Industrial Engineering

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

Program, simulate, and validate complex robot drilling and riveting systems in a 3D Virtual Factory context

• Simulate and validate complete drilling and riveting robotic systems to eliminate costly crashes and optimize the production rate
  Deliver accurate, production-ready robot programs while keeping robots in production with offline robot programming
• Enable simultaneous engineering in order to accelerate the start of production with offline robot programming
• Fully simulate the complete workcell, including PLC control logic by performing virtual commissioning

Program, simulate, and validate Robotic assembly systems in a 3D Virtual Factory context

• Simulate and validate complete robot spot welding and drill and riveting systems to eliminate costly crashes and optimize the production rate
• Deliver accurate, production-ready robot programs while keeping robots in production with offline robot programming
• Enable simultaneous engineering in order to accelerate the start of production with offline robot programming

Create and validate assembly and disassembly trajectories

• Enables creation and validation of assembly/disassembly trajectories
• Check assembly feasibility during product design
• Review detailed process planning  

Delivers the ability to easily develop collision-free part and assembly trajectories automatically using powerful algorithms

• Provides effective management of change between engineering design and manufacturing
• Define and validate your 3D layout and Manufacturing Process for new Product introduction by simulating various production scenarios to predict the production rate
• ​​Simulate and visualize material flow in an existing factory to identify bottlenecks
• Run "what if" simulations to optimize system performance and production rate with alternate routings, layouts and resource pooling strategies

Delivers the ability to easily develop collision-free part and assembly trajectories automatically

• Effective management of change between engineering design and manufacturing
• Define and validate your 3D layout and Manufacturing Process for new Product introduction by simulating various production scenarios to predict the production rate
• ​​Simulate and visualize material flow in an existing factory to identify bottlenecks
• Run "what if" simulations to optimize system performance & production rate with alternate routings, layouts and resource pooling strategies

Fast, easy, and efficient way to define your manufacturing assembly strategy and produce assembly drawings 

• Define manufacturing assembly strategy and produce assembly drawings based on your 3D Engineering Model data (resource/rule based definitions)
• Ensures the definition of Manufacturing Item Structure is mandatory for all downstream applications
• Helps to come up with a solid definition, making it easy to consume the defined items in drawings
• Bases the data of the work preparers (structure, piping, electrical) on the Manufacturing Item Definition

Define, validate and offline program body-in-white robot systems in the Virtual Factory 

• Keep robots in production, eliminate costly robot and tooling crashes, and accelerate start of production
• Simulate and validate complete robot spot welding and material handling systems to eliminate costly crashes
• Deliver accurate, production-ready robot programs while keeping robots in production with offline robot programming
• Enable simultaneous engineering in order to accelerate the start of production with offline robot programming
• Fully simulate the complete workcell, including PLC control logic by performing virtual commissioning

Validate and optimize the body-in-white robotics processes with robotics simulation and validation in a Virtual Factory context

• Perform robot reachability studies to ensure planned fasteners are feasible
• Reduce engineering time and optimize the workload balance to increase the production rate
• Complete and validate the full robotics workcell before off line programming with extended capabilities
• Minimize the number of weldguns to reduce tooling cost with automated tool analysis

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

Simulate Part Distortion During the 3D Printing Process

• Intuitive and simplified interface tailored to non-expert users
• Offers SIMULIA capabilities to run a physically realistic thermo-mechanical simulation of a 3D part
• Provides a virtual environment to assess and optimize the 3Dprinting process and ensure that parts can be property manufactured the first time
• Uses the Eigenstrain Simulation for quick estimates
• Reduces the gap between as-designed and as-produced

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

Define and validate tooling, machines, and layouts to build the virtual factory

• The virtual factory approach enables manufacturers to reduce capital expenditures, accelerate production ramp-up and ultimately increase productivity
• Enables collaboration to create the factory layout and export it for build
• Create and optimize all the mechanical devices used in manufacturing simulation with advanced tools
• Allow to import 3D Point Cloud and simulate inside realistic simulation behavior

