A Big-Picture View of Micromachining
 Matrix Tooling makes injection molds for components that have features you cannot see.

A Virtual Jog Mode for CAM
This CAM feature allows tool paths to be defined through a process that resembles jogging the machine manually.

Redundant Server System Provides System Backup
Siemens’ S7 OPC Redundancy application enables users to design redundant server systems for fail-safe connections to HMI devices within industrial Ethernet or Profibus networks.OPC (openness, productivity and collaboration) is a standardized and open interface for connecting Windows applications using protocols such as S7-communication, Profinet and SNMP.

From Image to Implant
Demo shows custom implant made on commodity-level machine.

PLM Software Integrates CAM and Inspection Functions
An integrated CAD/CAM/CAE solution, NX PLM software has a variety of new functions to improve part-manufacturing productivity including integrated CAM and CMM capabilities.

Software Enhances Synchronous Technology
 Siemens PLM Software’s NX 7.0 digital product development software features HD3D, an open and intuitive visual environment designed to help global product development teams access PLM information.

Webinars From MMS Online
View on-demand webinars that cover topics including 3D printing, machine monitoring technology, tool shop optimization and CAM's impact on profitability.

PLM Offerings Bring Product To Market Faster
Siemens PLM Software presents a portfolio that focuses on the workpiece-oriented process chain that extends from initial idea for a product to the finished piece. The chain begins with product development and part program generation with CAD/CAM systems and optimization of the postprocessor and CNC parameters.

Increase Productivity Throughout Product Lifecycle
Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division, offers its Teamcenter PLM software. The system focuses on individual, application and IT productivity and features with a variety of enhancements.

Software Enhances Functionality, Improves Productivity
Parasolid version 21. 0 from Siemens PLM Software features enhanced 3D geometric modeling functionalities that allow more complex changes during local edits of geometry.

Software Enhances Machine Tool Productivity
For the job shop, new versions of ShopMill and ShopTurn software packages allow users to achieve higher productivity, simplicity and speed, the company says. By featuring easy, step-by-step, on-screen programming, job shops can quickly respond to customer demands by reducing programming, tooling and production times, the company says.  The company also offers its Sinumerik 802D operator panel-based control system that combines the NC, the PLC and the HMI in a single unit.

CAE Software With Interactive Meshing Tools
Femap version 10 software is a PC-based CAE modeling solution and the finite element analysis (FEA) component of the Velocity Series portfolio from Siemens PLM Software. It is said to help users create FEA models from CAD data easily and quickly through new meshing features. Also, it provides pre- and post-processing benefits to CAE analysts.

Software Breeds Global Collaboration
The Industrial Applications business of Siemens Power Generation Group (PG) employs approximately 11,000 people based at more than 50 sites around the globe. These facilities include major design and engineering centers (with more than 800 employees at each and some with as many as 2,500 people), as well as smaller manufacturing and service competence centers and numerous regional organizations.

CAD Software Upgrade Features JT Data Format

Geometric Modeling Component Program Updated

Practical Tips For High Speed Machining Of Dies And Molds
In die/mold work, the programmer can make the HSM process dramatically more effective. Here are some tips.

Chatter Control For The Rest Of Us
This shop finds stable milling speeds quickly using a systematic pattern of test cuts.

CAD/CAM Add-In Automates 80 Percent Of NC Programming Tasks
This company designs and builds the molds used to manufacture most of its products. In the past, the company's designers used a 2D CAD software package to create the mold design, and they wrote a series of macros in a 2D CAM system that performed much of the process of converting the design to a CNC program.

The Mold Consultant
This mold maker saves customers time and money by getting involved early in the design of molded parts.

Constant Material Removal: The Key To Hard Milling
Features of the CAM software can keep the cut from exceeding the tool’s limits, without compromising part quality or productivity.

Scalable Measurement And Quality
Machine shop owners face a fundamental conflict in their efforts to make metrology an integral part of manufacturing processes. On one hand, the critical relationship between quality and profitability makes metalworking professionals reluctant to change tried-and-true methods. On the other hand, however, the drive for better productivity demands that every aspect of the manufacturing process be rationalized and increasingly divorced from the realm of human subjectivity.

Machine Shop Finds New Uses For Aerospace Technology
When most machine shops in California's aerospace industry were closing their doors, one machine shop's doors opened wider.

An Incremental Approach To Generative NC
This Air Force production facility is automating NC programming to dramatically reduce the time required to model and manufacture emergency replacement parts. Their "virtual factory" approach models part and process concurrently.

• Video: Manual Jog Mode within CAM

  This CAM feature allows tool paths to be defined through a process that resembles jogging the machine manually.