Design Freedom with Breakthrough Synchronous Technology and Advanced
Simulation Deliver Greater Powers
BOSTON, May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of
Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of
product lifecycle management (PLM) products and services, today announced
the release of NX(TM) 6 digital product development software that provides
features driven from Siemens PLM Software's recently announced synchronous
technology.
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Siemens PLM Software made the announcement in conjunction with its
annual industry analyst event that begins today in Boston.
"NX 6 delivers on the breakthrough in design productivity we announced
last month," said Joan Hirsch, vice president of NX product development,
Siemens PLM Software. "We've integrated synchronous technology into the NX
comprehensive toolset, delivering major enhancements to design, simulation
and manufacturing. This release enhances our strong momentum and the market
share growth NX is experiencing."
"Our implementation of NX is realizing productivity improvements that
have exceeded our targets and overall we're seeing a 20 percent improvement
in the CAD operation efficiency," said Keigo Fukushi, general manager,
Process Information Management Department, R&D Engineering Management
Division, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. "We believe the NX team is committed to
helping Nissan achieve our long-term objectives in product development."
Four key NX 6 innovations
* Flexibility -- NX 6 provides users new flexibility with Design Freedom
powered by synchronous technology that leverages the ease of direct
editing in the model creation process. Design Freedom now combines the
best of constraint-driven techniques with direct modeling in a
technology that provides users with up to a 100 times faster design
experience than ever before.
* Strength -- NX 6 handles extremely complex problems through
comprehensive CAD/CAM/CAE. NX 6 advanced simulation handles the most
demanding CAE challenges, providing a 30 percent reduction in physical
prototypes.
* Coordination -- the NX 6 unified process enables collaborative product
development that leads to 20 percent faster cycle times through process
efficiency improvements such as feature-based machining.
* Productivity -- NX 6 provides engineers and designers greater
productivity through major re-use enhancements such as scrapbook
modeling that can improve cycle times by 40 percent. With NX 6
engineers gain greater productivity through their ability to leverage
multi-CAD data within their design, analysis and manufacturing
processes thereby reducing the need to re-master information for
improved analysis and machining times.
Design Freedom, powered by synchronous technology for greater
flexibility
NX 6 expands the capabilities of Design Freedom with the new
synchronous technology application layer. NX 6 Design Freedom provides new
approaches to creating and editing geometry. These improvements make CAD
easier for everyone in the product lifecycle, including designers,
engineers, analysts and manufacturing engineers.
A new "active selection" technique adds intelligence to designs when
needed. These advanced selection methods automatically recognize logical
and feature relationships even on non-native data.
"The Design Freedom capabilities from NX 6 will improve our engineers'
ability to deal with external non-parametric or very complex models," said
Feng Lianguo, chief engineer, Hisense Air-Conditioner R&D Centre. "We can
easily and quickly re-use the model or feature not only from old version,
but also from other software. It will definitely become a most powerful
tool to assist engineers, and it will also improve our modeling method."
In addition to Design Freedom, NX 6 continues to improve the user
experience by providing users with greater flexibility through enhancements
to its role-based user interface introduced in NX 5. The NX 6 user
interface adds full screen mode for maximum graphics and customizable
on-screen pop ups to speed interaction. The result is a system that casual
users can leverage along with the most experienced CAD users.
"The latest release of NX enables me to be more efficient and
productive. The customizable pop-up menus really speed things up," said
Elango Ramanathan, automation specialist, Hughes Christensen. "Now I can
put all my favorite commands right under my mouse, there's no need to go to
the menu bar to pick a command. What's really great is to be able to use
all of my screen space for graphics; this makes complex design work so much
easier."
Advanced simulation for greater strength
NX 6 continues to deliver on Siemens PLM Software's Lifecycle
Simulation vision, which is to make simulation pervasive throughout the
product lifecycle in order to design in quality and drive product
innovation. The new release includes a complete suite of robust
multi-disciplinary simulation solutions that meet the needs of advanced CAE
analysis experts as well as designers and design engineers.
