MediaService Industry News From chocolate to special-purpose trucks and data management: The September issue of the MediaService Industries comes to you with the latest news and features from the world of drives and automation. We learn about new data management software for process analysis technology with Simatic Sipat Version 5.1, which al- lows users to observe and monitor the quality of their products in real time during manufacture. On a sweeter note, we hear about cooperation be- tween industry and research for cus- tomized chocolate production, which has enabled a picking system to put together individual chocolate assort- ments. This month’s issue also in- cludes a report on support by PLM Software for the smart production of semi-conductors and LED manufac- turing equipment for the chip industry. And finally, PLM Software is also used in the manufacture of custom truck su- perstructures, not only speeding up the design phase but improving prod- uct engineering and creating a clear competitive advantage. Content PRODUCTS 02 Data Management APPLICATIONS 03 Chocolate heaven 05 Smart manufacturing 07 Truck superstructures to order Siemens MediaService September 2018 www.siemens.com
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MediaService Industry News
From chocolate to special-purpose trucks and data management: The September issue of the MediaService Industries comes to you with the latest news and features from the world of drives and automation. We learn about new data management software for process analysis technology with Simatic Sipat Version 5.1, which al-lows users to observe and monitor the quality of their products in real time during manufacture. On a sweeter note, we hear about cooperation be-tween industry and research for cus-
tomized chocolate production, which has enabled a picking system to put together individual chocolate assort-ments. This month’s issue also in-cludes a report on support by PLM Software for the smart production of semi-conductors and LED manufac-turing equipment for the chip industry. And finally, PLM Software is also used in the manufacture of custom truck su-perstructures, not only speeding up the design phase but improving prod-uct engineering and creating a clear competitive advantage.
Content
PRODUCTS
02 Data Management
APPLICATIONS
03 Chocolate heaven
05 Smart manufacturing
07 Truck superstructures to order
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Simatic Sipat version 5.1 - the new data management software for Process Analytical Technology (PAT).
Nuremberg, Germany. Siemens is in-novating its data management soft-ware for Process Analytical Technolo-gy (PAT) with Simatic Sipat version 5.1, which allows users to monitor and control the quality of their products in real-time during manufacturing. The latest version features a web-based user- friendly Dataminer application transforming massive data amounts into tabular and graphical data infor-mation. Moreover, the new charting capabilities deliver an instant view on data correlation, shortening end user investigation time. Simatic Sipat 5.1 helps companies in the pharmaceuti-cal, food & beverage and fine chemi-cals industries to shorten time to market and improve product quality.
With the web-enabled Simatic Sipat Dataminer application, data from mul-tiple Sipat data sources and Sipat ver-sions can easily be collected. The in-tuitive search capabilities by the filter mechanism and the instant preview of the query results in a comprehensive data retrieval process. Moreover, by applying the data alignment capabili-
Data ManagementAdvanced Data Management for Process Analytical Technology
ties on this data the end user will have large data volumes correctly aligned within a matter of a few sec-onds and an in-depth data analysis created in tabular or graphical for-mat. The Dataminer delivers a global view on local data.
Additionally, the graphical object of the Dataminer delivers capabilities to zoom into parts of the graph, to com-pare data points over multiple and different graph types in order to give more insight to the end user. With each dataset plotted on the chart, the meta data (e.g. collector settings, diagnostic info, active alarms) can be consulted. These new charting capa-bilities (e.g. Spectral Heat Map) de-livers an instant view on data corre-lation, shortening investigation time.
About Sipat
Simatic Sipat is a scalable and mod-ular software solution that enables companies to extend their quality as-surance activities on a step-by-step basis within the scope of the PAT ini-
tiative. With PAT, product develop-ment and production processes can be monitored, controlled and opti-mized by measuring the critical-to-quality attributes (CQA) of raw mate-rials, process materials and procedures. This continuous monitor-ing of product quality can prevent de-viations from specifications and therefore reduce production costs. In addition, it allows for Real Time Re-lease Testing, so quality inspections on final products can be reduced or completely eliminated.
The ultimate personal chocolate assortment: A pick system collates individual customer orders placed using Twitter.
