Siemens has partnered with Interspectral, a Swedish software company, to develop 3D visualization tools for metal additive manufacturing.
Visualize heterogeneous data
According to 3D Science Valley's market observations, this is an amazing visualization. This 3D visualization software tool is mainly to improve and eventually realize the industrialization of metal additive manufacturing. Users need to capture, explore and understand a large amount of heterogeneous data in the process, and use the 3D visualization software to enhance their knowledge in the field of metal additive manufacturing.
Interspectral was founded in 2014 and specializes in volume rendering, 3D visualization, imaging and 3D scanning. In 2017, the company cooperated with Siemens in the project of visualization of gas turbine business in Finsburg, and finally developed AM Explorer, which is a 3D visualization tool for 3D printing by Interspectral, which can optimize the production and design of 3D printing components.
This project is supported by Visual Sweden. Based on Interspectral's core visualization technology, Interspectral has designed intuitive software tools that support interactive exploration and collaboration. Using AM Explorer, Siemens will learn more from the collected data and increase the field of 3D printing. Knowledge and minimize trial and error.
The software design of AM Explorer can be used to import a large amount of heterogeneous data in one environment to visualize various phenomena from the metal additive manufacturing process. This allows CAD files, scans, camera and sensor data, and other acquired data to be fused and visualized in the same software tool. As a result, engineers can easily control all of this information and detect abnormal conditions during processing.
According to the market observation of 3D Science Valley, the cooperation with Siemens represents the beginning of INTERSPECTRAL's entry into emerging market segments. INTERSPECTRAL's 3D software shows how to handle complex data to improve understanding and control of the 3D printing process. This technology may be integrated into digital twin technology.
At the Hannover Messe 2019, Siemens announced that Siemens' cloud-based open IoT operating system, MindSphere, joined hands with Alibaba Cloud to officially enter China. MindSphere will extend Siemens' industrial expertise from the workshop to the cloud, using a range of connectivity technologies, data analysis and visualization technologies to improve corporate insights into plant and production performance and help scientific decisions. Using the cloud, enterprises can implement asset management and data management in a sustainable and economical manner, choose convenient digital tools that are suitable for themselves, and accelerate the digital transformation process.
From this we can see that in the field of data analysis and visualization technology, Siemens will provide these software services to the industrial manufacturing industry in the same way as providing infrastructure, enabling the improvement of manufacturing automation, efficiency and quality control.
At the Hannover Messe just past, Siemens introduced the first step in the successful transition from prototype manufacturing to industrialization using digital twins. As with the actual 3D printing process, this includes the industrialization of the entire additive manufacturing production chain and the "visualization" and predictability of all subsequent process steps.
The newly introduced digital twins from Siemens can predict the potential deformation caused by thermal stress during 3D printing. Manufacturers know this in advance, and can adjust the design, add heat release support structures, or compensate for corrections before actually starting the printing process. In the future, Siemens will create scalable modules to pave the way from low-volume production to mass production. In the future, Siemens will create scalable modules to pave the way from low-volume production to mass production.
As mentioned in 3D Science Valley's "3D Printing and Industrial Manufacturing" book, "The Industrial Internet enables 3D printing manufacturing, business, and development models to be reshaped." By using all the digital tools that Siemens has to master in the Industry 4.0 environment to view the execution stages of production, major advances have been made. By linking virtual and real world in continuous production, Siemens can bring productivity and reliability to additive manufacturing Flexibility and flexibility, and make industrial additive manufacturing production feasible.
The metal 3D printing visualization software AM Explorer launched by Siemens and INTERSPECTRAL integrated heterogeneous data in one interface for the first time, generating insights from the data, and becoming the "Industrial Internet empowered 3D printing manufacturing, business and development model remodeling" milestone.