Siemens extends Xcelerator with suites for industrial and automation design
NX Automation Designer software and NX Industrial Electrical Design software extend Siemens Digital Industries Software’s Xcelerator portfolio. They provide a central design application for industrial electrical and automation design with new functions for efficient electrical and automation design of industrial equipment.
NX Automation Designer and NX Industrial Electrical Design provide new functions for efficient electrical and automation design of industrial equipment. Electrical engineers can complete their work faster with enhancements to connection handling and reporting, new OOTB symbols for IEC, ANSI and fluidics and 2D cabinet dimensioning. Automation engineers benefit from extended software generation capabilities for sequences and safety programs.
Both tools can help manufacturers of production systems to manage design complexity, shorten development lifecycles and increase the quality of designs, said Siemens. Direct integration with Teamcenter software for product lifecycle management (PLM) and the entire NX design software portfolio provides a unified multi-disciplinary design environment for production systems engineering.
The latest release enables customers to start their electrical and automation design work without Teamcenter, so customers not looking for a complete PLM system can use the electrical and automation design capabilities. NX Automation Designer boosts engineering productivity with a new level of multi-disciplinary collaboration, allowing the close interaction of mechanical and electrical design with automation technology in a single environment to manage projects more effectively.
NX Automation Designer and NX Industrial Electrical Design applications can work natively (without Teamcenter) or in managed mode with Teamcenter in the background.
“Thanks to the integrated toolchain from Siemens, digitalisation is even possible in small-medium size enterprises,” says Wolfgang Schloegl, vice president, Digital Engineering at Siemens. “Through this toolchain a significant efficiency enhancement can be achieved in particular when realising new products,” he said.