Buchs/Canton of Aargau, Switzer-land. Although it’s been a buzzword for some time now, “Industrie 4.0” re-mains little more than an abstract concept to many. In a bid to make the term more tangible to students, planners, production managers and so on, the Swiss chocolate manufac-turer Chocolat Frey AG (Chocolat Frey), automation specialist Autexis Holding AG (Autexis) and the Univer-sity of Applied Sciences Northwest-ern Switzerland (FHNW) recently launched a shared project: a pick system which puts together individu-ally selected chocolate assortments. To implement the system, the part-ners opted to use products and solu-tions from the Siemens portfolio. The pick system allows the different fac-ets of Industrie 4.0 to be clearly illus-trated and also maps out the entire value chain.
We’re all familiar with those minia-ture chocolate thins called naps, set out to tempt us in surgeries or on
Chocolate heavenIndustry and research cooperate to enable customized chocolate production
trade fair booths. Annoyingly, it usu-ally seems that all your favorites have already been picked out of the bowl. A solution to this age-old prob-lem has been devised by Chocolat Frey in the form of a new pick sys-tem. Customers can order an assort-ment of their own personal chocolate favorites from Chocolat Frey over Twitter at any time. Their order is then entered into the system’s pro-duction program fully automatically with no human intervention at all. The individual assortments are put together and packaged for shipping entirely by a robot.
Integrated solution
All those involved pulled together to implement the project. “Even our professors took a hand in the pro-gramming, which is something of a rare event,” recalls Markus Krack, Head of Technology Transfer FITT at the FHNW. Right from the start, only Siemens components were consid-
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The jointly developed pick system allows the different facets of Industrie 4.0 to be clearly illustrated and also maps out the entire val-ue chain.
Chocolat Frey AG, automation specialist Au-texis Holding AG and the University of Ap-plied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) jointly developed and implemented the pick system.
The project was implemented using Sie-mens solutions such as MindSphere as the platform for the Autexis apps, Simatic S7-1500 to control the robot and the TIA Portal V15 for engineering.
The system is operated using two Simatic KTP900F mobile panels from Siemens.
ered when it came to implementing the project. “We use MindSphere, the open Cloud eco system from Sie-mens, as the platform for our Autexis apps,” says Autexis owner Philippe Ramseier. The data gathered from sensors and actuators is transferred over MindConnect to MindSphere. The robots are controlled by a Simatic S7-1500 controller, and engineering takes place in the TIA (Totally Integrat-ed Automation) Portal V15. The pick system is operated using two Simatic KTP900F mobile panels. There are plans in place to generate a digital twin of the plant, which will initially learn from the real world. The medi-um-term goal is to create a cyber-
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physical system which will enable mutual learning between the virtual and real worlds, allowing new pro-duction processes to be digitally sim-ulated prior to commissioning and any potential errors detected and fixed in advance.
Clearly envisaged potential
While Chocolat Frey is currently using this production method for demonstra-tion purposes, the company does en-visage the potential it holds for cus-tomized mass production in the future. The system is currently being treated by Chocolat Frey as an innovation platform for process testing.
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ASM Pacific Technology Ltd. (ASM) is a world market leader in the production of semi-conductors and equipment used in the manufacture of LEDs for chip producers around the globe.
Shenzhen, China. ASM Pacific Technology Ltd. (ASM) produces semi-conductors and equipment used in the manufacture of LEDs (light-emitting diodes) for chip pro-ducers the world over. To create a closer link between computer-based design and production, and to re-duce engineering times, ASM has opted to use solutions from Siemens PLM Software. This decision has en-abled ASM to improve its manufac-turing efficiency and product quality by up 70 percent.
Like a great many other companies, world market leader ASM faces the challenge of engineering and manu-facturing increasingly complex prod-ucts within ever shorter manufactur-ing cycle times. To be sure of maintaining its position at the leading edge of the industry, ASM earkmarks ten percent of its profit every year for investment in product development. However, development was compro-mised in terms of speed and quality
Smart manufacturingNetworked design and manufacturing with Siemens PLM Software secures market lead
by the geographical separation of its design, development and production facilities. One difficulty encountered was the impossibility of transferring 3D product models directly into the manufacturing process due to incom-plete product information. The ex-change of data between computer-aided design (CAD) and manufacturing (CAM) was also time-consuming and difficult. The key to achieving an optimum production process was to implement digitaliza-tion using the NX software from the Siemens PLM Software solution port-folio.
Seamless link between CAD and CAM
“We began using NX CAM software from Siemens PLM Software in man-ufacturing factories in 2000,” recalls Chen Lizhi, Head of MIS Information and Telecommunications Technology at ASM. “We have deployed more than 100 suites in factories all over
ASM has addressed the challenge of devel-oping increasingly complex products within ever shorter manufacturing cycles by creating a close link between computer-aided design and manufacturing.
