Case Study – Producing printing presses with higher efficiency
Higher security for engineering process and a shorter development cycle
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) is one of the world’s leading solution providers for sheet-fed offset printing. Apart from printing presses, the company’s product portfolio includes plate imaging devices and finishing equipment, as well as software components designed to integrate all print manufacturing processes.
The company’s sheet-fed presses are sophisticated systems comprised of assemblies containing 60,000 to 80,000 parts; even their subassemblies consist of more than 2,000 parts. Assemblies of this scale involve the use of an enormous amount of data, which consistently taxes the limits of today’s hardware and software. In addition, the complexity of these assemblies and subassemblies increases as more components are used. For a number of years, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen has been using NX™ software – Siemens PLM Software’s 3D CAD/CAM/CAE system – for all of the company’s digital product definition tasks.
Read this informative case study and learn how Heidelberger Druckmaschinen is leveraging NX for better performance ensuring re-use and managing quality and complexity.
The integrated digital product definition based on NX – which extends from product development to manufacturing – has significantly contributed to Heidelberg’s shorter development cycles. The company’s ability to increasingly re-use its models throughout a complete process chain has contributed to this improvement. The company is now able to manage many more new projects with the same staff – a clear demonstration of how Heidelberg is able to leverage NX to increase its competitiveness.
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