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, simulate, and validate complex NC drilling and riveting programs for aerospace industry

• Increase manufacturing production by detecting machine, robot and tooling problems early in the product development process
• Increase collaboration between Designers and NC Programmers to improve engineering efficiency
• Simulate programs in machine/robot environment to detect and prevent possible errors or collision

Define, validate and offline program robot welding and sealant deposition systems in the Virtual Factory

• Simulate and validate complete welding, sealant deposition and handling robotics systems to eliminate costly crashes and optimize the production rate
• Deliver accurate, production-ready robot programs while keeping robots in production with offline robot programming
• Enable simultaneous engineering in order to accelerate the start of production with offline robot programming

Validate and optimize the robot arc welding or sealant deposition simulation and validation

• Simulate and validate complete robotic arc welding, gluing and sealant deposition systems to eliminate costly crashes and optimize the production rate
• Deliver accurate, production-ready robot programs while keeping robots in production with offline robot programming
• Fully simulate the complete workcell, including PLC control logic by performing virtual commissioning

Factory Simulation Engineer provides a Process Engineer an easy to-use environment to study the dynamical behavior

• Study the dynamical behavior of scenarios and save money thanks to make the right decisions
• Validate your 3D layout and Manufacturing Process for new Product introduction by performing what if scenarios and monitoring KPIs
• Early detection of trouble spots/bottle necks to optimize system performance & production rate with alternate routings

Create, validate and optimize the fastener process plan in a Virtual Factory context

• Reduces engineering time and optimize the workload balance to increase the production rate
• Enables collaboration
• Optimize resource utilization with the fastener line balancing and tool analysis
• Automated tool analysis helps minimize the number of tools to reduce tooling cost

Create and Reconcile Assembly Fastener Plans

• Shows the reachability of the fasteners for better visual feedback
• 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

Efficient rule-driven creation of deliverables for manufacturing of fluid systems

• Makes it possible for you to almost fully automate creation of production drawings and other data required for the production like tube bending machines
• Improve delivery times thanks to rule driven automation of work preparation deliverables
• Effective management of change between engineering design and manufacturing
• Reduce scrap and procurement cost
• Reduce labor hours and cost

Define Manufacturing Assembly Plans for Heavy Industries

• Allows user to update revisions to deliverables, such as BOM, XML, drawings, and more
• Users can open whole products without their representations
• 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

• Allows user to retrieve pre-defined operations from a template for a given manufactured item
• 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

• Supports separated bevel views of workshop documents
• Allows the plate fab sketch to be more readily usable by the workshop
• 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

• Provides AGV simulation for warehouse logistics or supplying products on a final assembly line
• Helps to optimize logistics performance by increasing productivity and reducing operating costs
• Offers tighter integration with Process Planning
• 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

Easy, fast and efficient creation of any type of mechanical device along with its kinematics

• Create all the mechanical devices used in a manufacturing setting, from simple clamps to NC machine tools and 3D Printers
• Allows programmers to define, optimize, and validate their programs
• Validate and optimize mechanical equipment designs to mitigate costly errors and accelerate start of production

Easily Define the Manufactured Item Structure

• New "Change Impact Management" command provides the user with a list of all impacted items and suggested actions
• Provides a new automatic update which allows the user to update the whole manufacturing BOM for all impacted Manufacturing Items
• 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

Define and validate the fabrication process in a 3D virtual environment and consume and track all specifications inputs 

• Accelerate start of production and improve first time quality and deliver all necessary information for shop floor execution
• Increase manufacturing agility and reduce time-to-market by defining and validating the assembly process in the virtual world before start of production
• Leverage the power of model based planning to improve the speed and accuracy of incorporating engineering and manufacturing change to the assembly lines

Efficient creation of manufacturing BOM and process plans directly from engineering design data

