Digital Manufacturing

Create Virtual Models of Manufacturing Equipment

• Create any 3D part or assembly with best-in-class features combined with Boolean operations
• Create, validate and reuse mechanisms with automated support
• Automatically generate 2D drawings with 3D definition
• Create and modify complex surfaces
• Share best practices and avoid duplication of effort by capturing and reusing templates
• Work more efficiently with built-in knowledge
• Manage files in IGES and STEP format

An In-Depth Portal to Apriso Execution from the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

• The interface gives managers up-to-date information right on their 3DEXPERIENCE dashboard
• No need to open reports or open and search another database
• Can be configured using standard Apriso RUN platform tools to display multiple dashboard widgets in a customer-defined tab layout

Prepare and Validate the Additive Manufacturing Process

• Save time and energy by archiving best practices for reuse
• Automatically optimize the part positions
• Create supports to allow for developing different strategies for the additive process
• Implement a wide variety of 3D printers and additive systems with multiple outputs

Prepare, Program and Validate the Additive Manufacturing Process for Powder Bed 3D Printers

• Save time and energy by archiving best practices for reuse
• Automatically optimize the part positions
• Create supports to allow for developing different strategies for the additive process
• Implement a wide variety of 3D printers and additive systems with multiple outputs

Automatically Generate Optimized Assembly Paths

• Interactively create interference-free assembly trajectories
• Determine feasibility early in the design phase
• Easily edit and modify trajectory paths
• See the product buildup, operation by operation, in the resource context
• Define and store assembly simulation scenarios
• Detect interference during simulation
• Create choreographed simulations

Use Lifelike Manikins to Analyze Ergonomics and Occupant Safety

• Create, apply and delete data library elements
• Manage data and postures in the libraries
• Customize joint rotation limits or lock them in a specific position
• Use comfort or safety scoring for postures
• Provides custom manikin anthropometry
• Switch manikin population and gender 
• Calculate the moments and forces with biomechanics analysis
• Ensure compliance with Automatic SAE standards 
• Predict posture based on precise anthropometry

Create Cutting Tool Assembly Catalogs for NC Programmers

• Helps standardize on common practices for tool use across the machine shop or the entire enterprise
• Uses the ISO13399 standard for cutting tool data representation and exchange to create tool geometry and assign cutting attributes automatically to make them usable in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform

Create, Simulate, and Validate Complex NC Drilling and Riveting Programs

• Extended drill & rivet capabilities to customized the 3D representation of the rivet
• Define fasteners from the geometry definition
• Add customer manufacturing information to fasteners
• Provides flexible management of fasteners
• Easily view operations to be performed
• Ensure riveting actions are perpendicular
• Organize simulation reviews with powerful simulation capabilities for early validation
• Create accurate collision simulations of fastener installation
• Use simulation results to make corrections to the process

Human-Centric Product and Workplace Design

• Fully utilize the Ergonomics data libraries faster and easier 
• Easily manipulate manikins
• Provides enhanced experience for posturing capabilities
• Switch manikin population
• Assess manikin vision
• Calculate the moments and forces with bio-mechanics analysis
• Provides push, pull and carry analysis
• Detect risks with rapid upper limb assessment
• Evaluate with clash analysis
• Manage manikin attribute data

Create Highly-Specific Lifelike Manikins

• Create a wide range of humans for any percentile
• Customize a range of motion for each joint
• Identify the safest or most comfortable postures for any given activity
• Capture and re-use ergonomic enterprise standards
• Utilize comfort and safety scoring for postures

Create and Reconcile Assembly Fastener Plans

• Balance fasteners across an entire robot line
• Utilize tool analysis commands to support rivets
• Provides a realistic virtual environment to create, optimize, and validate process plans that relate to fasteners
• Lets product engineering and manufacturing engineering collaborate on the same platform
• Automatically generate process plans based on product structure
• Distribute fasteners automatically, based on product assignment

Define Manufacturing Assembly Plans for Heavy Industries

• Enables engineers in Structure, HVAC, Piping, Electrical, and other shipbuilding disciplines to do live-process edits of the same data
• Combine EBOM data from all manufacturing disciplines into a single discipline
• Generate a process plan at any point in the planning process
• Provides choice of 3D or 2D hard-copy output of ship assembly production drawings

Create Heavy Industry Fabrication Plans for Piping, HVAC and Raceway

• Provides detailed fabrication steps to map operations with the structures of manufacturing items
• Manually create end and intermediate macros, which are defined in Fabrication Data Setup
• Plan welds and generate weld features at the assembly and manufacturing level
• Generate and export pipe XML documents based on the process
• Differentiate parametric and non-parametric parts for HVAC part planning
• Provides enhanced rule-based approach for the generation of a part’s manufacturing features
• Offers synchronized updates of pipe and HVAC design

