Siemens now offers an array of new hardware and software solutions for its integrated Sinumerik portfolio. The offering comprises integrated industrial software and automation technology designed to enable machine tool manufacturers to leverage the full productivity potential of the digital factory.
“The end-to-end digitalization approach taken by Siemens encompasses not only hardware, but also software across the entire value chain from design to machine tool application, enabling our customers from the machine tool industry to achieve a significant boost to their productivity. The combination of advancing digitalization and innovative automation technology provides the key to creating a sustainable competitive edge,” said Head of Machine Tool Systems Uwe Armin Ruttkamp.
Highlights from EMO
Improved productivity: With its new Sinumerik CNC software release 4.8, Siemens is making a range of new functions available to significantly improve the speed, precision, and safety of machine tools. Benefits of version 4.8 include facility for compensating unwanted axis nodding movements and protection against machine, tool, and workpiece collisions. Nodding compensation (NoCo) is used to compensate for dynamic position deviations in one or more linear machine axes caused by acceleration processes.
The new Sinumerik software release 4.8 also comes with an advanced collision protection: Collision Avoidance Eco and Collision Avoidance Advanced. The Eco version enables simple, reliable machine protection by preventing collisions of the machine body with its own components within the work area. Collision Avoidance provides a permanent, high level of safety during operation.
Efficient operation: The Sinumerik Operate user interface has been further developed to enable even more easily manageable and intuitive operation of machine tools. This gives machine tool builders the opportunity to develop their own individual design in keeping with their corporate identity, lending machine tools a contemporary, distinctive look.
Faster engineering, commissioning: Siemens will present a new version of its proven Safety Integrated (SI) function for Sinumerik 840D sI in the form of its Safety Integrated plus — software for integrated control solutions. Previously, completely separate programs had to be written for the NC Kernel (NCK) and PLC. Now, this will only be necessary for the PLC.
This failsafe program can be generated quickly using the PLC software Step 7, which is integrated as standard in the Siemens TIA Portal. There are a large number of certified failsafe modules available for users in the TIA Portal for this purpose, which can be integrated directly into the Safety program. Using the new version Safety Integrated plus, which can be operated interactively with all of the Sinumerik 840D sI NCUs currently available, engineering times can be reduced by up to 50 percent.
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