Siemens has announced the recent expansion of its additive manufacturing offerings on the Siemens Xcelerator Marketplace, bringing new partners and solutions to accelerate industrial applications. This expansion highlights Siemens’ commitment to leveraging innovation, technology partnerships, and open, interoperable technologies to integrate additive manufacturing (AM) into traditional production processes. By focusing on productivity, cost-efficiency, quality, and market availability, Siemens enables companies to scale their AM solutions and meet the challenges of the circular economy.
The Importance of Additive Manufacturing in the Circular Economy
Additive manufacturing plays a key role in the circular economy by reducing waste and conserving resources. Siemens harnesses industrial AI and the industrial metaverse to create products that are reusable, recyclable, or safely returned to the environment. With advanced design tools, Siemens helps companies like Toolcraft enhance their design processes, improving efficiency by up to 85 percent for design modifications. Through these innovations, Siemens is driving more sustainable, resource-efficient production practices that support the transition to a circular economy. Among the new partners are:.
LEAM Technologies
LEAM Technologies is revolutionizing large format additive manufacturing (LFAM) with its innovative light-based welding technology. In collaboration with CEAD, a long-standing Siemens partner and an expert in LFAM, LEAM Technologies is providing a new range of possibilities for industries such as aerospace, defense, and energy. LEAM’s light-based process enables extreme mechanical strength, even in challenging-to-print materials. This new solution, now available on the Siemens Xcelerator Marketplace, includes a temperature monitoring system that ensures real-time temperature regulation during the printing process. This improves product quality while enhancing manufacturing efficiency and reducing reject rates.
VLM Robotics CALYPSO, Powered by Siemens Sinumerik One and Simove Systems
VLM Robotics, known for its XXL manufacturing machines, presents its new fully automated mobile robot solution, CALYPSO, powered by Siemens Sinumerik One and Simove systems. This solution adds to VLM Robotics’ portfolio of CNC robotic machines and hybrid additive manufacturing capabilities. VLM Robotics’ systems, which combine printing, welding, control, and milling tasks, can be seamlessly integrated into production environments for agile and efficient work on large components. Their hybrid solutions, including the GEMINI machine for XXL hybrid additive manufacturing, allow for precise, scalable operations with integrated digital threads that ensure full transparency and seamless data integration across the entire production lifecycle.
Haddy’s Sustainable 3D Printing and Robotics for Furniture Manufacturing
Haddy is revolutionizing the furniture manufacturing industry with advanced 3D printing and robotics, enabling high-quality, sustainable production on a commercial scale. By building a global network of microfactories equipped with hybrid Flexbot systems from CEAD, Haddy shortens the supply chain, reduces waste, and improves sustainability. The company uses renewable and recyclable materials to produce furniture and introduces a circular production model through RFID chips and a cloud API solution for responsible material tracing and recycling.
AM I Navigator Expands with Stratasys Partnership
In addition, the AM I Navigator initiative is expanding its framework to include Stratasys, providing a structured approach for defining the status and steps toward industrializing additive manufacturing. Since its launch in November 2023, the AM I Navigator framework has been refined with real-world application examples. The tool is designed to help companies assess their readiness for digital manufacturing and Industry 4.0, enabling them to modernize their production processes and integrate additive manufacturing into their operations.
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About Siemens Digital Industries:
Siemens Digital Industries (DI) empowers companies of all sizes within the process and discrete manufacturing industries to accelerate their digital and sustainability transformation across the entire value chain. Siemens’ cutting-edge automation and software portfolio revolutionizes the design, realization and optimization of products and production. And with Siemens Xcelerator – the open digital business platform – this process is made even easier, faster, and scalable. Together with our partners and ecosystem, Siemens Digital Industries enables customers to become a sustainable Digital Enterprise. Siemens Digital Industries has a workforce of around 70,000 people worldwide.
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