Mori Seiki migra de 2d para 3d com o Solid Edge e reduz pela metade o tempo de desenvolvimento de suas maquinas, conheça aqui essa historia.

1. Solid Edge
Mori Seiki
Solid Edge 3D design contributes to revolutionary machining tools
Industry Mori Seiki revolutionized
Machinery and industrial the lathe industry with the
products announcement of its NL Series
in June 2004. Solid Edge
Issues provided the 3D design power
Dramatically reduce design to that contributed to Mori Seiki’s
production lead time revolutionary designs.
Take design quality to new
Mori Seiki’s design review process was
heights
rejuvenated by the implementation of 3D
design using Solid Edge® software from
Approach Siemens PLM Software. Solid Edge made it with simple machining functionality. This
easier for Mori Seki to analyze designs as is the first lathe to address the needs of
Make the transition from 2D the machining world.
well as evaluate performance prior to the
to 3D CAD by implementing
production of actual prototypes. By imple-
Solid Edge software Makoto Fujishima, director and general
menting Solid Edge, Mori Seiki was able to
cut its design to manufacturing lead time manager of Mori Seiki, says that “the NL
Results in half and increase its ability to release Series has been selling like hot cakes since
many more new products. its debut.” Fujishima also notes that other
The design review process N Series products are also selling
was rejuvenated as non- extremely well and that the overall share
The NL Series: Revolutionizing the
designers were easily able to of N Series products is rapidly increasing.
lathe industry and selling like hot cakes;
contribute their opinions to He believes the reason for acceptance of
Solid Edge: powering Mori Seiki’s 3D
the design process with the Mori Seiki’s N Series among its users is due
design process
implementation of 3D to its highly acclaimed “relentless improve-
Since producing its first lathe in 1968,
modeling ment of basic performance” N Series
Mori Seiki has produced approximately
Analysis became easier to 100 types of CNC lathes over the years. In design concept. Mori Seiki has always
perform, which in turn made June 2004, Mori Seki revolutionized the been one of the main contenders for the
it possible to grasp product lathe industry with the introduction of its top position in the cutting tool market, but
performance from the design NL Series, the latest model series in Mori the introduction of its N Series has defi-
stage and reduce manufactur- Seiki’s new product N Series line up that nitely contributed to boosting its competi-
ing time by 20 to 30 percent reflects its impressive performance record tive power to a much higher level.
in the N Series compared to and an uncompromising commitment
that of conventional product- to customer feedback. The greatest feature Solid Edge is the support behind Mori
sof equivalent prices of the NL Series is that it is a lathe with a Seiki’s product design advancements. Mori
sophisticated machining functionality. Up Seiki began using host-facilitated 2D CAD
until now, no lathes had been equipped tools in 1984 and then downsized to EWS
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2. Results (continued) in 1994, at which time the company Rejuvenated design review and analysis
made the transition to Solid Edge and made easy; design to prototype lead
Dramatic reduction in the
number of design flaws was implemented the 3D CAD design system time cut in half
achieved that was noticeable across the board. Currently Mori Seiki The first benefit of the introduction of
even by the designers owns 280 Solid Edge licenses making the Solid Edge was that Mori Seiki’s design
themselves company what you might call a “heavy review process was rejuvenated. “When
user” of Solid Edge. we were using 2D drawings in our design
Time from design to prototype
review process, it was often the case that
was cut in half making it pos- “The purpose for introducing 3D design only the designers could understand the
sible to release more new tools was to reduce our design-to-manu- designs,” says Fujimoto. However, since
products facturing lead time and vastly improve making the switch, even the nondesigners
our quality of design,” explains Kiyoshi are able to easily grasp the design con-
“It used to take us about six- Fujimoto, information system manager for cepts and thereby more easily contribute
months from development Mori Seiki. “In retrospect, we had reached their ideas to the design process. Often,
to prototype, but now we the limit possible with 2D design tools.” Mori Seiki’s design review will include the
are able to complete the It was then that Mori Seiki looked into designer’s supervisors, staff from the pro-
prototype in about three several 3D CAD products and decided to duction site, sales executives and even
months.The transition to implement a midrange product that was management executives for a lively
Solid Edge has enabled us easy for anyone to use and eliminated exchange of opinions. Before the introduc-
to double our new product curves not necessary to designing tion of 3D modeling, it was often the case
development pace.” cutting tools. that problems weren’t discovered until
Makoto Fujishima Mori Seiki reached to the assembly stage.
