NX Overview

Siemens PLM Software www.siemens.com/plm

The NX™ suite of integrated CAD, CAM, CAE and PDM applications
transforms the entire product development process by enabling
companies to reduce waste, improve quality, shorten cycle time and
deliver more innovative products. NX is the industry’s only unified
solution that addresses every aspect of product development from
concept ideation to manufacturing.
Today’s product development
challenges
More than ever before,
manufacturing companies are
motivated to develop more
innovative products in shorter
delivery cycles while striving to
meet customer demands for high
levels of quality. But the need to
perform “better, cheaper and
faster” in a highly competitive
global marketplace is easier
said than done.
The issues that your product
development process must
address are among today’s
most daunting challenges. At first
glance, speed, cost, quality and
the capturing the customer’s
imagination are objectives
that appear to be at odds.
Conventional technologies
often speak to one or two
of these goals, but few solutions
are designed to embrace
all four concerns.
This dilemma requires a radical
rethinking of the traditional
business model that has been
applied to product development.
Today’s challenges require
companies to examine every
step in the product development
process and then improve each
of these steps individually –
as well as to transform the
product development process
in its entirety.
Your product development
process must master complexity.
It requires the participation
of multiple disciplines that
traditionally have been
geographically, organizationally
and technologically isolated.
These barriers inhibit the
marketing, design, engineering,
simulation and manufacturing
teams that develop a product
from aligning their activities
from the start of a project to
its completion.
These cross-discipline teams need
to understand the product’s
evolving requirements, share their
best ideas, retain the product’s
design intent, manage change,
communicate their concerns, and
monitor current status through
systematic and repeatable
processes that mirror the
iterative and dispersed nature of
today’s product development
value chain.
Just as importantly, today’s
product development process is
expected to compress its various
cycle times by minimizing lead
times and eliminating tasks that
do not add value – while
maximizing knowledge re-use
and proactively addressing
downstream issues before they
turn into costly mistakes.
To address these challenges,
Siemens PLM Software provides
the NX suite of digital product
development solutions.
Introducing NX
The NX suite of solutions enables you to transform your entire
product development process – as well as streamline the efficiency
of the individual steps that comprise this process. NX provides
best-in-class functionality for CAD, CAM, CAE and PDM for all
of your product development initiatives.
The NX suite delivers unparalleled breadth and depth of
functionality, including:
Synchronous Technology, which enables you to seamlessly use the
most productive modeling approaches in the same environment –
including explicit solid and surface modeling, as well as parametric
and history-free modeling.
Knowledge-based automation, which enables you to leverage the
product and process knowledge that your company has gained
from its experiences, as well as from industry best practices.
Process innovation, which enables you to streamline and integrate
the everyday work of your planning, concept design, engineering,
simulation and manufacturing teams.
Lifecycle simulation, which enables you to streamline your
simulation, validation and optimization processes and incorporate
performance simulation into your product development process
early and often.
NX is backed by Siemens PLM Software’s leadership in delivering
Global Innovation Networks, which enables your company to
make unified, information-driven decisions at every stage in the
product lifecycle.
NX solutions target critical business initiatives
New product development and introduction
Improve innovation by facilitating real-time global collaboration
among all lifecycle participants and processes
Value chain synchronization
Excel globally by optimizing the exchange of ideas and
information between all value chain participants
Enterprise data management
Improve competitiveness by providing secure access to your
enterprise’s product and process knowledge
Commonization and re-use
Re-use proven parts, equipment and processes to create
cost efficiency and foster best practices
Knowledge and intellectual property management
Capture the knowledge and expertise of your lifecycle
participants to continuously improve innovation
Regulatory compliance
Achieve regulatory compliance by integrating safety,
environmental, and government requirements
Production efficiency
Integrate product and process design with manufacturing best
practices to increase production quality and performance
System engineering and mechatronics
Integrate mechanical, electrical and electronic subsystems,
relationships and components
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NX business value