NX 6 simulation provides extensions to the integrated Advanced Flow and
Advanced Thermal solutions. This enables simulation of the complete range
of coupled multi-physics, including conduction, forced convection,
condensation. In addition, new FE model correlation capabilities enable CAE
engineers to validate the accuracy of their simulation results against
real-world performance measurements from physical prototypes. This results
in better design decisions at increased levels of accuracy
"We are very interested in NX 6's new CAE features," said Mdm. Liu
Liping, manager assistant of CAE Dept., Foton Automotive Engineering
Research Institute. "Particularly NX's pre/post capabilities and the solver
strengths of NX Nastran(R). We noticed the enhanced unified CAD/CAE mode
and see its inherent advantage. The method and capability of mid-surface
extract is also good. We will also leverage the 'Virtual Mass' method when
we make response simulations for liquid containers. It is an effective and
quick linear contact solution for such analysis. These capabilities left us
with a deep impression. We look forward to trying them out in NX 6."
Global access to centrally managed data for greater coordination
NX provides greater coordination by integrating CAD/CAM/CAE disciplines
across a product's lifecycle. This unified process accesses centrally
managed knowledge to accelerate product development.
Product knowledge is leveraged in downstream applications through
product and manufacturing information (PMI) data. NX 6 leverages PMI data
to significantly improve the flow of information throughout the lifecycle.
This connects to the feature-based programming automation in NX CAM and
reduces NC programming time by 20 percent.
Additionally, CAE product knowledge is coordinated through NX Advanced
Simulation, which leverages the new CAE data model and CAE Assembly Product
Structure available in Teamcenter(R) for Simulation. Teamcenter integration
enables the global transformation of new product development processes,
including the integration of data from both commercial and in-house
simulation tools.
NX 6 also improves coordination through faster data management
capabilities. The new release leverages the latest performance gains
offered by the new Teamcenter architecture. This is particularly important
to users working at multiple geographically dispersed locations where the
need to interact real time with information is critical.
With access to Geolus(R) Search available inside NX, engineers are now
able to search for common parts by characteristics such as size and shape.
Geolus Search is a 3D search engine which quickly identifies parts based on
their geometry characteristics such as size and shape. Geolus search
results can include NX parts, JT data or data from other CAD systems.
Re-use throughout the lifecycle for greater productivity
A differentiating feature of NX over competing systems is its ability
to capture and re-use knowledge in CAD/CAM/CAE. NX 6 provides key new
features that increase product re-use for reduced design time. Design
Freedom preserves multi-CAD design intent by allowing users to add
intelligence where necessary.
"The new editing capabilities of NX 6, which allow you to easily make
fast changes, are really impressive," said Danila Marco, CAD-CAM Portfolio
Manager, Avio S.p.A. "You can simply modify data imported from other CAD
systems, without knowing their history. Furthermore, JT format integration
is a step forward in large assembly handling and the new interface is
particularly intuitive and attractive."
In addition, NX 6 supports a new workflow called "scrapbook modeling"
that allows users to cut, copy and paste sections of a model to increase
geometry re-use. This can reduce model preparation effort by up to 70
percent.
In addition to the re-use of product knowledge in design, NX enables
manufacturing to re-use processes, which cuts overall manufacturing cycle
time. For example, the new NX 6 Machining Knowledge Database stores
feature-based machining processes to support programming automation and to
share company best practices. Pre-built machine tool kits also speed
implementation.
Availability
NX 6 is expected to be available by June 30. For a complete what's new
guide, visit http://www.siemens.com/plm/nx6 .
About Siemens PLM Software
Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry
Automation Division, is a leading global provider of product lifecycle
management (PLM) software and services with 5.5 million licensed seats and
51,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Siemens PLM
Software's open enterprise solutions enable a world where organizations and
their partners collaborate through Global Innovation Networks to deliver
world-class products and services. For more information on Siemens PLM
Software products and services, visit http://www.siemens.com/plm .
About the Siemens Industry Automation Division
The Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg), a division of the
Siemens Industry Sector, is a worldwide leader in the fields of automation
systems, low-voltage switchgear and industrial software. Its portfolio
ranges from standard products for the manufacturing and process industry to
solutions for whole industries and systems that encompass the automation of
entire automobile production facilities and chemical plants. As a leading
software supplier, Industry Automation optimizes the entire value added
chain of manufacturers -- from product design and development to
production, sales and a wide range of maintenance services.
Note: Siemens and the Siemens logo are registered trademarks of Siemens
AG. NX, Geolus and Teamcenter are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. or its subsidiaries in
the United States and in other countries. NASTRAN is a registered trademark
of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. All other trademarks,
registered trademarks or service marks belong to their respective holders.
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