Create Balanced Process Plans for Marine and Offshore

• Provides users with unprecedented clarity of change management, impact analysis, and approvals
• Presents choices on how to visualize data
• Automatically generate systems and operations plans based on the manufactured item
• Helps planners visualize product buildup operation by operation
• Provides a one-click resource utilization workload chart to determine which operations have not yet been assigned to a resource
• Offers a ten-step interactive tutorial for beginning users

Create Manufacturing Structure Plans for Heavy Industries

• Perform weld planning and generate piece-parts at the assembly and manufacturing level
• Includes the capability of generating 2D drawings and 2D workshop documents automatically from the model
• Export one or all plates in the session based on the selected process
• Provides a ten-step interactive tutorial for beginning users

Define and Simulate Resources and Material Flow

• Enables modeling and simulation at multiple levels of detail
• Provides rapid equipment feasibility and performance studies
• Offers intuitive UI to define the material flow facilitating adoption by the users
• Enables early recognition and elimination of bottlenecks

3D Assembly Feasibility Studies for Product Designers

• Saves time with automatic extraction direction for disassembly creation
• Proposes disassembly extraction directions to simplify the creation of trajectories
• Provides 3D feedback on how the selected assembly can be moved based on collisions detected
• Offers a a dedicated 3D manipulator for easy part-motion creation with collision detection feedback
• Creates assembly sequences automatically
• View assembly specification with operation sequence viewer and editor

Easily Define the Manufactured Item Structure

• Easily create the Manufactured Items Structure
• View the status of the items assigned in the MBOM
• Provides quick and efficient updates of the MBOM
• Leverage the MBOM across the Manufacturing and Production domains

Manufacturing Process and Resource Project Administration

• Provides unprecedented clarity of change management, impact analysis, & approvals
• Color code in GANTT and workload balancing
• Manage stations and workplaces that have different cycle times within the same process plan
• Provides a simple interface to define and manage all PPR structures
• Offers immediate 3D feedback from any selected element when defining the process plan
• Leverage PPR objects from the 3DEXPERIENCE catalog to establish standards and leverage know-how
• Provides MBOM business process support

Perform Virtual NC Program Code Validation

• Validate the entire manufacturing program or a single machining operation
• Perform integrated, simultaneous simulation of NC machine motions and material removal based on the NC tool path and NC code
• Check travel limits of machine tools
• Detect collisions in the machining cell
• Calculate cycle time based on speeds and accelerations defined for individual machine axes
• Define maximum tool-wear parameters for each tool and tool assembly

Create, Optimize & Validate Complex Milling Programs on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

• Reduce NC programming time
• Maximize machine tool utilization
• Create the NC tool path and do a quick 3D setup with Setup Wizard
• Identify potential machine-tool kinematic issues during toolpath computation and automatically correct errors
• Provides automatic association of prismatic machining features with part design
• Offers a full set of high-end strategies from roughing to finishing
• Identify potential issues earlier in the process with advanced simulation capability
• Offers seamless generation of APT source and NC Code ISO format

Create, Optimize and Validate Advanced Multi-axis Milling and Turning Programs

• Optimizes the machining tool path with a channel opening with enhanced adaptive concentric milling
• Create the NC tool path and do quick 3D setup
• Offers a full set of high-end strategies from roughing to finishing
• Continue to use the capabilities of the Machining application when on-the-go and disconnected from the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform
• Provides dedicated operations that speed the programming of multi-cavity parts
• Includes instant update technology and advanced design change management
• Identify toolpath errors early in the process to shorten programming time
• Offers seamless generation of APT source and NC Code ISO format through the integrated post-processor execution engine

Create, Optimize and Validate Advanced Multi-axis Milling Programs

• Enables quick 3D setup and creation of NC tool path
• Manage CNC machines, accessories, tools, and tool assemblies
• Optimize tool path for high-speed or point-to-point machining and for a full set of axial operations
• Provides a unique approach to global and automatic programming of multi-cavity parts
• Identify potential kinematic issues during tool path computation and automatically correct the tool path when errors are found
• Increase productivity from Instant Update Technology and advanced design change management
• Compute volume of gouges in the workpiece with powerful simulation capabilities for toolpath validation

