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Lifecycle Services
SINUMERIK Manufacturing Excellence
Productivity Improvement
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Overview
Productivity Improvement
Productivity Improvement aims to improve the productivity of
older machine tools with SINUMERIK 840D whose warranty
period has expired. Productivity Improvement can enhance their
productivity by up to around 15 %.
When is Productivity Improvement viable?
In general, Productivity Improvement pays for itself in the case
of machines that are used intensively, e.g. in 2 or 3-shift opera-
tion, with high numbers of machine service hours, or long run-
ning times per part. Overall, the lifecycle costs are reduced and
the manufactured quantities are increased.
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Overview
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Where is Productivity Improvement applied?
The Productivity Improvement service supplied by Siemens
starts in the CNC: The higher computing performance achieved
by modernization of the control system hardware shortens all
system-related dead times and also supports the use of a new
software version. This, in turn, incorporates the important tech-
nological advances of recent years. On your machines, there-
fore, high-quality, efficient control algorithms and new produc-
tivity-enhancing CNC functions can be used. The desired
productivity improvement is often achieved with just these two
measures.
Productivity can be improved even further by other measures,
e.g. optimization of CNC programs or of a CAD/CAM interface.
All these measures shorten the machining times and downtimes
without subjecting the overall mechanical system to higher
levels of wear or the electrical system to critical thermal over-
loading.
How is Productivity Improvement actually performed?
The organizational process for Productivity Improvement follows
a defined, quality-assured process:
The general procedure is to disturb normal operation as little as
possible.
After the electrical equipment currently in use on your machine
tool with SINUMERIK 840D and the machining processes have
been documented, the potential for productivity improvement is
assessed.
The optimization measures requested by the customer are
prepared by Siemens first in the laboratory and verified in a
simulation – production at the customer site continues to run
normally during this phase. Implementation at the machine is
then performed in the shortest possible time.
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Benefits
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Selective updating of CNC components (software and
hardware)
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Shorter part production time with the same quality level and
therefore reduction in unit costs
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Short machine standstill time thanks to systematic and
time-optimized project processing
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Suitable for improving the productivity of older machine tools
with SINUMERIK 840D
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More information
Please contact your local Siemens sales office or representative
for more information.
Contact information is available on the Internet at:
/automation/partner
© Siemens AG 2016