Siemens Xcelerator, an open digital business platform, has created a powerful ecosystem of partners to jointly accelerate the digital transformation of the industry. Via this platform, DMG MORI, Renishaw, and Siemens are working together as innovation partners to expand digital offerings for machine tools.
With a focus on scalability and high flexibility, there are now even more intelligent machining applications for CNC users that seamlessly complement the Siemens solutions and deliver a high value-add based on them.
The Siemens Xcelerator offering from Renishaw consists of a solution for measuring and monitoring tool conditions. (DMG MORI already offers the basic system.) The solution uses a high-precision laser system for tool measurement from Renishaw and the edge-based analysis software Analyze MyWorkpiece/ Monitor from Siemens.
The condition monitoring solution enables the automatic validation of tool wear and the timely automatic replacement of worn tools. Thanks to data evaluation, the solution also ensures that the manufacturing process is traceable. Fast tool inspection by optical scanning reduces manual intervention and, therefore, disruptions within the manufacturing process. The data-driven analysis approach ensures the traceability of the manufacturing process, which closes the loop in terms of quality assurance and production planning (closed-loop manufacturing).
DMG MORI, a manufacturer of high-precision machine tools, is expanding its offering of an end-to-end digital twin for machine tool machining on the Siemens Xcelerator Marketplace.
Specific solutions for the digital twin of the control system, machine, and workpiece will be presented for various applications. This makes it possible to optimise machining processes long before the real machine is put into operation.
Based on the digital native CNC Sinumerik One, the portfolio includes a tailored digital twin for the user – regardless of the shop floor or CAM applications. For example, machine operators on the shop floor can purchase a digital twin package that allows them to create a simple NC program on the PC and thus carry out a collision check without using the machine. On the other hand, a CAM user can create sophisticated parts in a CAD environment and perform a quick initial validation of the program.
With DMG MORI’s new, scalable digital twin offerings, customers can now individually determine the scope of the required simulation and purchase the corresponding packages.
The DMG MORI digital twin for machine tool machining helps avoid programming errors that cause rejects and damage to the actual machine. It can ramp up production up to 40% faster, significantly reducing the energy consumption of the real machine. Even new processes can be set up digitally while the machine is operational. It also helps to reduce unproductive machine times, such as test machining, by as much as 75%. This is because the testing and running-in of programs are transferred from the actual machine to the virtual world.