NX excels at delivering business value for companies that need
an integrated environment for digital product development.
Robust and powerful problem solving. NX is able to handle
extremely complex product development problems through
its comprehensive suite of CAD, CAM and CAE solutions.
NX’s interactive design capabilities enable you to model complex
geometry and massive assemblies, improving performance
and capacity. You can use NX’s advanced simulation capabilities
to handle the most demanding CAE challenges, providing a 30
percent reduction in physical prototyping. NX also enables you
to improve your manufacturing process by taking advantage of
today’s most advanced tooling and machining technologies.
Flexibility. NX provides unprecedented flexibility to employ
technology of your own choosing – as well as the best-in-class
tools offered in the NX solution suite. NX Design Freedom
enables designers to combine constraint-driven modeling
techniques with direct modeling. Designers and CAE users
can use NX synchronous modeling tools to modify design
geometry created on other (non-NX) CAD systems or by
other modeling techniques.
Unified coordination. NX delivers a unified product
development environment and unified processes that can be
leveraged to accelerate your cycle times. The seamless integration
of NX applications enables you to rapidly propagate information
and process changes across a development lifecycle that runs
from concept design to manufacturing.
NX also leverages Siemens’ Teamcenter® software to establish a
single source of product and process knowledge for your product
development environment. You can leverage this knowledge to
coordinate your cross-discipline teams, standardize your
processes and accelerate decision making.
Productivity. NX improves the productivity of your concept
design, engineering, simulation and manufacturing teams by
facilitating multiple re-use initiatives. Engineering teams can
leverage multi-CAD data in their design, analysis and
manufacturing processes – minimizing the need to re-master
this data and improving your analysis and machining cycle times.
Open environment. NX’s open architecture enables you
to protect your existing IT investments. With this unifying
platform, you can readily incorporate solutions from other
vendors in the digital product development process. At another
level, NX provides you with the opportunity to deploy its
capabilities on a variety of platforms, including Windows Vista,
Windows XP, UNIX and Linux.

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Advantage
Best-in-class unified environment
for design, simulation, tooling and
machining activities
Process-oriented environment
Broadest, most advanced
simulation environment
Benefit
Eliminates data translation costs for cross-discipline activities
Reduces maintenance, support and training costs
Minimizes time and cost impact of product changes that affect multiple disciplines
Leverages knowledge captured from experienced engineers, as well as industry best
practices
Breaks down barriers to cross-discipline collaboration
Ensures products are constantly aligned with their strategic intent
Standardizes, automates and streamlines repeatable design processes
Improves development productivity through the use of embedded knowledge
Captures and manages design rules to balance conflicting requirements and ensure compliance
Eliminates costly physical prototyping by simulating and validating products and processes across
multiple product development stages
Enables cross-discipline teams to deliver faster iterations by using common data and models
Speeds up development by using simulation to deliver critical product performance
information earlier in the development cycle
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Industrial design and styling
Distinctive design and styling gives manufacturers a significant
competitive advantage. But form, fit and function are equally
important since they determine whether customers have a
positive product experience. NX addresses this complexity with
an industrial design and styling toolset that designers can use to
rapidly define the design concept and then seamlessly transition
these ideas through a complete concept-to-market process.
Concept design and styling. NX enables industrial designers
to conceptualize their designs and perform surface and continuity
analysis, advanced rendering and concept evaluation in a
single environment that extends their traditional toolset.
NX gives designers the freedom to develop their concepts using
the most appropriate modeling approach, including standard
parametric and freeform techniques. NX provides all of the tools
that designers need to explore shape and style. Designers can use
NX’s curve-based design capabilities to create style and shapes
via splines and sketches.
With NX’s high-end surfacing tools, designers can create different
surface types and combine curve-based surfacing, pole editing and
sweeping into a single workflow that lets them choose the best
modeling tool for the task at hand. NX also enables designers to
evaluate and manipulate shapes in real-time.
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Sophisticated NX modeling and visualization tools let designers
quickly refine the design concept by applying color, materials,
textures and lighting. NX real-time rendering enables designers
to generate advanced photo-realistic images for rapid design
review – while NX virtual prototyping can be used for rapid
concept evaluation and iterative design validation.
Reverse engineering. NX’s highly flexible approach to reverse
engineering speeds development of the initial design concept.
NX tools can generate a CAD model from scanned physical
objects by mapping surfaces and curves to the polygon mesh.
Designers can use NX’s analysis and rendering tools to rapidly
evaluate the imported scan data.
Full design completion. NX has all of the tools and integration
required to facilitate full design completion. NX enables you
to take the concept model directly into product engineering,
including into detailed design, simulation, tooling and machining.
Advantage PROVEN VALUE
Create distinctive designs where style, aesthetic appearance, or
“Design intent isn’t compromised because
quality of form is a key market differentiator
our customers can manufacture directly
Consider styling, functionality, manufacturability and affordability from our NX files.This is a big selling
throughout an iterative design process point for PiliPili.”
Rapidly evaluate design concepts through photorealistic images Adriaan Debruyne
Creative Director
and virtual prototypes
PiliPili Productdesign
Eliminate disconnect between your design/styling teams and the Kortrijk, Belgium
rest of your product development organization
Design what you want and how you want it without the
constraints of standalone design tools

