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In an Industrial Machinery Digest<\/a> <\/span>article, Bill Davis, Director of Industrial Machinery and Heavy Equipment Solutions at Siemens Digital Industries Software<\/em>, discusses how additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, provides multiple manufacturing benefits. These include faster, flexible manufacturing methods with fewer design constraints that allow the design freedom to integrate welding, sheet metal and casting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Engineers can now design with the minimum materials necessary, using additive manufacturing to combine separate parts as a single additive component, eliminating the cost of machining each part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, there are challenges in manufacturing and delivering high-quality AM parts at an industrial scale. There is a need for a tightly integrated and closed-loop design\u2014simulate\u2014manufacture flow to achieve quality additive products while minimizing design iterations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before printing, designs must endure rigorous simulations of the printing process to mitigate risks, optimize the printing and improve yield. This method expands the full breadth of variables affecting the additive outcome, including the mixture of virgin and recycled print material, ambient humidity, machine parameters and more. Also, most companies must fit AM machinery into existing facilities, integrating it with traditional manufacturing processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Implementing a comprehensive digital twin <\/strong>is essential to this process, including the initial simulation design, production and testing, to return additive manufacturing positively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The digital twin is vital to construct and execute additive parts while managing delivery, manufacturing, operations and quality of manufacturing operations management. In addition, these components deliver awareness for harmonizing activities to provide accurate parts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Siemens Digital Industries Software<\/strong> is driving transformation to enable a digital enterprise where engineering, manufacturing and electronics design meet tomorrow. The Xcelerator portfolio<\/a> helps companies of all sizes create and leverage digital twins that provide organizations with new insights, opportunities and levels of automation to drive innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information on Siemens Digital Industries Software products and services, visit www.sw.siemens.com<\/a> or follow us on LinkedIn<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Facebook<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Siemens Digital Industries Software \u2013 Where today meets tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n><\/strong>Read the article to learn more<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n