Case Study: Demag Delaval Industrial Turbomachinery Ltd. achieves automated, repeatable NC programming and immediate part manufacture with Siemens PLM (NX CAM)

Demag Delaval Industrial Turbomachinery Ltd. - Customer Case Study

Demag Delaval Industrial Turbomachinery Ltd. faced a costly manufacturing bottleneck at its Lincoln gas-turbine site: NC programming was a shrinking, highly specialized “black art” that constrained throughput, drove tooling costs and lengthened delivery cycles. To address this, the Siemens PLM subsidiary adopted NX and NX CAM to try to capture and standardize machining know-how.

Siemens PLM implemented knowledge-driven manufacturing with NX CAM—storing tooling, feeds/speeds and cutting strategies in templates and process assistants so programmers can generate toolpaths automatically and earlier in the design cycle. The result: NC programming now begins during design, parts can be machined immediately on release (versus previous delays of up to three months), tooling costs have fallen, and the shop grew from 14 to 54 CNC machines fed by the same number of programmers.