Siemens PLM Software Launches NX 6 Software
May 20 2008 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Design Freedom with Breakthrough Synchronous Technology and
Advanced Simulation Deliver Greater Powers BOSTON, May 20
/PRNewswire/ -- Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of Siemens
Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of
product lifecycle management (PLM) products and services, today
announced the release of NX(TM) 6 digital product development
software that provides features driven from Siemens PLM Software's
recently announced synchronous technology. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070904/SIEMENSLOGO ) Siemens
PLM Software made the announcement in conjunction with its annual
industry analyst event that begins today in Boston. "NX 6 delivers
on the breakthrough in design productivity we announced last
month," said Joan Hirsch, vice president of NX product development,
Siemens PLM Software. "We've integrated synchronous technology into
the NX comprehensive toolset, delivering major enhancements to
design, simulation and manufacturing. This release enhances our
strong momentum and the market share growth NX is experiencing."
"Our implementation of NX is realizing productivity improvements
that have exceeded our targets and overall we're seeing a 20
percent improvement in the CAD operation efficiency," said Keigo
Fukushi, general manager, Process Information Management
Department, R&D Engineering Management Division, Nissan Motor
Co., Ltd. "We believe the NX team is committed to helping Nissan
achieve our long-term objectives in product development." Four key
NX 6 innovations * Flexibility -- NX 6 provides users new
flexibility with Design Freedom powered by synchronous technology
that leverages the ease of direct editing in the model creation
process. Design Freedom now combines the best of constraint-driven
techniques with direct modeling in a technology that provides users
with up to a 100 times faster design experience than ever before. *
Strength -- NX 6 handles extremely complex problems through
comprehensive CAD/CAM/CAE. NX 6 advanced simulation handles the
most demanding CAE challenges, providing a 30 percent reduction in
physical prototypes. * Coordination -- the NX 6 unified process
enables collaborative product development that leads to 20 percent
faster cycle times through process efficiency improvements such as
feature-based machining. * Productivity -- NX 6 provides engineers
and designers greater productivity through major re-use
enhancements such as scrapbook modeling that can improve cycle
times by 40 percent. With NX 6 engineers gain greater productivity
through their ability to leverage multi-CAD data within their
design, analysis and manufacturing processes thereby reducing the
need to re-master information for improved analysis and machining
times. Design Freedom, powered by synchronous technology for
greater flexibility NX 6 expands the capabilities of Design Freedom
with the new synchronous technology application layer. NX 6 Design
Freedom provides new approaches to creating and editing geometry.
These improvements make CAD easier for everyone in the product
lifecycle, including designers, engineers, analysts and
manufacturing engineers. A new "active selection" technique adds
intelligence to designs when needed. These advanced selection
methods automatically recognize logical and feature relationships
even on non-native data. "The Design Freedom capabilities from NX 6
will improve our engineers' ability to deal with external
non-parametric or very complex models," said Feng Lianguo, chief
engineer, Hisense Air-Conditioner R&D Centre. "We can easily
and quickly re-use the model or feature not only from old version,
but also from other software. It will definitely become a most
powerful tool to assist engineers, and it will also improve our
modeling method." In addition to Design Freedom, NX 6 continues to
improve the user experience by providing users with greater
flexibility through enhancements to its role-based user interface
introduced in NX 5. The NX 6 user interface adds full screen mode
for maximum graphics and customizable on-screen pop ups to speed
interaction. The result is a system that casual users can leverage
along with the most experienced CAD users. "The latest release of
NX enables me to be more efficient and productive. The customizable
pop-up menus really speed things up," said Elango Ramanathan,
automation specialist, Hughes Christensen. "Now I can put all my
favorite commands right under my mouse, there's no need to go to
the menu bar to pick a command. What's really great is to be able
to use all of my screen space for graphics; this makes complex
design work so much easier." Advanced simulation for greater
strength NX 6 continues to deliver on Siemens PLM Software's
Lifecycle Simulation vision, which is to make simulation pervasive
throughout the product lifecycle in order to design in quality and
drive product innovation. The new release includes a complete suite
of robust multi-disciplinary simulation solutions that meet the
needs of advanced CAE analysis experts as well as designers and
design engineers. NX 6 simulation provides extensions to the
integrated Advanced Flow and Advanced Thermal solutions. This
enables simulation of the complete range of coupled multi-physics,
including conduction, forced convection, condensation. In addition,
new FE model correlation capabilities enable CAE engineers to
validate the accuracy of their simulation results against
real-world performance measurements from physical prototypes. This
results in better design decisions at increased levels of accuracy
"We are very interested in NX 6's new CAE features," said Mdm. Liu
Liping, manager assistant of CAE Dept., Foton Automotive
Engineering Research Institute. "Particularly NX's pre/post
capabilities and the solver strengths of NX Nastran(R). We noticed
the enhanced unified CAD/CAE mode and see its inherent advantage.
