Gaining control over the “black art” of NC programming

技术

功能应用 - 制造执行系统 (MES)
功能应用 - 产品生命周期管理系统 (PLM)

适用行业

设备与机械

适用功能

产品研发

用例

工厂可见化与智能化
自动化制造系统
预测性维护

服务

软件设计与工程服务
系统集成

挑战

Demag Delaval Industrial Turbomachinery’s Lincoln site faced a significant bottleneck in NC programming, which was a time-consuming process requiring highly trained engineers. This bottleneck was critical as it affected the delivery speed of their gas turbine engines. Management aimed to accelerate the NC programming process and reduce dependency on specialists to improve competitiveness and eliminate non-value-added processes.

关于客户

Demag Delaval Industrial Turbomachinery Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens, is a full-service provider of power systems, equipment, and services. The company’s Lincoln site specializes in the production of industrial gas turbines. As a subsidiary of Siemens, Demag Delaval benefits from advanced technological support and resources, allowing it to focus on continuous improvement and cost reduction in its manufacturing processes. The company has a strong emphasis on leveraging technology to streamline operations and enhance productivity.

解决方案

The adoption of NX CAM software provided a solution to the NC programming bottleneck. NX CAM, with its built-in knowledge capture technology, allowed the company to incorporate its manufacturing know-how and industry best practices into the CAM system. This information was reused in the form of manufacturing templates and process assistants. Templates captured the specifics of machining processes, while process assistants automated NC programming further by guiding programmers through the steps involved in creating an NC program. This approach significantly reduced the learning curve for new NC programmers and standardized operations, making the process more efficient and less dependent on specialists.

运营影响

The adoption of NX CAM has greatly simplified the job of NC programmers by standardizing operations and reducing the learning curve for new programmers.
The bottleneck in NC programming has been eliminated, leading to a dramatic increase in programmer productivity.
The number of CNC machine tools increased from 14 to 54, while the number of NC programmers remained the same.

数量效益

The number of CNC machine tools increased from 14 to 54.
Previously, there could be a delay of up to three months between initial design and manufacturing of a part; now, toolpath program generation can be accomplished within a couple of hours.