Machine builders need to become more agile and reliable in how they design and build their product. Teams working in silos must be brought together on a collaborative platform to pursue bolder designs, better cycle times, and higher-quality machines.

Check out our webinar on the right to learn how NX Mechatronic Concept Design can help you eliminate machine errors during commissioning and pursue bolder designs on faster timelines. Or Reach out to our team of experts to discuss your unique needs and goals. We’re excited to show you how NX Mechatronic Concept Design from Siemens Digital Industries Software will revolutionize your design and validation workflows.

Many companies feel lots of stress when they commission a new machine for the first time. Issues with mechanical collisions, software bugs, or electrical faults are almost a given for most companies that reach this stage. These companies simply accept these risks and inefficiencies and tinker with physical prototypes until they have the machine they want. But this approach leaves them vulnerable to unacceptable lead times, added expenses, and declining competitiveness compared to companies that are digitalizing their machine design and prototyping processes.

Imagine a single software that lets your mechanical, electrical, and automation engineers take a multidisciplinary approach to machine design. Bring your existing CAD/ECAD data and controls software seamlessly into a platform that creates a true digital prototype of your machine. That means bolder designs, shorter lead times, and fewer errors at the commissioning stage to save you time and money.

NX MCD allows you to trace customer requirements through to a finished design using systems engineering principles. A functional model provides a common language for mechanical, electrical and automation disciplines to work together in parallel, which helps you deliver designs faster and with fewer integration issues late in your design process.

Quickly create and validate alternative design concepts early in the development cycle, leveraging easy-to-use modeling and simulation in Mechatronics Concept Designer (MCD). Unlike a model-based tool, MCD enables you to see what the design looks like and validate that it works.

While model-centric tools show you the geometry and allow you to model the parts, we go further and enable you to validate that your product works before you build it. The Reuse Library enables this validation, from which you can quickly add data to the functional model. This data includes joints, motion, sensors, actuators, collision behavior and other kinematic and dynamic properties for each component. This allows a physics-based, interactive simulation to verify machine operation, which in turn detects and corrects digital model errors.