The method and capability of mid-surface extract is also good. We
will also leverage the 'Virtual Mass' method when we make response
simulations for liquid containers. It is an effective and quick
linear contact solution for such analysis. These capabilities left
us with a deep impression. We look forward to trying them out in NX
6." Global access to centrally managed data for greater
coordination NX provides greater coordination by integrating
CAD/CAM/CAE disciplines across a product's lifecycle. This unified
process accesses centrally managed knowledge to accelerate product
development. Product knowledge is leveraged in downstream
applications through product and manufacturing information (PMI)
data. NX 6 leverages PMI data to significantly improve the flow of
information throughout the lifecycle. This connects to the
feature-based programming automation in NX CAM and reduces NC
programming time by 20 percent. Additionally, CAE product knowledge
is coordinated through NX Advanced Simulation, which leverages the
new CAE data model and CAE Assembly Product Structure available in
Teamcenter(R) for Simulation. Teamcenter integration enables the
global transformation of new product development processes,
including the integration of data from both commercial and in-house
simulation tools. NX 6 also improves coordination through faster
data management capabilities. The new release leverages the latest
performance gains offered by the new Teamcenter architecture. This
is particularly important to users working at multiple
geographically dispersed locations where the need to interact real
time with information is critical. With access to Geolus(R) Search
available inside NX, engineers are now able to search for common
parts by characteristics such as size and shape. Geolus Search is a
3D search engine which quickly identifies parts based on their
geometry characteristics such as size and shape. Geolus search
results can include NX parts, JT data or data from other CAD
systems. Re-use throughout the lifecycle for greater productivity A
differentiating feature of NX over competing systems is its ability
to capture and re-use knowledge in CAD/CAM/CAE. NX 6 provides key
new features that increase product re-use for reduced design time.
Design Freedom preserves multi-CAD design intent by allowing users
to add intelligence where necessary. "The new editing capabilities
of NX 6, which allow you to easily make fast changes, are really
impressive," said Danila Marco, CAD-CAM Portfolio Manager, Avio
S.p.A. "You can simply modify data imported from other CAD systems,
without knowing their history. Furthermore, JT format integration
is a step forward in large assembly handling and the new interface
is particularly intuitive and attractive." In addition, NX 6
supports a new workflow called "scrapbook modeling" that allows
users to cut, copy and paste sections of a model to increase
geometry re-use. This can reduce model preparation effort by up to
70 percent. In addition to the re-use of product knowledge in
design, NX enables manufacturing to re-use processes, which cuts
overall manufacturing cycle time. For example, the new NX 6
Machining Knowledge Database stores feature-based machining
processes to support programming automation and to share company
best practices. Pre-built machine tool kits also speed
implementation. Availability NX 6 is expected to be available by
June 30. For a complete what's new guide, visit
http://www.siemens.com/plm/nx6 . About Siemens PLM Software Siemens
PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation
Division, is a leading global provider of product lifecycle
management (PLM) software and services with 5.5 million licensed
seats and 51,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano,
Texas, Siemens PLM Software's open enterprise solutions enable a
world where organizations and their partners collaborate through
Global Innovation Networks to deliver world-class products and
services. For more information on Siemens PLM Software products and
services, visit http://www.siemens.com/plm . About the Siemens
Industry Automation Division The Siemens Industry Automation
Division (Nuremberg), a division of the Siemens Industry Sector, is
a worldwide leader in the fields of automation systems, low-voltage
switchgear and industrial software. Its portfolio ranges from
standard products for the manufacturing and process industry to
solutions for whole industries and systems that encompass the
automation of entire automobile production facilities and chemical
plants. As a leading software supplier, Industry Automation
optimizes the entire value added chain of manufacturers -- from
product design and development to production, sales and a wide
range of maintenance services. Note: Siemens and the Siemens logo
are registered trademarks of Siemens AG. NX, Geolus and Teamcenter
are trademarks or registered trademarks of Siemens Product
Lifecycle Management Software Inc. or its subsidiaries in the
United States and in other countries. NASTRAN is a registered
trademark of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. All
other trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks belong to
their respective holders.
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