• Allows you to optimize production activities before execution starts with 3D virtual build-up and assembly simulation of process plans
• Ensures optimal and efficient production due to authoring and delivery of visual work instructions
• Reduce manufacturing costs thanks to full digital continuity between design and manufacturing
• Decrease number of problems found during manufacturing phase as a result of precise virtual validation (4D Planning)
• Reduce scrap and procurement cost, reduce labor hours and cost through authoring and publication of accurate and detailed 3D Work Instructions

Manufacturing Process and Resource Project Administration

• New "Replace by Proposal Command" provides the user with suggested replacement candidates when replacing Manufacturing Items
• New "Manage Inconsistent Manufactured Item-Product Scope" command provides update actions proposals based on customizable behavior
• New partial loading command speeds up the loading process
• 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

Manage product driven change process

• Provides highly efficient browsing
• Enables authoring of Manufactured Product structures (as planned) 

Review and assess your Manufacturing BOM, Process Plans and Work Instructions.

• Browse manufacturing items and process structures in a web user interface to assess completion and accuracy
• Review work instructions to ensure clarity and accuracy before releasing to the shop floor  
• Review 3D annotated issues raised by other stakeholders to quickly resolve potential problems  

Prepare and compute the manufacturing process for Material Deposition & Material Extrusion in AM

• Ensure print success by re-using company know-how for process definition
• Optimize print time & material usage by validating your process before to print it on machine or robot
• Reduce production cost by using a solution for additive manufacturing that work seamlessly across design, manufacturing and simulation

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

Full NC program validation based on NC Code (ISO Code/ G-Code) Machine Simulation for Milling, Turning & Riveting

• Complete Milling solution for complex parts including specific cycles dedicated to hard material strategies to reduce machining time
• Leverage the power of the digital continuity between Designers, Process planners & NC Programmers
• Share the same data in a single environment

Enable efficient creation and validation machining processes to program NC lathe and mill-turn machines

• Provides a complete Milling and Turning solution for complex parts including specific cycles dedicated to hard material strategies to reduce machining time
• Increase collaboration between Designers & NC Programmers to improve engineering efficiency
• Validate NC programs in 3D to detect and prevent possible machining errors

Dedicated solution to machine complex parts on a multi-axis milling machine or robots with advanced operations

• Provides complete milling solution for complex parts including specific cycles dedicated to hard material strategies to reduce machining time
• Leverage the power of the digital continuity between Designers, Process Planners and NC Programmers sharing the same data in a single environment

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

• New tool lift strategy keeps the tool cutting the material while avoiding collision between the part and the tool shank or the tool holder
• 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

Enable efficient creation and validation machining processes to program NC lathe and mill-turn machines

• Reduce programming time and errors to make machined part creation lean and efficient
• Complete 2.5 and 3 axis Milling solution for Molds, Dies & Stampings, including specific cycles dedicated to hard material strategies to reduce machining time
• Increase collaboration between Designers & NC Programmers to improve engineering efficiency
• Validate NC programs in 3D to detect and prevent possible machining errors

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

• New functionality enables NC users to perform machine simulation with D’Andrea head
• 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

Enable creation of machining processes to program and simulate a lathe or mill-turn machine including prismatic milling operations

• Complete Milling and Turning solution for complex parts including specific cycles dedicated to hard material strategies to reduce machining time
• Increase collaboration between Designers & NC Programmers to improve engineering efficiency
• Validate NC programs in 3D to detect and prevent possible machining errors

Create, Optimize and Validate Prismatic Milling and Turning Programs

• Improved interface allows the user to define lathe area & extend or reduce the area in any direction or tangent to the profile
• New functionality enables NC users to perform machine simulation with D’Andrea head
• 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
• 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

Create machining processes with part-to-machine, stock, cutters and tool assemblies

• Program and simulate a milling machine with 2.5 axis technology
• Enable creation of machining processes with part to machine, stock, cutters and tool assemblies

Program 2.5 Axis Milling Machines

• New application allows users to validate and program wire Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) processes
• Utilize new superior feature recognition to automate the machining of complex features
• 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