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Package design

In an increasingly competitive marketplace, companies
continually look for ways to create innovative packaging
while minimizing cycle time from product/package design to
manufacturing. NX’s package design solution enables you to
deliver distinctive package designs that are visually compelling,
as well as functionally superior in terms of their manufactur-
ability, affordability and maintainability.
Package design and styling. NX’s complete toolset includes
powerful design creation, shape editing and production surfacing
capabilities. NX provides all the tools needed to fully explore
shape and style. NX’s curve-based design capabilities let designers
create styles and shapes via splines and sketches. You can use
NX’s sophisticated modeling and visualization tools to quickly
refine the design concept by applying color, materials, textures
and lighting. NX provides the freedom and control that designers
require to evaluate and manipulate shapes in real time.
Designers can create and modify package shapes with NX’s
combination of curve-, surface- and solid-based design techniques.
NX’s fast modeling techniques yield high-quality surfaces that are
totally re-usable throughout the product development process.
Advanced real-time rendering can be leveraged to produce
photo-realistic images that accelerate the packaging review cycle.
Reverse engineering. NX’s flexible reverse engineering
capabilities greatly reduce the time required to initially develop
the package design concept. With NX tools, designers can scan
in physical objects, such as clay or foam models, and generate a
CAD model by mapping surfaces and curves to the polygon
mesh. NX also provides tools to analyze the scanned model for
stress/crush, mold-fill, manufacturability and virtual consumer
testing.
“Green” compliance. NX validation checking enables you to
initiate an automatic process to ensure that your product and
package designs comply with environmental, industry and
customer-specified standards. You can use these capabilities to
continuously monitor your designs as they evolve across the
entire product lifecycle.

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Advantage PROVEN VALUE
Create innovative package designs to attract customers in crowded,
“Packaging is a very large component
competitive marketplaces
of our product. It’s certainly the first
Minimize cycle time from product/package design to manufacturing thing that a consumer sees so it’s a big
driver of choice. Getting that right is
Meet look and styling requirements while delivering functional,
very important. NX is underpinning our
manufacturable and affordable package designs
common way of working in the
Automate design process so it can rapidly address today’s packaging function.”
environmental/green concerns
Huw Evans
Maximize package design re-use by developing concept models with R&D Director of Information
Unilever
high quality surfaces that can be leveraged throughout a complete Home and Personal Care Division
product lifecycle London, England

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Mechanical design

Today’s design processes need to deliver increasingly more Knowledge-enabled design. NX leverages the product and
complex products that require the participation of multiple process knowledge that your company has gained from its
teams, disciplines and suppliers using independent CAD experiences, as well as from industry best practices. Designers
systems and different modeling techniques. can capture knowledge in the form of high-level product
structure, templates, frequently used design features, engineering
NX’s leading edge CAD modeling tools represent a radical
rules, formulae and validation checks. Knowledge-enabled design
departure from conventional CAD systems in terms of the
helps you reduce design costs, compress the design cycle and
power, versatility, flexibility and productivity they deliver to
improve design quality.
your product development environment.
Active mockup and assembly design. NX Active Mockup
Comprehensive high-performance modeling. NX enables
enables designers to easily navigate large assemblies and establish
you to freely use any modeling technique that fits your design
a context for detailed sub-assembly and component work. Design
challenge. NX’s comprehensive 3D design capabilities include
teams use NX’s interactive design capability to collaboratively
wireframe, surface, solid and direct modeling solutions. Powered
view, modify and evaluate complete digital mockups.
by Siemens’ groundbreaking Synchronous Technology, NX lets
you unite feature-based parametric and history-free modeling Designers can perform interactive clearance and interference
in the same design environment. Designers can use NX to modify checking to detect and eliminate fit problems. NX path planning
design geometry initially created on other CAD systems or by and motion envelopes optimize products for assembly,
other modeling techniques – without re-creating data. disassembly, maintenance and service.
NX process-specific modeling provides logically constructed
workflows for performing design tasks, delivering built-in domain
expertise for industry-specific or complex processes.

