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Additive Manufacturing

As a Siemens Smart Expert accredited partner for Additive Manufacturing deployments throughout the UK and Ireland, we offer a robust portfolio of software allowing you to execute the entire additive manufacturing process from design to production. 

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What is Additive Manufacturing?

Additive manufacturing is the process of creating an object by building it one layer at a time. It is the opposite of subtractive manufacturing, in which an object is created by cutting away at a solid block of material until the final product is complete. Technically, additive manufacturing can refer to any process where a product is created by building something up, such as molding, but it typically refers to 3-D printing. Additive manufacturing presents a tremendous opportunity to improve products by making them more cost-effective to produce, and, therefore, less expensive for the consumer.

How Additive Manufacturing Works

To create an object using additive manufacturing, someone must first create a design. This is typically done using computer aided design, or CAD, software, or by taking a scan of the object someone wants to print. Software then translates the design into a layer by layer framework for the additive manufacturing machine to follow. 

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What are the benefits of Additive Manufacturing?

Additive manufacturing presents a tremendous opportunity to improve products by making them more cost-effective to produce, and, therefore, less expensive for the consumer. Additive manufacturing provides results that relate to most industries and processes by reducing final product weight, power consumption, and material usage. It also minimises costs and environmental impact via fewer materials needed for production ‒ substantial benefits that any manufacturing company would welcome.​​​

Save on Costs, Material Waste and Energy

Smaller, Faster Production Runs & Less Inventory

Easier to Recreate and Optimise Legacy Parts

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More Control and Options Over The End Result

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End-to-End Digital Manufacturing of Femoral Implants with Kaizen PLM, Seco Tools, and Additure/Nikon SLM Solutions

Kaizen PLM, a leader in additive manufacturing and medical device solutions, collaborated with Seco Tools and Additure/Nikon SLM Solutions to develop a cutting-edge, end-to-end digital manufacturing strategy for femoral implants. By leveraging Siemens NX CAM and Simcenter 3D, Kaizen streamlined the entire workflow from design to CNC machining, additive manufacturing, and simulation, demonstrating a fully integrated and efficient process.

Learn more about our additive manufacturing solutions:

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Design for additive manufacturing

 AM expands the possibilities for product design, allowing for topology optimized parts, lattice structures, meshing and geometric patterns

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Additive Manufacturing 

Build process simulation

Simulate the build process prior to printing, anticipating distortion and automatically generating the corrected geometry.

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Produce state-of-the-art designs with Multi-Axis Deposition, allowing you to create multi-axis additive manufacturing toolpaths. 

Siemens AM Network

Learn more about how you can maximize your design and engineering potential with NX’s cutting-edge toolkit of additive design capabilities and Siemens AM Network.

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Manage your additive process from order to shipment

To maximise the efficiency of additive manufacturing production, the process must be well managed.  The Managing additive manufacturing production goes beyond taking orders and filling them. To get the most from your additive manufacturing investment, you need to track materials, maximise printer uptime, and manage the entire process from order to shipment with maximum efficiency.

Process Collaboration​​

Leverage the Siemens Additive Manufacturing Network, an online order-to-delivery collaboration platform for the industrial additive manufacturing (AM) community. It connects the additive ecosystem, simplifies the collaboration process and streamlines the print production process. The network digitises and consistently improves your processes, ultimately accelerating the value of using additive manufacturing.

Scheduling and Monitoring

Implement Opcenter solutions to manage your AM production through scheduling, execution and monitoring. Get full operational visibility to ensure optimal quality and efficiency. You can also use Opcenter solutions to visualise material flow throughout a facility. This helps ensure you are using the proper mix of recycled and virgin material for the various print jobs you execute throughout the factory.

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Quality and Analytics

Get the most from AM through a quality process that includes a strong set of internet of things (IoT) and analytics solutions. Siemens Insights Hub provides the ability to monitor the AM process, analyze the resulting data, and act upon that data with part and process improvements. This closed feedback loop allows you to feed insights back into upstream phases of the additive manufacturing process, optimising next-generation innovation.​​

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Siemens AM Use Case

Utilize scans of physical objects to engineer and 3D print individualized products

Value:

•Personalize products

•Economically produce lot sizes of one part

•Expedite reverse engineering of parts

 

Key capabilities:

Convergent ModelingTM – standard CAD tools work with mixed facet and precise geometry

•Linked, smart model-driven process from scan to printed part

Industries: medical, aerospace, heavy equipment, industrial machinery, energy

Using NX to power next-generation additive design and production.


NX™ software, specifically NX Design for Additive Manufacturing, offers industry leading capabilities for design optimisation, weight reduction and customisation of parts.

Complete Workflow: Lattice Design, Additive Build Prep, Simulation & Machining of a Femoral Implant

Watch more about Additive below

Bugatti Additive Manufacturing Process I Siemens NX and Simcenter
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Algorithmic Modeling Simplifies Complex AM Design
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Implicit Modeling for Lattice-based Engineered Structures
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Simcenter 3D – The Key to Avoiding Failure is Prediction
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Simcenter HEEDS - Automated Design Exploration Enables Multi-Objective AM Part Optimization
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The new AM Durability Solver in Simcenter 3D
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Automating 3D Printing Build Preparation
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NX AM Path Optimizer
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Optimizing build orientation with the AM Build Optimizer
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Automated powder removal streamlines AM post-processing
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NX Part Serialization Enables a Traceable Digital Thread
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NX - Enhance AM Productivity with Simple, Rapid Build Preparation
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Siemens AM software and EOS 3D print systems
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Powering a Multi axis AM Operation
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SIEMENS AM Network introduction - info@kaizenam.co.uk
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AM Network Overview
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Additive Manufacturing Network - info@kaizenam.co.uk
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Expert led NX Additive Manufacturing Training Courses

Let us help you make the most out of your NX software investment.

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Expert led NX Additive Manufacturing Training Courses

Let us help you make the most out of your additive manufacturing software investment.

Contact us to get started with Additive Manufacturing

So if you want to learn how additive manufacturing  enables your engineering team to reduce the time to market and lower production costs, why not book a discovery call with us and our partners at Siemens Digital Industries Software.   

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