Enable CNC Machinist to create a NC Program dedicated to 3 axis machine & Wire EDM

• Create & validate 2.5 & 3 axis NC programs
• Create Wire EDM operations
• Keep strong associativity with design ensuring concurrent engineering
• Store your company know-how to create quickly new programs based on proven sequence of operations
• Validate NC programs with machine simulation to quickly detect accessibility and collision issues

Design Capabilities for Part Design

• Design and validate a part before printing
• Provides a full suite of powerful tools for designing and validating components
• Collaborate seamlessly in real-time on any project on the 3DExperience platform
• Choose between several features to prepare the printed part to supprot downstream applications
• Quickly transform 3D models into physical prototypes

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

Prepare and compute the manufacturing process for Powder Bed 3D Printer to reduce print time and wasted material

• Ensure print success by re-using company know-how for process definition
• Optimize print time and material usage by validating your process before to print it on 3D Printer
• Reduce production cost by using a solution for additive manufacturing that work seamlessly across design, manufacturing and simulation

Prepare, compute & simulate the manufacturing process for Powder Bed 3D Printer to reduce print time and wasted material

• Ensure print success by re-using company know-how for process definition
• Optimize print time and material usage by simulating your process before to print it on 3D Printer
• Reduce production cost by using a solution for additive manufacturing that work seamlessly across design, manufacturing and simulation

3D Interactive Environment to Optimize Powder Bed Fusion

• Save time and energy by archiving best practices for reuse
• Allows users to run a physically realistic thermo-mechanical simulation of the part
• Automatically optimize the part positions on the build tray to increase part production
• Obtain relative cost of additive materials and the time related to full process
• Validate the additive process virtually
• Identify or engineer the appropriate supports and type of machine used

Defines process plans along with allocation of resources and equipment

• Allocate resources and equipment fast and efficiently
• Define process plans easily
• Discover real world problems so risks are mitigated before your production starts
• Improve quality by reusing standard process templates
• Optimize cross-discipline process plan and production job orders
• Reduce time-to-market through efficient management of change
• Decrease number of problems found during manufacturing phase as a result of precise virtual validation (4D Planning)

Easy, fast and efficient definition of manufacturing assembly strategy and process plans 

• Enables easy, fast and efficient definition of your manufacturing assembly strategy, process plans
• Provides allocation of resources and equipment
• Ensures real-world problems will be discovered and risks being mitigated before construction starts with 3D virtual build-up relative to your time
• Offers reliable 4D (3D + Time) based MBOM, Process Planning and Process Simulation of at least the critical work packages and operations ensures to finish projects on time and budget

Create balanced process plans and optimize the workload balancing

• Optimize the workload balancing
• Ensures balanced process plans

Define, Optimize and Validate Process Plans

• New "Replace by Proposal" command provides the user with suggested replacement candidates when replacing Manufacturing Items
• New "Manage Inconsistent Manufactured Item-Product Scope" command provides the user some update actions proposals based on customizable behavior
• Allows users to overload or underload a workstation
• Displays and customizes attributes in view
• Flags all non-relevant items for manufacturing with a specific attribute value
• Browse, locate and edit the objects in the PPR tree with the PPR Spreadsheet Editor
• Unload PPR Objects from the authoring session
• Automatically generate an initial process structure based on a structure definition from the product designer
• 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

Efficient creation of manufacturing BOM, process plans and 3D work instructions

• 3D virtual build-up of your products
• Ensures real-world problems will be discovered before production starts
• Reduces cost by avoiding physical prototypes and shortens time to market
• Allows efficient creation of manufacturing BOM, process plans and 3D work instructions based on seamlessly connected engineering design data
• Increase manufacturing agility and reduce time-to-market by defining and documenting the manufacturing process in the virtual world before start of production
• Leverage the power of model based planning to improve the speed and accuracy of incorporating engineering and manufacturing change to the production lines

Design and validate robot handling systems in the Virtual Factory to keep robots in production

