Solid Edge® software is powerful 3D CAD software deliveringcompetitive advantage through cost reduction and increasedrevenues. Insight technology directly embeds design management,providing insight into design intent to the entire organization andenhancing collaboration. Insight, along with superior modeling andprocess workflows, greatly eases the design of increasingly complexproducts required to meet changing market demands.

Solid EdgeMachinery Design

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As a machine designer today youare constantly facing one veryclear but difficult issue: the everincreasing complexity of yourproduct designs. Driven by marketdemand for new and innovativeproducts with an increasing arrayof options, product complexity hasmultiplied exponentially in the lastdecade. Add the need to applynew technologies before yourcompetitors do, customer demandfor faster delivery – and the needto fit more and more capabilityinto smaller and smaller spaceswhile delivering increasingly

functional shapes with optimizedmaterial costs – and productcomplexity becomes almostimpossible to manage.

Enter Solid Edge and its Design withInsight approach to machine design.Straightforward yet robust, simplebut elegant, Solid Edge eases thedesign of complex machines.

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Easing the design of complex machinery

Your products are becoming more complex,but that doesn’t mean your processes or yourtools have to follow. Solid Edge can help you toDesign with Insight, simplifying design complexityby providing insight into design intent throughoutthe machine design process.

Solid Edge helps you capture and re-use pertinentinformation starting at layout and moving throughto complete digital mockup, while providingyou with industry-best practices for machinery-specific processes such as weldments, sheet metal,wiring, tubing, shape creation and assembly.

By extending this valuable insight to all of theusers of design information through Solid Edge’sunique built-in collaborative environment, youwill soon be managing product complexitywithout adding to the complexity of yourmachine design processes.

Results that countSolid Edge is one of the few investments youcan make that will impact the top line of yourbusiness. By maximizing design re-use and inno-vation, Solid Edge will help you evaluate morevariations in less time, clearly differentiate yourproduct and quickly adapt to change – ultimatelyleading to improved customer proposals andhigher win rates.

And, at the same time, Solid Edge helps to keepyour product development costs under controlthrough effortless re-use of components andsystems from previously completed projects,streamlined design reviews, faster supplierturnaround and fewer prototyping cycles.This allleads to reduced rework and clearly identifiableincreases in engineering productivity that makeyou more competitive in the marketplace.

Significant cost savings from lower materialcosts and inventory optimization do not mean areduction in quality. Solid Edge lets you quicklyand easily explore new materials and shapes foroptimized functionality, while improving documen-tation for your manufacturing team, customersand suppliers.

It’s no accident that Solid Edge is the designtool of choice for thousands of machineryorganizations around the world.These companiesrely on Solid Edge to make complex machinedesign easier. Using Solid Edge, they buildfunctionally accurate machinery models andeliminate costly errors and rework.They quicklydevelop new and improved designs that exceedcustomer expectations and help to keep theirorder book full.

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A proven workflow for the machine design process

From the moment you implement Solid Edge, you are on the way todifferentiating your business from your competitors. First, enhance yoursales and marketing efforts using Solid Edge for web publishing, productrenderings and animations that demonstrate your capabilities.Then, takeadvantage of Solid Edge’s unique ability to offer increased insight intoyour machinery design process, from initial layouts for proposals throughcomplete digital mockup and final documentation. From concept to finaldesign, Solid Edge will help you explore and validate more variations,confirm that the product performs as intended and facilitate the re-useof proven components and systems to optimize costs and assure thehighest quality, on-time delivery.

Faster customer proposalsExisting machine designs often form the basis for new proposalsand Solid Edge helps you quickly generate a new project. Powerfulinterrogation tools help your design team investigate the impact of anynecessary modifications and better evaluate the costs of these earlydesign decisions. By quickly finding all documents that will be affectedand giving you a more accurate understanding of the modificationsinvolved, Solid Edge helps you generate detailed customer proposalsfaster and improves your chances for receiving the purchase order.

Conceptual design to full digital mockup and documentationWith Solid Edge, you design machinery the same way you think about it.For speed and simplicity, 2D layouts provide a framework from whichmore detailed part and subassemblies are developed.Then, uniquehybrid 2D/3D capabilities let you easily assure accurate fit of all parts.

