The partnership will leverage capabilities across the AM digital thread to deliver more profitable AM factories.
Siemens Digital Industries Software and EOS North America announced that they will be expanding their partnership. EOS North America will now be able to resell Siemens’ software solutions for Additive Manufacturing (AM) with its machines. This move is aimed to increase the adoption of industrialized AM. It will also provide customers with build preparation and optimization while connecting them to upstream design and downstream production processes.
Metal additive customers will now be able to buy NX AM build preparation and AM Build Optimizer software from EOS for part orientation and support structure. Further, Siemens’ NX software has been integrated with EOS’ job and process management software EOSPRINT 2.
“The ability to offer our customers a combination of Siemens’ AM software with EOS machines is an important step toward industrializing additive manufacturing for larger-scale production,” explains Andrew Snow, senior vice president of EOS North America. “We want to ensure that our customers can be as successful printing their first part today as they will their ten-thousandth part tomorrow, which means our machines must go beyond build preparation to connect to the entire end-to-end AM process. This new agreement with Siemens will help accomplish this and we’re excited to partner with Siemens as a reseller of their AM solutions.”
Users will be able to build files directly in NX, which allows them to define materials, exposure sets and beam offset values, to name a few variables. After creating a build strategy in NX, customers can then create previews of the layer-by-layer hatching pattern of the printed part. This allows them to verify the part before generating the EOSPRINT file.
Since 2016, when EOS integrated EOSPRINT software into Siemens’ NX software, they have fostered a partnership to advance industrialized additive manufacturing. Over the years, they have continued to expand their partnership. This latest move enables EOS North America to provide an end-to-end solution with Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio of software and services.
“With this agreement, EOS and Siemens can greatly improve the efficiency and profitability of the AM factory,” explains Aaron Frankel, Vice President of the AM Program for Siemens Digital Industries Software. “Instead of only providing the build preparation for a single machine, customers can now leverage a unified process upstream to transform design, and downstream to realize high-volume AM factory production. This unified process is critical for industrialized AM.”
EOS customers can leverage Siemens’ capabilities across the AM digital thread. Now development can be connected with only a single associative digital thread. This offers advantages over point solution alternatives. “Point solutions introduce time-consuming, error-prone inefficiencies into the AM workflow,” says Frankel. “Customers often have to interrupt their process to convert data for different software environments. And the problems with this approach are compounded with every change that’s required.”
Siemens Digital Industries Software and EOS North America’s partnership extends to customer support. Siemens will train EOS Additive Minds technical consulting team on NX AM and AM Build Optimizer software. Customers can then work with Additive Minds to learn how to use Siemens’ AM solutions. Together, they have created an extensive framework for in-depth technical support.