Siemens Digital Industries Software and EOS North America today announced an expansion of their partnership that can help improve efficiency, profitability and increase adoption of industrialized additive manufacturing. This agreement enables EOS North America, the leading technology provider for industrial 3D printing of metal and polymer, to resell Siemens software solutions for additive manufacturing (AM) with its machines. This can provide customers with build preparation and optimization, as well as connectivity to critical upstream design and downstream production processes.
“The ability to offer our customers a combination of Siemens’ AM software with EOS machines is an important step in industrializing additive manufacturing for high volume production,” said Andrew Snow, senior vice president of EOS North America. “We want to make sure that our customers can print their first part as successfully today as they can their ten thousandth part tomorrow. That means our machines have to go beyond build prep to connect with the entire end-to-end AM process. This new agreement with Siemens will help to achieve this and we look forward to working with Siemens as a reseller of its AM solutions. ”
In addition to integrating EOS’s order and process management software EOSPRINT 2 into Siemens’ NX ™ software, EOS will begin offering NX AM Build Preparation and its AM Build Optimizer software for parts orientation and support structure optimization for customers of metal additives to resell. The combined capabilities of these solutions can give EOS customers more confidence that they have prepared their 3D printed parts in a way that will best achieve their proper printing goals the first time. In addition, the combination of EOS and Siemens solutions will enable EOS customers to leverage other Siemens capabilities across the digital AM thread, including design for additive, topology optimization, construction process simulation, material development and durability analysis, design validation, planning and execution, process automation , Performance monitoring and product lifecycle management.
Siemens and EOS have a long-standing partnership for the further development of industrialized additive manufacturing, which began in 2016 when EOS integrated its EOSPRINT software into Siemens’ NX software, and was expanded in 2018 when Siemens automation and drive technology for the new EOS M 300 -Series delivered and machines of the EOS P 500 series. This new agreement further expands this partnership by enabling EOS North America to offer Siemens end-to-end industrial additive manufacturing products as part of its Xcelerator ™ portfolio of software and services.
“With this agreement, EOS and Siemens can significantly improve the efficiency and profitability of the AM factory,” added Aaron Frankel, vice president of the AM program for Siemens Digital Industries Software. “Instead of just providing build prep for a single machine, customers can now use a unified process to transform the design and downstream to do high volume AM factory production. This uniform process is of crucial importance for industrialized AM. “
The difference between the end-to-end additive design-through-manufacturing environment from Siemens and selective alternative solutions is that each phase of AM development is linked via a single associative digital thread. “Point solutions add time-consuming and error-prone inefficiencies to the AM workflow,” said Frankel. “Customers often have to pause their process to convert data for different software environments. And the problems with this approach get worse with every change that is required. “
Sintavia LLC, a developer and additive manufacturer of critical thermal components for the aerospace, defense and aerospace industries, has an end-to-end additive manufacturing workflow using the NX AM printer driver for EOSPRINT. developed and NX AM Build Prep and AM Build Optimizer. They also recently purchased two M4K-4 printers which are stretched versions of the EOS M400-4 printer. “This move by EOS North America to integrate Siemens AM software more closely into its 3D printing systems fits in perfectly with our goal of creating a seamlessly automated digital AM thread from design to production,” said Brian Neff, CEO of Sintavia . “If we want to make additive manufacturing a truly industrialized process, we have to make sure that the entire workflow is as efficient as possible. A strong technical integration between EOS and Siemens software not only helps with build preparation, optimization and 3D printing, but also enables a closer connection to all other phases of the AM value chain. ”
As part of the reseller agreement, Siemens Digital Industries Software will train the EOS Additive Minds technical advisory team in the NX AM and AM Build Optimizer software. Additive Minds, on the other hand, trains EOS customers in how to use Siemens’ AM solutions. The two organizations have also agreed on a comprehensive framework for providing in-depth technical support.
For more information, see siemens.com/additive/aa-e11.
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