As the design progresses, you can take advantage of Solid Edge’s provenstrengths in massive assembly design to develop a full digital mockup.Solid Edge customers are creating digital mockups containing morethan 100,000 parts.These functionally realistic machinery models allowyou to emulate the real-world situations for which your products arebeing designed.

2D drawings continue to be the most common deliverable for docu-menting a completed machinery design and Solid Edge leads the marketin drawing creation productivity. Solid Edge dramatically accelerates theproduction of assembly drawings by automatically creating explodedviews, balloons, parts lists and BOMs.You will quickly create fullydimensioned drawings and maintenance documentation that is alwaysup to date with reference to the machinery models.

Promotingcapabilities

Winningbusiness

Conceptualdesign

Detaildesign

Designreviews

Documentation

Manufacturing

Assemblyand verification

Installation andcustom training

Post-projectarchive

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Maximizing re-use of existing design information

New machinery designs often evolve from existing products and,withSolid Edge as your design knowledge resource, new product lines andmodifications to existing modules can be produced in less time and atless cost. Following completion of each Solid Edge project, the entireproduct data set and the intellectual property it contains are captured,securely archived and remain easily accessible for future projects so youcan quickly understand the impact of proposed design modifications andpresent accurate knowledge-rich proposals that shorten the time tofinal purchase orders.

Quickly find and re-use dataSolid Edge Insight helps you better evaluate the impact of designdecisions by quickly finding all documents that will be affected by achange, including all related 2D drawings.You can quickly locate designdata using any defined criteria and SQL indexing means searches takeseconds. Fast “where used” reporting also helps your design teamdetermine all the product and subassembly models that contain aspecific component, giving them a more accurate understanding ofthe impact of replacing or modifying components of the machine.

Leveraging existing designsMachinery designers commonly use 2D layouts to provide a frameworkfor more detailed part and subassembly design. Solid Edge lets you useexisting 2D machinery layouts or create new ones with familiar 2Dconcepts and then add 3D as you progress.With these unique hybrid2D/3D capabilities, you can mix and match 2D and 3D representations ofparts, only adding 3D detail when required. By modifying or updating anexisting 2D machinery design without having to first remodel all of theindividual components in 3D, you can quickly re-purpose existing designsto meet the needs of new customers.And you will still be capturingenough intelligence to ensure the finished machine comes togethersmoothly and accurately.

Machinery modules as functional systemsSolid Edge lets you simulate the interaction of machinery components ina real-world environment through Systems Design, a unique Solid Edgeapproach that enables you to create and store functionally realisticmachinery sub-systems that emulate the real-world situations for whichthey are being designed.Once you have simulated and validated thebehavior of assemblies and mechanisms used in your machinery designs,you can save them as re-usable systems that you know will maintainthis built-in knowledge and function correctly when re-used in futuremachinery designs. Solid Edge’s Systems Design capabilities are powerfulenablers for “what-if” scenarios, allowing you to incorporate modulardesign changes and quickly adapt existing machine designs to meetchanging customer requirements.

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Conceptual designUse Solid Edge’s flexible 2D/3D capabilities toarrange the machine layout, using a mix ofexisting 2D drawings and 3D models and furtherspeeding time-to-completion by distributingdesign tasks throughout the team. Assureaccurate fit of parts without having to modelevery individual component. Leverage SolidEdge’s proven strengths in massive assemblydesign to develop machinery models containingtens or even hundreds of thousands of parts.

Detail designQuickly create a full digital mockup of the newproduct, optimizing use of materials andinventory for lower costs. Solid Edge resolvesfit and interference issues long before any partsare manufactured. Unique systems designcapabilities develop functional models thatsimulate real-world environments, enablingbetter design decisions that ultimately lead toclearly differentiated products at a lower cost.

Design reviewsUse Solid Edge’s built-in managed collaborationcapabilities to improve communication throughoutthe entire design process. Engineers, designers,external suppliers, customers and others can trackprogress, view and mark up drawings and initiatechange orders that are seamlessly recorded,managed and communicated, leading to fewerdownstream changes and lower costs throughearlier component definition.

