International Metalworking News for Asia

In any industry, manufacturers are always looking for ways to streamline all aspects of their businesses. They are now focusing more on the product development cycle, as an area ready for improvement. Taking time and money out of the product development cycle can pay big dividends for automakers. Siemens PLM Software's digital product development software is designed to help global product development teams accelerate a variety of product development tasks and expand the ability to work with data from third-party CAD applications. Automakers not only face a down economy, but also a competitive global market in which the parts that they need to machine, the machines used and the materials they are machining are becoming more complex. Everyone knows the automotive industry must keep up with continual, radical change: greater productivity with higher quality, declining margins and higher precision, new materials, new locations and more demanding customers. Walter Prototyp TMD solid carbide thread milling cutter enables the complete production of internal threads ranging from M6 to M16 by combining the procedures for drilling, countersinking (90 degrees) and thread milling. If Asia is to become the world's manufacturing hub, it needs to pay attention to the many shifts in solutions that will both optimise the development process and enable engineers to work more effectively together, and understand how the next wave of today's machining market demands shorter machining times and less unproductive downtime.