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The new technologies of additive manufacturing are making fundamental changes in the industries around the world. With additive manufacturing, we’ll be able to replace our products with new designs that steer clear of conventional production methods and offer us ways to transform our business models sustainably, to expand our lead as a pioneer in this key technology, and thus to stay competitive for the future.

Additive manufacturing offers crucial benefits for Siemens and our customers – including enhanced performance in production, shorter times to market, faster upgrades of existing equipment, and significant time savings in key areas like development, production and repairs. Precisely tailored answers for customer needs, drastic reductions in inventory on hand, and having spare parts available on demand – all these are further advantages that will improve our business. Processes from conventional production will be replaced and reconfigured more efficiently with the new technologies. The change to digital design and service will leave both customers and Siemens the winners.

And the future should become even brighter as the potential of additive production is realized in more and more areas, thus enabling Siemens to take material development to the next level.

Siemens is expanding 3-D printing to a number of locations worldwide. Better parts can be printed out on demand. This technology will become established as standard engineering practice – all the while still bearing the Siemens seal of quality, which stands for outstanding products and engineering skill.

How will additive manufacturing revolutionize the product development process and applications?

• About 30% less greenhouse gases: Which makes our processes more environmentally friendly and sets the course for sustainable production, while reducing energy consumption.
• 50% shorter lead time: No more time wasted waiting for production space to get free or for suppliers to deliver ­– a critical consideration when parts become obsolete.
• 60% faster repairs: Rather than repairing multiple sub-components, additive manufacturing technologies can repair all sub-components in a single process, and thus significantly cut the materials, scope and time needed for repairs when they arise.
• Up to 75% shorter development time: With additive production we’ll be able to build and test prototypes faster, validate new designs at an early stage and significantly reduced time-to market for new and upgraded products.
• Better performance: New designs that can’t be made with conventional techniques are now possible with AM – leading to greater efficiency.
• Up to 65% less resource consumption for production: This is an advantage of eliminating the conventional production/casting setup and significant improvement of materials utilization
• Flexible part design: AM makes it possible to organize the design process on a much more iterative and quicker basis, with more tolerance and flexibility for unsuccessful designs. That will make multi-year development programs – which are very expensive – a thing of the past.

We in the Siemens family have the ambition to become better every day, with the aid of outstanding products and efficient service.

Help shape this future proactively, and join us in looking forward to further exciting developments and innovation infusion to our and your products.

Interested in further articles?

“Trust is key: Why we need partnerships on our path to industrialize 3D-printed components in the power industry”,

“Why we drive the industrialization of Additive Manufacturing.”

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