Promoting capabilitiesUse digital mockups created in Solid Edge forprevious projects to raise awareness and buildimmediate customer confidence in your engi-neering capabilities. Photo realistic renderingsremove the need for expensive photography,while 3D animations bring your products to lifeand can be published directly to your companyweb pages.

Winning businessQuickly understand the impact of proposeddesign modifications and present accurateknowledge-rich proposals that shorten thetime to final purchase orders. Take advantageof systems design capabilities to easily studythe impact of design variations and offer aclearly differentiated solution at a pricethat keeps your customers happy and yourbusiness profitable.

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DocumentationEffortlessly create 2D drawings from machineryassemblies containing thousands of parts.Add standard, section, detail, broken andisometric views with the click of a button.Accelerate the production of assembly drawingsby automatically creating exploded views,balloons, parts lists and BOMs.

ManufacturingLeverage the integration of world-classpartners in Solid Edge’s Voyager program forseamless communications with CAM and otherdownstream applications. Improve collaborationbetween engineering, shop floor and externalsuppliers using practical view and markup toolsand managed workflows for release control.

Assembly and verificationUse clearly understandable assembly drawingsand 3D animations to speed assembly time.Enjoy the results of Solid Edge’s full digitalmockup and systems design capabilities thatensure the finished product fits and functions“right the first time.”

Installation and customer trainingCreate higher quality user and maintenanceguides, including 3D exploded views andanimations that can be easily customized tosuit the need of individual customers.

Post-project archiveSolid Edge captures and securely archives theentire product data set and the intellectualproperty it contains, so that it remains easilyaccessible for future projects. By easing designcomplexity, new products can be produced inless time and at less cost.

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Managing change

Integrated data vaultingSolid Edge Insight manages your valuable machinery design datain secure vaults. Document check-in and check-out processesare seamlessly embedded inside standard Solid Edge file commandsand Solid Edge provides continual and instant feedback on thestatus of files, their availability and who is working on them.These secure, SQL server-based vaulting features preventunauthorized or conflicting changes and allow individual teammembers to confidently work on the same machine, knowingthat the components they are referencing from other membersare always up to date.

Comprehensive revision managementSolid Edge Insight helps your design team keep abreast of designchanges as they develop.Throughout the lifecycle of each machine,team members can subscribe to product data – individual files,folders and even discussion groups – to receive automatic emailnotification whenever changes are made. As designers completetheir work, Solid Edge automatically checks in the files, assigns newversion numbers and updates related files to reflect the changes.Solid Edge saves and tracks multiple revisions of a design and Insightprovides powerful recursive searching so you can review the fulldesign history, determine the source of revisions and replacedesigns with previous revisions.

Full ECR/ECO workflow managementInsight simplifies the release process for machinery designs, usingautomated workflows to ensure that everyone is receiving theinformation they need, when they need it. From pre-released, toreleased and throughout any step in the complete product lifecycle,industry leading collaboration and data management tools ensurethat changes can be enacted, checked and approved as swiftly andaccurately as possible. Insight supports both serial and parallelapproval processes and you can either use the out-of-the-boxworkflow templates delivered with Solid Edge or customize yourown to suit your specific requirements.

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Machinery-specific design applications

Solid Edge delivers tools and workflows that offer specific solutionsto the challenges of machinery design.Tailored environments,specific to processes at hand, reduce development costs byeliminating errors to assure designs are right the first time.Withoptimized drawing production and manufacturing considerationsbuilt directly into each process, you engineer and build complexmachines in less time.

Sheet metalSolid Edge’s sheet metal environment uses standard sheet metaland fabrication terminology, with streamlined modeling commandsfor tabs, flanges, louvers, dimples, cutouts, mitered corners, cornerbreaks and other sheet metal-specific part features.With auto-mated placement of bend relief, bend allowance calculations andpunch- and laser-ready flat pattern development, Solid Edgedelivers the most advanced sheet metal CAD package available.

WeldmentsThe weldment environment assists in defining the constituentparts of weldments, as well as weld beads, pre-weld surfacetreatments and machining operations after the welds are applied.Solid Edge drafting documents the entire weldment manufacturingprocess, with component drawings as well as pre-weld andpost-machining views.Weldment designs can be placed and manip-ulated as single components in machinery models.

