Siemens PLM 将制造管理提升到新的高度

转自：http://www.managingautomation.com/maonline/exclusive/read/Siemens_PLM_Moves_Manufacturing_Management_to_New_Level_27755709

Siemens PLM Software recently rolled out Tecnomatix 9, a digital
manufacturing suite that includes new features to enhance process
planning, increase production efficiency, and enable robotics
simulation and virtual commissioning.

Leveraging Teamcenter, the company’s PLM backbone,
Tecnomatix 9 supports concepts such as the reuse of best practices and
standardization, automating planning tasks, connecting planning and
processing, as well as managing complexity through tools that enable
change management, for example.

In production, Tecnomatix 9 manages workflow between engineering
bill of materials (eBOM) and manufacturing bill of materials (mBOM),
showing color-coded comparisons of where parts have changed to quickly
verify the effects on the process. A time management module estimates
execution of assembly operations, measuring all processes to calculate
cost. And, the Dimensional Planning and Validation feature collects
as-built information from the shop floor, managing it in Teamcenter, in
order to run root cause analysis to define good processes for quality
purposes.

Production is also enhanced through simulation and virtual commissioning
.
A robotic automatic path planning function significantly reduces
offline programming of robots. In addition, the Tecnomatix virtual
commissioning capability allows for testing real PLC controller
programs against virtual manufacturing lines, which can lead to a
dramatic reduction in commissioning time on the shop floor.
Furthermore, standard libraries of intelligent components significantly
reduce the time and effort spent on virtual commissioning projects by
eliminating the time necessary to manually create logic definitions
from scratch, the company said.

In addition, automated planning tasks — a key productivity
enhancer — includes a function that allows for the rapid creation
and exploration of alternate product assembly/disassembly sequencing in
order to optimize this planning task and save time in creating assembly
documentation. Another automated planning task uses a high-level task
description to manipulate the human model component of Tecnomatix in 3D
virtual environments. This enables the evaluation of various what-if
scenarios involving the simulation of humans in a manufacturing or
maintenance environment.

“With the Tecnomatix solution, we have succeeded in
introducing a fully integrated planning system into our company,”
said Roland Weisser, plant manager, ebm-papst St. Georgen GmbH &
Co. KG, in a statement. “From design and planning to the
after-sales stage, we are able to map the entire production lifecycle.
The planning data can be reused at any time and the production planners
can access existing documentation for the same process and the same
machine or system.”