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Advantage PROVEN VALUE
Accelerate the design process and improve design throughput by
“The validated benefits for our daily work
eliminating non-valued added tasks
have been more than a pleasant surprise.
Improve design team productivity and performance, especially In the first year alone, the latest release
when handling large complex models of NX not only brought a very quick
ROI but cost savings that totaled over
Fully integrate all of your design teams across the entire
100,000 Euros.”
development cycle by retaining design intent even when different
disciplines use multiple CAD systems Patric Dinkel
Head of CAD/PDM Application Support
Raise quality and minimize design errors by “designing-in” – Wittenstein AG
rather than “inspecting in” – product quality Igersheim, Germany

Maximize design re-use by establishing common product

platforms and building established best practices in your
development processes

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Electromechanical design
Companies that develop electromechanical products face critical
problems as they try to coordinate a product development
process that requires different disciplines to design and integrate
multiple mechanical, electrical, electronic and control system
components. Supply chain globalization and a growing demand
for more product variants compound the design challenge.
NX provides an integrated environment for all participants in
your electromechanical design process.
Single system solution. NX integrates mechanical, electronic
and electrical design, as well as analysis and manufacturing,
supporting every stage of the electromechanical lifecycle. NX
facilitates two-way data exchange between your MCAD and
ECAD domains and provides specialized functionality to help
coordinate and accelerate multi-discipline electromechanical
design, including sheet metal, industrial and flexible printed
circuit board design.
NX automation and validation tools capture product and
process knowledge that you can re-use to reduce development
time. Teamcenter-driven process management capabilities
accelerate your product lifecycle and manage product variants.
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Systems-level engineering. NX’s systems design approach leverages
intelligent product control structures that retain key design
characteristics. NX automatically propagates design change to
subassemblies and components. Both capabilities streamline the
process you use to create, manage and leverage complex variants.
Printed circuit board modeling and ECAD integration.
NX provides a full range of capabilities for interfacing your
MCAD and ECAD systems for complete physical design,
facilitating clearance checking, packaging and simulation with
associative data transfer and management for PCBs.
Routed systems and wire harness design integration.
NX enables designers to create and validate routed systems for
mechanical and electrical designs. Designers can quickly apply
logical design changes to the routed system by using associative
links between the P&ID layout and the 3D model. NX’s process-
specific tools for electrical routing and wire harness design
reduce errors and rework by integrating control system design
into your unified product development environment.
Advantage PROVEN VALUE
Streamline the development of electromechanical systems by
“One particular change, which took days
uniting all domains, disciplines and processes into a single
in another CAD system, took us 30
design environment
minutes in NX thanks to its system-based
Reduce error and rework by integrating your ECAD and MCAD modeling capability.”
domains and using PCB designs in your product assemblies Gus Desbarats
Chairman
Incorporate a full set of electromechanical simulation capabilities
Alloy Total Product Design
to evaluate all major design failure modes
Improve ease of use and productivity with process-specific sheet
metal design, industrial design and routing and wire harness
design applications
Boost engineering productivity by working with large assembly
models and virtual prototypes that can be evaluated in detail

