DMG MORI is pushing these future technologies with the consistent further development of additive manufacturing using both powder nozzles and powder beds. TechniaTranscat was brought into the team to optimize the entire production process of the SLM method.

TechniaTranscat is a driver of additive manufacturing and, as a partner of Dassault Systèmes, offers special software solutions that map the entire production process.

Additive manufacturing is no longer limited to plastics. It is now also finding its way into the series production of metal components. However, 3D printing alone is not enough. As with conventional production using CNC machines, a complex process needs to be managed that ultimately produces components that are highly precise, of impeccable quality and reproducible in a standardized manner.

DMG MORI, the world's largest machine manufacturer for machining processes, now also offers its customers machine and process solutions based on additive manufacturing. It bundles the necessary expertise in a strategic Expert Center. In addition to its own know-how in machining and tool processing, its subsidiary REALIZER contributes its expertise as a manufacturer of 3D printers. TechniaTranscat acts as a link, implementing software-based solutions that enable customers to control the complex process from planning and management through to production processes.

For more than three decades, the Karlsruhe-based PLM specialists TechniaTranscat have been a Dassault Systèmes reseller and offer their customers the entire range from CATIA to DELMIA and 3DEXPERIENCE - condensed into an individually tailored solution package.

"We basically deliver a complete solution. You design the component with CATIA, manage the product data and collaborate withCATIA in the virtual production facility," says Ralf Kirchheim, responsible for technology and solution strategies at TechniaTranscat. "This means bundling workflows, coordination processes and planning procedures. And that in turn means that there are fewer transmission errors and the entire project can be implemented more efficiently, faster and therefore more economically."

Simulation plays a particularly important role in the 3-dimensional printing of metal components. The heat input of the component during 3D production can be planned in advance with SIMULIA. Ultimately, this makes it possible to print a good part immediately by taking these parameters into account.

The cooperation with the industry-leading solution provider TechniaTranscat promised DMG MORI comprehensive and efficient coverage of all requirements and flexible applicability in the various areas.

"Together with DMG MORI, we support customers worldwide in setting up their individual, economical production process," says Kirchheim. "From the initial idea, through the first simulation models, to the series-printed and field-tested product." In overarching expert groups, data and models are worked on together in real time via a cloud, thus efficiently achieving the set goal.

DMG MORI is underpinning its development expertise with the advancement of additive manufacturing and the cooperation with TechniaTranscat and is leading the production of metal components into a new future.