• Eliminate costly robot tooling crashes and accelerate start of production
• Allows you to design tooling and equipment of the robotics workcell
• Validate a complete robot handling systems to secure and accelerate production
• Ensure feasibility by designing and validating complete robotic handling systems before procuring expensive equipment
• Avoid costly collisions and minimize cycle time by simulating and optimizing robot programs
• Simulate to validate the handling of new products before introducing them into your production system

Simulate Arc Welding Robots

• Provides functionality to generate reports of the welding torch attitude
• 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

• Provides the capability to have the robot manipulate the product when it is articulated
• 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
• Offers tools that allow the user to easily position robots in a reachable position while considering all of the robot’s tasks

Import and Export Robot Programs

• Supports Staubli robots; compliments more than 20 Staubli robot models in the DELMIA Robot Library
• 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

Compute and Optimize Collision-free Robot Paths

• Plan and optimize a robot path for any industry
• Compute collision-free paths
• Input known positions, such as part pick-up or drop off
• Compute the fastest, most economical route, saving both motion and time

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

• New functionality supports robotic shot peening applications
• Allows the user to model shot-peen-specific attributes and visualize the surface exposure to the shot peening process
• Provides the capability to apply user specific approach and depart strategies for robot paths
• 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

Define and Visualize Your Service and Maintenance Processes and Resources

• Address the Service Engineering domain in terms of workflow and model
• Manage the service Bill of Materials with up-to-date data
• Leverage up-to-date engineering data to build maintenance task activities
• Plan and manage service resources
• Capitalize and re-use maintenance practices across the enterprise

Create Virtual Models of Manufacturing Equipment

• Allows the user to model more conveyance devices to address more diverse scenarios for simulation and validation
• 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

Efficient automatic rule-driven preparation of deliverables for manufacturing of marine engineering structures such as panels and profiles

• Model-based approach provides capabilities for adjusting preparations for features such as margin, openings, end cuts, shrinkage, and bending curves
• Improve delivery times by generating rule-driven work preparation deliverables
• Accelerate time-to-market with efficient management of engineering changes

Define, validate and offline program robotic painting systems in the Virtual Factory

• Keep robots in production improve the quality of the painting process and accelerate start of production
• Simulate and validate complete robot painting or shot-peening robot systems to eliminate costly crashes
• Offline program robots to keep the real robots in production longer and improve surface finishing process quality
• Enables simultaneous engineering in order to accelerate the start of production due to offline robot programming

Calculate Operation Times Using Corporate or Industry Standards

• Now supports the MODAPTS standard for time calculations which broadens usage in the automotive and clothing industries
• Contains an extra field for local language
• Apply a status and graduate the status along the lifecycle of the analysis
• 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

Optimization of existing and (re-) design of new workplaces based on proven scientific standards to precisely predict operation durations

• Precisely predict operation durations for all processes in which human workers are involved
• Save money and help to reduce ergonomics risks on the workforce
• Calculate operation times based on numerous supported time standards like MTM, MOST, MODAPTS, etc.
• Rebalance the workload for each worker to improve the workload balance, anticipate and reduce fatigue on the human workforce, and maximize the production rate
• Optionally implement and calculate operation times based on your proprietary corporate time measurement methodologies

Simulate Robot Behavior Using Native Robot Controller Software

• Includes new beam sensor using beam as a component
• 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

Define visual Work Instructions for any process, from simple assembly prototyping to complex manufacturing by leveraging 3D product models

• Improve work instruction quality by using up-to-date 3D engineering and manufacturing data for authoring
• Smart functions provide easy dress up and formatting to provide self-sufficient visual work instructions
• Manage standard work instructions in catalog to accelerate authoring
• Easily maintain work instructions by managing the impact of changes to the product design or manufacturing process

Create Configured 3D Work Instructions

• New Magnifier capability command allows the user to select an area to zoom into using a trap box, creating zoomed-in image of the trap box
• Input the distance the parts should be exploded for easy organization in exploded assembly
• 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
• 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