Create, Optimize and Validate Prismatic Milling and Turning Programs

• Improved usability to define lathe area
• Offers a full set of high-end turning operations for efficient programming of turning and mill-turn machines
• Provides quick toolpath verification and editing of individual operations or the complete program
• Provides powerful simulation capabilities for tool path validation
• Define machining processes as dedicated templates and store in a catalog for re-use
• Offers seamless generation of APT source and NC Code ISO format

Program 2.5 Axis Milling Machines

• Easily re-use an existing program and apply it to a symmetrical part of the opposite hand
• Enables quick 3D setup and creation of NC tool path
• Manage CNC machines, accessories, tools, and tool assemblies
• Automatically recognizes the prismatic machining features of the product design
• Create and optimize 2.5-axis milling, drilling and probing operations
• Provides powerful simulation capabilities for tool path validation
• Define machining processes as dedicated templates and store in a catalog for re-use
• Offers seamless generation of APT source and NC Code ISO format

Define Plant Layouts

• Use pre-defined resource types to categorize and organize resources
• Import and extract 2D drawings enabling resources to be snapped into defined positions
• Select and edit ready-to-use parametric resources from a catalog
• Choose ready-to-use non-parametric resources from a catalog
• Position a resource easily and accurately in the immersive 3D environment

Define, Optimize and Validate Process Plans

• Browse, locate and edit the objects in the PPR tree with the PPR Spreadsheet Editor
• Unload PPR Objects from the authoring session
• Author and manage manufacturing process plans with easy-to-use interface
• Automatically generate an initial process structure based on a structure definition from the product designer
• View and define operations in a graph with System Editor
• Provides 3D view of any modification applied to the assembly sequence
• Easily check the completeness and any impact on the process planning data
• Balance operations across systems based on a given cycle time
• Plan multiple product models on a single line

Securely Access Your Manufacturing Data Anytime, Anywhere

• An easily deployed, easily scaled web-based solution for non-engineering users anywhere
• Provides collaboration with both external and internal stakeholders
• Securely navigate configured manufacturing data with a web browser
• Retrieve or attach supporting documents
• Control viewing levels with simple expand and collapse  

Assembly Process Simulation for Producibility Analysis

• View and share the product in its assembled state in 3D with other project stakeholders
• Easily edit and modify trajectory paths
• See the product buildup, operation by operation, in the resource context
• Define and store assembly simulation scenarios
• Provides interference detection during simulation of the assembly process
• Create and define simulations of specific activities
• Design in simulation context, and stop and switch to a design application
• Perform swept-volume analysis of part trajectories during simulation replay

Simulation-based Markup and Collaboration

• Intuitive interface makes playing a simulation as easy as watching a video
• Perform system verification with step-through visualization 
• Users can activate or deactivate analysis probes, including static and dynamic clash detection, measure, 2D or 3D section, motion traces and data readouts. They can also review the persisted results of the various simulation probes. 
• Provides review tools to create slides, add 2D/3D text and annotations, measure items or distances and section the geometry, for accurate analysis and information sharing
• Enables instant collaboration for participants to share any review information in real time

Simulate Arc Welding Robots

• Upload integration to the simulation and process plan
• Generate and modify geometry-based arc weld trajectories
• Automatically calculates the optimal joint values of the workpiece positioning device
• Optimize robot’s motion by computing standard motion parameters along a robot trajectory
• Create a swept volume of the robot or the tooling based on the motion in the robot task
• Supports advanced logic and I/O in device programs to create input and output signals between robots and other devices
• Rapidly generate seam search trajectories using standard patterns and controller-specific constraints

Simulate and Validate Industrial Robot Behavior

• Calculate interference zones and interlocks in multi-robot workcells
• Easily create, modify, and save the states of simulation
• Debug the simulation of multiple resources, making it easier to locate errors
• Use the latest dual-arm robot models added to the DELMIA Robot Library
• Supports advanced logic and I/O in the simulation by allowing users to create input and output signals between robots and other devices
• Automatically optimize a robot’s motion by computing standard motion parameters such as turn numbers, arm configuration, gantry positions and rail values along a robot trajectory
• Create a swept volume of the robot or the tooling based on the motion in the robot task
• Use Realistic Robot Simulation I (RRS-I) for increased simulation accuracy
• Offers tools that allow the user to easily position robots in a reachable position while considering all of the robot’s tasks

Simulate Robot Behavior Using Native Robot Controller Software

• Extremely accurate robot simulations
• Simulate with production I/O and logic
• Program the virtual robot with a virtual teach pendant
• Simulate and validate native-language robot programs
• Supports hardware-in-the-loop simulation