In addition, Mori Seiki could see that the However, now it is possible to catch and
Director and General Manger
Parasolid® software kernel was going to be clear such assembly related problems
Development and
the future standard for solid modeling and during the design review stage.
Manufacturing HQ
so the company made the decision to use
Control Technology
Solid Edge throughout its enterprise. 3D modeling has made it easier to
Laboratory
Administrative HQ perform various types of analysis, which
Information Systems play a critical role a in improving design
Department quality. Mori Seiki uses an array of analysis
Mori Seiki Co., Ltd. tools to perform vibration, structure, ther-
mal and operational performance analysis.
Fujimoto says that this makes it possible
“It takes hardly any time at to grasp how much product performance
all before you are able to can be anticipated during the design
use Solid Edge on your own. stage. Thanks to 3D modeling, Mori Seiki
After just two and a half has been able to improve the basic
days of training, users were performance of its products and reduce
able to master Solid Edge in manufacturing time by 20 to 30 percent
accordance to their own with its N Series when compared to
designing abilities.” that ofconventional products at
Masaki Kato equivalent prices.
Leader
Administrative HQ
Information Systems
Department
Information Systems 2 Section
Development Systems Team
Mori Seiki Co., Ltd.

3. Solutions/Services This has contributed to a sharp reduction Mori Seiki is also working toward an imple-
Solid Edge in the overall lead time from development mentation of CAM. The production site still
www.siemens.com/solidedge to manufacturing. Fujishima notes that uses 2D drawings, so if 3D models are
“it used to take us about six months from used with CAM, it is expected that an even
development to prototype, but now we are greater reduction in lead time will be
Customer’s primary business able to complete the prototype in about achieved. In addition, Mori Seiki’s market-
Mori Seiki is a leading compa- three months.” Fujishima points out that ing manager plans on aggressively using
ny and major contender for the transition to Solid Edge enabled 3D modeled drawings and data in Mori
the top share in the field of Mori Seiki to double its new product devel- Seiki’s product catalogs, service manuals
cutting tools. The company opment pace. In particular, from 2003 to and assembly manuals.
has improved the core perfor- 2004, Mori Seiki introduced the most new
mance compared to conven- products in company history and demon- Data is currently shared using a file server,
tional products and users are strated a great number of them at various but Mori Seiki is reviewing the possibility
especially praiseworthy of exhibitions. of transitioning to Siemens’ data manage-
Mori Seiki’s N Series. The NL ment system, Teamcenter® software, for
Series, in particular, has Mori Seiki has been able to dramatically this role in the future. If Teamcenter is
revolutionized the lathe indus- reduce the number of design flaws. used, Mori Seiki will be able to not only
try and is selling at explosive Interference between parts has dropped share files, but also to implement check-in/
levels. Mori Seiki has a 24/7 remarkably, and there are no longer check-out exclusionary controls, unify
service center available to problems related to the inconsistency management regarding various design
users every day of the year. in dimensions that were common when information and improve its overall
www.moriseiki.co.jp using 2D drawings. Even the designers work flow as it becomes easier to share
themselves have noticed the dramatic information with other divisions.
drop in design flaws.
Customer location “What we ultimately want to achieve is an
Nagoya City User training only takes two and a half environment that makes full use of 3D
Japan days; outlook to the future: CAM and modeling in every aspect possible,” says
Teamcenter Fujishima. It has been five years since Mori
Solid Edge has bridged the gap in regard to Seiki began using Solid Edge, and the com-
“3D modeling design ener- the request for something that anyone can pany now appears to be entering a new
gized our design review easily use. “It takes hardly any time at all phase in the world of 3D design.
process, made analysis before you are able to use Solid Edge on
easier to perform and made your own,” says Masanori Kato, Mori Seiki’s
it possible to grasp product information system leader. “After just two
performance in the design and a half days of training, users were able
stage.” to master Solid Edge in accordance to their
own designing abilities.” All new products
Kiyoshi Fujimoto
are completely designed using Solid Edge
Manager
and Mori Seiki is working to move design
Administrative HQ
of as many common parts as possible to
Information Systems
3D modeling. Some work is still done using
Department
2D, but this is limited to maintenance of
Information Systems 2 Section
old products.
Mori Seiki Co., Ltd.
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