Siemens, a technology company and leader in automation and digitalisation, and
DMG Mori (a global supplier of machine tools for turning, milling, and grinding, as well as for additive manufacturing) recently presented the first ‘end-to-end digital twin for machine tool machining’ on Siemens Xcelerator. Based on the ‘Digital Native’ CNC Sinumerik One, the offering includes the digital twin of the controller, the customer-specific DMG Mori machine tool, and the workpiece.
Siemens says a digital twin for machines enables ‘groundbreaking improvements’ for meeting the challenges of sustainability, flexibility, and time-to-market. “The digital twin not only helps prevent programming errors that cause scrap and damage to the real machine but also enables up to 40% faster production ramp-up, significantly reducing the energy consumption of the real machine. It also helps minimise unproductive machine times by up to 75%, because the testing and running-in of programs is moved from the real machine to the virtual world.”
Achim Peltz, who is CEO of Siemens Motion Control and responsible for Siemens’ Motion Control business, added: “With this partnership, Siemens and DMG Mori are demonstrating on Siemens Xcelerator the opportunities that the joint and end-to-end use of digitalisation offers for productivity, speed, flexibility and future viability. This applies to the machine users as well as in the core to the machine tool manufacturers. Siemens Xcelerator’s approach of bringing different partners together in an ecosystem for the benefit of all is impressively demonstrated by the partnership between Siemens and DMG Mori.
“The open digital business platform Siemens Xcelerator creates a powerful ecosystem of partners to jointly accelerate the digital transformation, each tailored to customers’ specific business goals. Siemens Xcelerator consists of a selected portfolio of products, services, and solutions, as well as a marketplace.”