Import and Export Robot Programs

• Upload and download robot programs from Fanuc RJ/TPE; Motoman/Yaskawa; Nachi; Kawasaki; Panasonic; Daihen; ABB RAPID S4C/S4C+; C5; Kuka, and Durr
• Provides support of Denso robots for offline programming
• Use the new native Robot Language editing capabilities
• Easily adapt translators to custom requirements using VB.Net
• Translate production ready programs for any robot application
• Program using the robot’s native controller language
• Improved collaboration between programmers and designers

Create and Simulate Robotic Workcells with Spot Welding and Drilling & Riveting Capabilites

• Visualize individual or groups of fasteners with enhanced rivet implementation
• Support drilling and riveting processes and advanced logic programming instructions through its easy-to-use teach-pendant interface
• Simulate multiple coordinated robots where a robot follows a path on a part that is being manipulated by another robot
• Automatically optimizes a robot’s motion by computing standard motion parameters
• Simulate robot tasks using the motion control software found in the real robot controller
• Choose the right robot and weld gun with analysis tools
• Easily simulate mutliple robots in parallel, analyzing and determining the reachability of any spot weld by all robots in the workcell
• Determine if the design changes impact the existing robot program with automatic robot path updates

Simulate, Program, Validate and Optimize Robot Surface Processes

• Easily edit the surface trajectory and redefine the start position with enhanced editing capabilities
• Toggle the spray gun on or off through the definition of a plane, the defined distance from a motion operation, or a prescribed time from a motion operation
• Accurate surface based programming for multiple robot applications
• Provides graphic representation of material deposition
• Simulate with Robot Line Tracking
• Concurrent robot simulation between multiple users
• Simulation that eliminates programming errors and rework
• Create, simulate and validate robot tasks in the manufacturing context

Create Virtual Models of Manufacturing Equipment

• Create virtual additive machines
• Provides single access to all applications in a unified navigational interface across the entire 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Discover issues such as interferences, travel limits, and inadequate reachability early in the design cycle
• Rapidly create a working kinematic device from an assembly of parts with a limited set of clicks and intuitive command
• Share data seamlessly across the extended enterprise

Simulate and Validate Mechanical Device Behavior

• Create and validate device tasks in the manufacturing context
• Enables best possible understanding of how motion variables will impact the task definition needed to support the manufacturing process in various environments
• Define device tasks concurrently
• Find and resolve Design for Assembly (DFA) and Design for Manufacturing (DFM) issues early
• Supports collaboration throughout the extended enterprise

View Online Touch-enable Work Instructions

• Uses published work instructions for job familiarization and training
• Supports thousands of concurrent users for an ideal medium for training workers in production processes
• Provides 2D and 3D views of each operation with review capability
• Provides a web-based widget technology with simple menu navigation for fast, easy deployment
• Customizable to to your manufacturing environment
• Touch compliant for tablet use, enabling work instructions to be viewed anywhere

Calculate Operation Times Using Corporate or Industry Standards

• Display images in data cards
• Assign times for planned manual operations using standard time measurement data cards such as MTM 1, MTM 2, UAS, and SAM
• Easily create customized data cards
• Utilize company standard times
• Re-use corporate best practices
• Considers value added and non-value added tasks

Create Configured 3D Work Instructions

• Create detailed operations with work instructions
• Author work instructions based on a configured engineering and manufacturing data set using the current state of the 3D environment
• Provides ability to enrich instructions with documents to describe the planner’s intent in detail
• Capture the state of the virtual model and the 3D environment, and automatically attach to the work instruction
• Manage best-practice work instructions and organize them in catalogs for quick retrieval and reuse
• Generate HTML-based shop floor work instructions and preview them for validation before exporting them
• Create work instructions and easily migrate them from legacy systems into the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
• Author work instructions using Enterprise Knowledge Language scripts

Share DELMIA Planning Data with Production and DELMIA Apriso Execution

• View product buildup operation-by-operation
• Create and distribute a view of the product buildup of each operation
• Publish 3D work instructions in 2D graphical view
• Create a flat 2D graphical view of 3D work instructions that have been authored in DELMIA Manufacturing Work Instructions
• Distribute work instructions across the shop floor electronically for immediate viewing, embellishment and execution

Early Validation with Virtual Workers for a Safer Workplace

• Add choreography events to the simulation and play them back
• Create, apply and delete data library elements
• Save costs with early integration of human factors in product or workplace design
• Build common actions and activities
• Capture and reuse basic skills or complex tasks
• Provides associativity for automatic layout updates
• Manipulate manikins easier and define the way manikins reach and grasp
• Provides push, pull and carry analysis
• Detect risks with rapid upper limb assessment
• Customize field of vision with manikin vision assessment