Wiring and tubingSolid Edge XpresRoute is an integrated add-on package thatrapidly routes and models wires, cables and rigid or flexibletubing for hydraulic or pneumatic systems.Tubing and wiringcomponents are dynamically associative to the components theyconnect, so that they automatically adjust when changes aremade to a machine’s related parts.

Standard PartsSolid Edge Standard Parts is a powerful parts managementsystem that allows your designers to define, store, select andposition commonly used parts – like fasteners, bearings andstructural steel members – quickly and efficiently, enabling rapidand precise completion of machinery designs.With Solid EdgeStandard Parts, you can establish and share company standards,so your designers can concentrate on designing machinery andnot on redundant modeling tasks. In addition to the baseline ofcomponents delivered with Solid Edge, an extensive machineryparts library is available as an optional add-on package.

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Better engineering for higher quality machinery

Solid Edge boosts design productivity with specialized tools thatencapsulate best practices for machinery design, helping you tomake better decisions and capture valuable knowledge as you refinea design. Captured intelligence means your original design intent isautomatically preserved whenever you make changes, so you cancontinue to innovate beyond your competitors while maintainingthe quality and serviceability of your products.

Design rule sensorsAnalogous to physical sensing devices, sensors are unique Solid Edgedesign aids that provide continuing feedback on engineering rulesand variables as the design develops. Sensors automatically monitordistances between components, surface areas, physical propertiesand other design variables and let you know when design rules andother criteria are not being met.

Motion and interference analysisSolid Edge provides a range of tools that allow you to simulate movingparts within your machinery design and detect any interferencethat may result. By simply moving a component, you can detectcollisions and observe the realistic effects of contacts and forcesthat will influence the part’s movement. As parts collide, they willeither stop or push each other around, depending on how theyhave been defined in the assembly. In addition, a built-in motionanalysis package can accurately simulate complex movementinvolving multiple parts at once, detect interferences and createAVI animations of the full range of assembly motion.

Online engineering referenceThe Engineering Handbook is an integrated add-on package forSolid Edge that provides online reference and automatic mechanicalpart modeling. A calculation driven parts generator automaticallybuilds part models from the engineering calculations, based ondesired load and service criteria. Also included is a complete onlinereference that documents algorithms, formulas and theories.

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Solid Edge – Design with Insight for machinery

Solid Edge allows your machine designers to Design with Insightby providing insight into design intent throughout your organization.Complement this with Solid Edge’s superior core modeling andprocess workflows and you can see how companies in the businessof machine design have been able to reduce their engineeringchange orders and related rework by 50 percent or more.

The engineering aids in Solid Edge help you evaluate more designalternatives in less time.You can rapidly create and evaluate largenumbers of design alternatives for your machinery – optimizing form,fit and function, while maintaining design intent and manufacturabilityof complete systems throughout the design process.

By optimizing machinery performance and reliability, increasingengineering capacity, improving quality and reducing lead timesand costs, Solid Edge is helping machinery makers achieve strategicbusiness objectives of greater market share, revenue and profitability.

Contact your local reseller to see the productivity advantages ofSolid Edge and learn how Solid Edge delivers more insight into yourdesigns and processes.Your business can benefit from the CADindustry’s most functional innovations for machinery design. Be firstto complete your new machinery designs, first to market withan error-free product, the first to Design with Insight.

About Solid Edge

Solid Edge with SynchronousTechnology is the most complete feature-based 2D/3D CAD

system available to the market today that combines the speed and flexibility of direct modeling with

precise control of dimension-driven design, to provide the fastest, most flexible design experience

possible.With superior part and assembly modeling, drafting, transparent data management, and

built-in finite element analysis, Solid Edge with SynchronousTechnology is a core component

of theVelocity Series™ portfolio that eases the growing complexity of product design.

About Siemens PLM Software

Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division, is a leading

global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services with 4.6 million

licensed seats and 51,000 customers worldwide.Headquartered in Plano,Texas, Siemens PLM

Software’s open enterprise solutions enable a world where organizations and their partners collab-

orate through Global Innovation Networks to deliver world-class products and services.

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