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The use of Siemens solutions has enabled ASM to increase its manufacturing efficiency and product quality by up to 70 percent.
ASM is using NX software from the Siemens PLM Software solution portfolio to shape its digital transformation.
the world.” The digital transformation using the Siemens solution has been a resounding success, enabling ASM to raise its productivity to a whole new level. The most clearly evident effect was the trouble free link creat-ed between design and manufactur-ing. ASM achieves this by using the NX feature FBM (feature-based ma-chining) which allows NX CAM (com-puter-aided manufacturing) to auto-matically read product and manufacturing information (PMI), tol-erances, information about surface machining and a whole host of other data stored in the 3D model. The sys-tem is also able to use this informa-tion as the basis for automatic calcu-lation of the optimum machining method. The simulation and verifica-tion function integrated in NX CAM also reduces potential sources of er-
PLM Software
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NXwww.siemens.com/nx
ror, as the ASM engineers no longer need to carry out physical tests.
70 percent quality and efficiency improvement
“NX CAM’s feature-based machining enables us to truly experience the seamless connection between CAD and CAM, enabling manufacturing to respond more quickly to design changes, thus significantly reducing the time of responding to user re-quirements and reducing time-to-market,” says Hu Dewen, senior CAD/CAM manufacturing manager at ASM. “Our statistical results show that feature-based machining and PMI have improved the production efficiency and quality of ASM by 70 percent, thus saving a lot of valuable time.”
The Siemens solution enables GIF Modul to shorten the design phase, and at the same time improve its competitive standing and product development process.
Hungarian truck specialist GIF Modul Kft. (GIF) develops and builds trucks with special superstructures for the automotive industry, as well as heavy-duty cranes.
Aszód, Hungary. The Hungarian truck manufacturer GIF Modul Kft. (GIF) develops and builds trucks with special superstructures for the auto-motive industry. The company also enjoys a reputation as a leading manufacturer of heavy-duty cranes. Among the greatest challenges faced by GIF Modul are designing complex moving components and finding so-lutions to individual customer re-quirements. This prompted GIF Mod-ul to implement Solid Edge from Siemens PLM Software. This solu-tion enables the company to shorten the design phase and at the same time improve its competitive standing and product engineering process.
The engineering and construction of special vehicles with lifting equip-ment such as heavy-duty cranes is a complex matter. The reliability and usability of the finished truck can only be guaranteed if the specifica-tions for the vehicle, the superstruc-
Truck superstructures to orderCustomized special-purpose trucks produced with Siemens PLM Software
ture and the lifting equipment are precisely in synch, creating a single cohesive unit. This is why GIF devel-ops and builds all the components in-house. To ensure a lean, high-speed engineering process and en-able the implementation of specific customer requirements, GIF initially opted to implement the Solid Edge 2D Drafting Software from Siemens PLM Software. As the company start-ed work on a new project to design a winch involving a large number of moving parts, GIF Modul decided to upgrade its Solid Edge software package to include the 3D function. This brought about a tangible reduc-tion of the design workload.
Wide-ranging integrated functions
Once designed, parts can be used multiple times – which speeds up the entire process. It was important for GIF Modul to be able to quickly local-ize existing parts. Solid Edge makes
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Fast, simple implementation
“My concern was to implement the software quickly enough that we didn’t lose too much valuable time,” recalls Zoltan Imre, CEO (Chief Ex-ecutive Officer) at GIF. “We actually managed to design our new project with Solid Edge, and to manufacture the parts on time.” As well as speed-ing up its engineering time, Solid Edge has also allowed GIF Modul to cut delivery periods, resulting in in-creased customer satisfaction and a clear competitive advantage.
short work of this with its integrated product management capabilities, which allow engineers to quickly search for components designed in Solid Edge using either the file name or pre-defined properties. To design the truck subframes and platforms, the GIF engineers use the sheet metal and welding design capabilities of Sol-id Edge, which allows them to effort-lessly create sheet metal models on the basis of 2D drawings. The use of Synchronous Technology supports in-dependent editing of various func-tions.
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To enable the design of moving parts and address individual customer requirements, GIF Modul relies on Solid Edge from Sie-mens PLM Software.
In the field of customized truck production, the reliability and usability of the finished truck depend heavily on the optimum coor-dination of all the components.
The sheet metal and welding design capa-bilities of Solid Edge lighten the workload of engineers, particularly when it comes to de-signing the subframes and platforms.
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