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Mechanical simulation
Today’s companies want to accelerate innovation by using
simulation to evaluate different design alternatives, conduct
experiments and gain new insights into product performance.
However, some companies are unable to realize the full potential
of their simulation investments because simulation continues to
be disconnected from mainstream product development.
NX’s comprehensive set of digital simulation tools enables you to
integrate performance simulation earlier into your development
process so you can investigate more design options and make
better product decisions.
Design and design engineering. NX delivers easy to use
geometry based simulation solutions that facilitate rapid design
feedback NX’s Synchronous Technology enables CAE users to
quickly make geometry modifications for early “what-if” analyses.
• CAD-based finite element simulation environment for strength,
vibration and thermal analyses.
• Embedded motion simulation tools
• Built-in wizards and the ability to create custom wizards for
guided simulation and process automation
• Powered by NX Nastran
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Advanced engineering. NX enables CAE teams to perform high-
end analyses involving coupled physics. NX geometry editing and
finite element modeling are the fastest, most productive model
preparation tools available, including:
• Extensive finite element model preparation tools
• Unique technology for modeling large finite element assemblies
• Extensive analysis solutions for linear and non-linear analysis,
steady-state and transient flow analysis, conduction, convection
and radiation heat transfer analysis, fully coupled thermo-fluid
and thermo-elastic simulation, multi-body dynamics with
controls, response simulation and model correlation
NX-native CAE environments. NX provides a unifying platform
for incorporating in-house CAE software and popular CAE
solutions into an NX-native environment, including Ansys,
Abaqus, Nastran and LS-Dyna.
Simulation process management. NX offers out-of-the-box
integration with Teamcenter for increased collaboration and
greater visibility of simulation results throughout the organization.
Advantage PROVEN VALUE
Speed up development by improving communications between
“The data integration of the digital
designers and analysts and enabling cross-discipline teams to share
simulation tools enabled this design
models/data
effort to be completed under a very
Reduce development cost through using virtual prototypes, tight schedule.The analysis processes
as well as an open environment that works with most CAD and provided an unprecedented fidelity to
CAE applications the results, allowing the design to pass
the critical design review with
Produce better products by using simulation to evaluate more
flying colors.”
design alternatives, understand design tradeoffs and meet
performance, quality and cost targets Sean McAllister
Principal Mechanical Engineer
Reduce warranty exposure by finding and resolving product BAE Systems & IEWS
issues earlier BAE Systems

Deliver products faster by using a simulation process

augmented with best practices, requirements management and
change management

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Electromechanical simulation

Manufacturers increasingly need to blend mechanical, electrical, Systems engineering. The ability to understand and predict how
electronics and controls systems and components into their different systems will interact when brought together is crucial
products. This requirement adds a new level of complexity for electromechanical product development. NX Motion users
to product development since multiple disciplines with unique can use co-simulation to understand and tune how an electronic
skill sets and distinctive work processes have to collaborate. controller will interact with their mechanical system prior to
building the actual hardware. NX Electronics Systems Cooling
NX’s electromechanical simulation solution supports a
offers a multi-physics environment to simulate thermo-fluid
concurrent process where designers and analysts can seamlessly
behavior in densely packed electronic systems. NX Space
work together while developing and testing a product’s design.
Systems Thermal is specifically designed to handle orbital
NX provides your simulation user community with best-in-class
thermal analysis problems.
modeling tools and market-leading solvers for each step in the
simulation process. Collaboration and data management. Tight integration
between NX and Teamcenter ensures that simulation engineers
All NX mechanical simulation solutions are relevant for
always have access to product requirements and the latest design
electromechanical simulation as well. However, NX offers
data. These users are notified of any change that may require
much more. In fact, NX has solutions that address all major
analyses to be re-computed. Additionally, by storing the results in
causes of electromechanical product failure, including heat,
Teamcenter, the entire development team can leverage simulation
vibration and impact, dust and moisture.
results to make better informed decisions.
Faster modeling. NX users benefit from bi-directional data
exchange with EDA design systems that prevents manual errors
and miscommunication. Another time-consuming task for analysts
is fluid domain creation. With NX Design Freedom tools, fluid
domain creation is much faster. Equally important, since the
NX fluid domain is fully associative with NX CAD data, the fluid
domain is automatically updated after every design change.

