The business value of Process Simulate on TeamcenterThe increased complexity of products, manufacturing processesand distributed operational models presents world-classmanufacturers with “time-to-market”, capacity and assetoptimization challenges. Manufacturing engineering teams areexpected to enable flawless product launches and adhere to cost,quality and start-of-production targets. To meet these challenges,leading manufacturers know they must leverage theirorganizational knowledge, increase visibility and streamlineworkflows in order to succeed. Process Simulate on Teamcenterbrings together the power of an enterprise lifecycle knowledgedata management solution with a world-class digital validationenvironment providing manufacturers with a competitiveadvantage unmatched in the digital manufacturing arena. Withthis technology, thousands of validation experiments can be conducted efficiently and almostautomatically to ensure production optimization and process reliability.

Process Simulate on Teamcenter is fully integrated with your enterprise manufacturing knowledge inTeamcenter, thus enabling manufacturing engineers to re-use, author and validate manufacturingprocesses in an advanced 3D environment. Capable of emulating the behavior of manufacturingprocesses, motion paths and assembly sequences it allows manufacturing planners to leverage the fullproduction resources of your extended enterprise and quickly make improvements which areimmediately updated to your corporate manu-facturing knowledge base. This facilitates theoptimization of work cell layouts and process plansin full context of the product, process and resourceswhere multiple users across disciplines can interactand collaborate on the results. Process Simulate ishighly scalable, providing various engineeringdisciplines with the data and toolset to examinedetailed processes and verify them in differentphases and perspectives.

Process Simulate on TeamcenterA powerful 3D manufacturing simulation environment integrated to the most widely deployed standard inlifecycle data management,Teamcenter

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BenefitsWorks with native Teamcentermanufacturing data enabling directupdates to enterprise process plans

Maintains powerful capabilitiesfound in Teamcenter’s datamanagement architecture such asrevision rules and variants

Reduce and manage cost of changewith early detection and commu-nication of product design issues

Reduce number of physicalprototypes with upfront virtualvalidation

Optimize process plans andassembly sequences in detail

Reduce cost by re-using standardtools and facilities

Minimize production risk bysimulating several manufacturingscenarios

Increase process quality byemulating realistic processesthroughout the process lifecycle

SummaryProcess Simulate on Teamcenter® software is a powerful digital manufacturing solution for manufacturing process verification andsimulation integrated with Teamcenter’s manufacturing data and process management solution. This integration provides a unifiedenvironment enabling manufacturing engineers to analyze process plans in detail, validate assembly sequences, automatically calculatemotion paths and easily access a library of existing resources to improve asset performance.

Integrated environment for manufacturing process collaboration and validationProcess Simulate enables the verification of different segments of the manufacturing process or in-context of a particular focus area. This streamlines data requirements, eases communication andenhances collaboration because all extraneous data is removed from the collaborative effort yet fullrevision and variant history is maintained within the Teamcenter database. Assembly processes, weldpoint distribution for balancing and productivityand assembly paths can be simulated in the sameenvironment, allowing for the simulation of virtualproduction zones.

Assembly for Process Simulate on TeamcenterAssembly allows users to verify the feasibility ofan assembly process. It enables manufacturingengineers to determine the most efficientassembly sequence, catering for collision clearanceand identifying the shortest cycle time. ProcessSimulate Assembly provides the capability toselect the most suitable tool for the process bysearching the enterprise resource library viaTeamcenter’s resource manager, performing virtual assembly tests and collision analysis and simulatingthe full assembly process of the product and the tool together.

Spot for Process Simulate on TeamcenterThe spot application enables users to design andvalidate spot welding processes in a 3D simulationenvironment from early planning through detailedengineering stages. This facilitates and streamlinesmanufacturing engineering tasks such as distri-bution of weld points for balancing geometric andcycle time constraints. With the new integrationto Teamcenter, users can now access their manu-facturing resource knowledge base for the selectionof best fit weld guns, robots, tooling and fixtures.

Automatic path planner for Process Simulate on TeamcenterThe automatic path planner allows users to automatically calculate and create a collision-free path forthe assembly and disassembly process. The module works with an existing path or with a number oflocations and adds new locations to the path, and changes the existing orientations to create a newcollision-free path. Once a collision-free path has been calculated, users can use the manual tools suchas the location manipulator for fine tuning the final result, and/or for additional path modifications. Thistool saves enormous time in finding the right path.

Leveraging 3D data, process plans, resources and layouts directly from Teamcenter, this powerfulsolution facilitates virtual validation and optimization to increase the efficiency, predictability andreliability of your manufacturing processes.

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Features3D simulation

Static and dynamic collisiondetection

2D and 3D sections

3D measurements

Sequencing of operations

Assembly and disassemblyautomated path planning

Easily access production resources

Integrate workflow processes andchange management procedures

Changes immediately reflected inTeamcenter data structures

Line and workstations design

Documentation tools and workinstruction publication

Natively supported JT visualizationstandard

Visualize and balance welds on parts

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