Maria Mosto, Siemens PLM Software

IPC APEX Expo is a five-day event like no other in the printed circuit board and electronics manufacturing industry. Professionals from around the world came together to participate in the technical conference, exhibition, and professional development, standards development and certification programs at the February 2017 event. This year over 300 people visited the Siemens booth and learned how Siemens can help them realize the potential to change the way they manufacture products.

We demonstrated how Siemens connects the digital thread from planning and design to production and beyond, creating an integrated manufacturing data model with the intelligence to easily interoperate among departments, systems and sites helping close the loop for improved efficiency for the electronics industry.

The booth featured a live demonstration with a Universal Robot performing previously impossible electronics assembly operations. Siemens and ArtiMinds Robotics, a Frontier Partner Program member, have integrated the ArtiMinds Robot Programming Suite (RPS) into the Siemens Process Simulate framework to enable a new level of flexible robot use in production.

Four posters were also submitted to the conference with abstracts and each provided the audience with a very visual way to understand exciting new technologies and the strategies to implement them.

Check them out and let us know what you think in the comments section below.You can also download the posters from the attachments section.

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