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Advantage PROVEN VALUE
Accelerate development by enabling cross-discipline MCAD, ECAD
With only 14 weeks to design and deliver
and CAE teams to work together and share models/data
a prototype laser hazard detection system,
Reduce development cost by minimizing rework, maximizing Trex Enterprises required an analysis-
existing MCAD, ECAD and CAE investment, and leveraging a driven solution.
common data model that drives simulation across multiple
“The ability to work in a highly
disciplines
integrated environment, where design
Improve product quality with broader virtual testing of concepts could be quickly evaluated
design variables against all requirements, was critical
to the success of this fast-paced
Make better products by using simulation to evaluate design
program.”
alternatives, understand design tradeoffs and meet performance,
quality and cost targets George Houghton
Senior Engineer
Meet delivery schedules using a common data pipeline and a Trex Enterprises
requirements-driven, managed simulation process

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Tooling and fixture design

In a highly complex marketplace characterized by global Fixture design, including NX’s fully associative component
competition, tooling companies are pressured to reduce their design, assembly positioning and mating, kinematic simulation,
cycles time, minimize tools cost and achieve first-time quality performance validation and component knowledge
even as they strive to accommodate more complex parts. These library capabilities
demands are compounded by the need to participate in widely
CAM integration, including capabilities for integrating
dispersed supply chains where the need to integrate multiple
NX CAM into your tool design solution to automate your
partners and different disciplines is crucial.
downstream manufacturing definition
NX’s tool and fixture design solutions dramatically outperform
Electrode design, including best practices and automated
conventional tooling design systems. Their automated capabilities
processes you can use to model and design electrodes for any
enable you to seamlessly move from part design to finished tool
tool project that requires electrode discharge machining (EDM)
design in far less time and with fewer errors than traditional
CAD applications. NX addresses your entire tooling and fixture Engineering process management, including Teamcenter
design process by providing: capabilities you can use to bring all of your product, part, tool,
design, manufacturing and CAD data into a single source of
• Tier 1 solution, which automates and optimizes your mold,
knowledge, as well as to establish concurrent design processes
progressive die, stamping die and fixture design processes
for a comprehensive part manufacturing environment
• Tier 2 solution, which expands tier 1 with CAM integration
and electrode design capabilities that enable your tool
designers to seamless work with manufacturing engineers
and NC programmers
• Tier 3 solution, which extends your tier 2 solution with
engineering process management capabilities that enable
your tool designers to work in a comprehensive part
manufacturing environment
The following advanced NX design, simulation and
manufacturing capabilities drive these solutions.
Mold design, including NX’s molded part validation,
core/cavity optimization and mold base design capabilities
Progressive die design, including NX’s part preparation,
process design and die structure design capabilities
Stamping design, including NX’s formability analysis, die
planning, die face design, detailed die structure design and
die validation capabilities

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Advantage PROVEN VALUE
Accelerate design-to-manufacture turnaround by reducing design
“Most of our molds are very small and
lead time, minimizing manufacturing and machining time and cutting
need very complex machining.
design time/effort
NX proved to be the ideal solution.”
Reduce tool design costs D. Miquel Fiestas
Director
Improve manufacturing efficiency by achieving first-time quality on
Talleres Fiestas, S.L.
complex parts Catalunya, Spain
Improve teamwork across the entire part manufacturing process by
early engineering and manufacturing validation and tightly
integrating your supply chain
Reduce machining time by implementing high-speed machining
processes that decrease electrode manufacturing
and total mode manufacturing time

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Machining

To maximize the value of today’s latest and most powerful Production-ready output. G-code-driven machine tool
machine tools, it is crucial that manufacturing companies leverage simulation validates NX programs in the context of the machine
NC programming systems that realize the full capability of these tool. Complete toolkits with proven post processors, G-code
investments. NX CAM provides a wide range of machine tool simulation drivers, 3D machine tool models, setup examples and
programming capabilities in a single integrated solution to enable sample parts are available for select multi-function machines.
you to take advantage of the latest machine tool technologies and You can use NX Postbuilder’s graphical user interface to create
manufacturing processes. post processors with simple drag and drop techniques. Hundreds
of posts are available in the NX online post processor library.
Advanced capability. NX’s high-speed machining strategies
facilitate efficient hard milling while maintaining smooth motion Integrated part manufacturing. NX CAM is totally integrated
and consistent chip loads. Synchronized point distribution with other NX solutions so that NC programmers can directly
produces tool paths that deliver a superior finish at the machine access comprehensive design, assembly and drafting tools in a
tool. The NX machining library provides proven out-of-the-box single part manufacturing environment. With design through
solutions for machining tool steels. manufacturing associativity, design changes are automatically
propagated to machining operations. Programmers and
NX supports the latest generation of multi-function machine
manufacturing engineers can work with part models, create and
tools, including multi-channel milling, drilling and turning
assemble fixtures, develop tool paths and even model entire
capabilities for simultaneous 5-axis support. NX facilitates a wide
machines for 3D machining simulation in this environment.
range of flexible 5-axis machining with many tool axis control
options.
Programming automation. NX’s automated feature-based
machining strategies enable you to apply machining processes to
hole and surface features in the parts model. You can use NX
CAM wizards to capture and re-use proven machining processes
that lead NC programmers through step-by-step machining
sequences. You can leverage embedded product manufacturing
information (PMI) in an NX 3D model to drive your machining
process decisions.

