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SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING
designers can also explicitly search for approved materials
and create material assignments from within NX. NX can
also generate color-coded 3D models indicating the extent
of compliance. Using advanced confgurations, designers
can choose diferent revision levels, options or variations of
a product structure for compliance grading (e.g., pass, fail,
compliant or noncompliant), as well as to indicate exemp-
tions to the regulations.
Sure, there are "niche products out there to address
sustainable manufacturing," says Kerri Doyle, Siemens PLM
Teamcenter product marketing manager for Siemens PLM
Software, "but they are on their own little islands, their own
silos. We feel they're not as good if they're not tied together
with the BOM"—and the rest of the information needed for
product development. Not so incidentally, companies can
Optimizing energy
consumption
saves money and
the environment.
Plant Simulation in
Tecnomatix, from
Siemens PLM, can
display 2D (top) and
3D (left) views of
energy usage so that
manufacturing engineers
can analyze and optimize
energy consumption.
"meet the requirements of regulatory and industry compli-
ance using the same PLM environment used to accelerate
product development," adds Doyle.
SUSTAINABILITY INSIDE THE FACTORY
When it comes to actually manufacturing products, "you
have to make sure the machines and resources you're
using are energy optimized," says Abhijit Dastidar, senior
manager, automotive & transportation industry marketing,
for Siemens PLM. Tecnomatix, also from Siemens PLM,
uses simulation to predict the energy utilization of a
factory. Points out Dastidar, "We are not creating a diferent
'sustainable manufacturing' domain. Sustainability is part
of the product lifecycle development. The primary function
of plant simulation is to optimize your throughput—and
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