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Advantage PROVEN VALUE
Improve the productivity of your machine tools by taking
“NX CAM covers our processes from
advantage of the latest machine tool technologies and
beginning to end and never sets a limit
manufacturing processes
on our creativity.”
Save up to 90 percent on programming time by automating Erik Klemm
routine tasks CAM Manager
AWM Mold Tech AG
Achieve faster and repeatable NC programming by capturing and Muri, Switzerland
re-using proven machining processes
Get it right the first time on the shop floor by simulating and
validating NC programs in the context of the machine tool

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Engineering process management

Increasingly, product makers are dispersing engineering, design Engineering change and process management. You can
and manufacturing to whatever location operates most cost leverage NX revision/version controls to manage iterative
effectively. NX’s approach to engineering process management information changes. NX’s preconfigured, best practice
provides a single, organized and secure source of product workflows enable design teams to view the impact of proposed
engineering and process knowledge that companies can use product changes, as well as initiate, administer, review, approve
to drive global product development. and execute these changes. You can leverage NX’s workflow
and process management capabilities to automate additional
Powered by Teamcenter, engineering process management allows
workflow processes that route product information
globally dispersed groups that use different CAD, CAM and CAE
for review/approval.
technologies to work as a single entity and maximize the quality,
productivity and timeliness of the products they deliver. Open application and system integration. Siemens’ open
PLM foundation enables your company to integrate mission-
Engineering data management. NX seamlessly manages
critical ERP, CRM and SCM investments into your NX
MCAD, ECAD, CAM, CAE and other product data initially
environment as well as rapidly accommodate new suppliers,
created by multiple disciplines. NX tightly integrates engineering,
partners and customers.
marketing, customer and government requirements into this
knowledge base. Advanced search and retrieval tools enable NX
users to quickly locate component and product information by
attribute or shape. Classification management enables teams
to classify, locate and easily re-use parts, products, processes and
engineering knowledge captured during product development.
Advanced security protects critical information by applying best
practices, including ITAR compliant access rules.
Engineering structure and configuration management.
NX users can build and modify hierarchical structures to
configure products for engineering and design. Design teams can
leverage NX’s context management capabilities to define, manage
and share their working contexts. Product teams can associatively
define and relate multiple BOM representations of the product
structure for different lifecycle stages. You can leverage NX
option and variant management capabilities to organize your
products into modules and marketing options, thereby enabling
your company to quickly respond to rising business opportunities.

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Advantage PROVEN VALUE
Significantly improve development time, quality and productivity by
“People can search and find what they
enabling different development teams to work together as an single
need quickly. Everything they’ve ever
entity regardless of location
done is inside the managed repository.
Implement your design-anywhere, build-anywhere initiatives through Tool designers can re-use tools and
a single-source of product and process knowledge check out tools and see what was done
in the past.They’re not forced to find prints
Improve enterprise productivity, reduce cost and accelerate your
that may not have been filed correctly.”
processes by consistently managing change across your entire
product lifecycle Gary Munch
Design engineer and CAD administrator
Eliminate ambiguity and streamline your engineering and Wiremold
development processes by leveraging clear and concise visual
information
Maximize enterprise performance by bringing industry-leading,
best-in-class development applications together in a single product
development environment

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