Ten years ago
we had the vision of becoming a highly efficient company.
We couldn't have imagined that the opportunities offered to
us nowadays by digitalization would ever become a reality.
Rosenhahl Nextrom has three business divisions.
We provide services for three Industries.
These are the glass fiber industry,
the cable and wire industry, and the battery industry.
The technology in our sectors is generally at a very high
level
In other words
the solutions related to product manufacture are
already highly saturated and extremely advanced
and the focus is always on managing fast product life
cycles meeting higher qualitative and quantitative
requirements
and keeping pace with competitors products from
low-wage countries.
In addition
there's the challenge of simply always finding better solutions.
We use our skills to combine mechatronic approaches with
physics and chemistry in order to generate a better, more
efficient manufacturing solution.
In the past, we use traditional engineering methods as part of
this process
and therefore always reached a limit.
Digital capture and simulation
make it possible for us to go beyond the limits reached by
traditional engineering methods
and to create better solutions, faster and more
cost-effectively.
Our digital twin is displayed to a considerable extent in
Siemens products.
This starts with Siemens NX 3D construction.
So that Teamcenter which links key data elements together
remains interconnected.
We continue to use this in Mechatronics Concept Designer
where we move on to the simulation of the mechanical
processes.
This is also integrated with automation technology via TIA
portal.
We use Plant Simulation.
As a result, our experts clients and other suppliers
within the infrastructure
can't even begin to imagine how these millions of components
and their modes of action interact in the workings of a
factory.
We use 3D factory tours to demonstrate the factory
concept to clients.
A whole new kind of interdisciplinary
collaboration takes place across various areas of
expertise.
The simulation makes it easier to perceive and understand a
specific task as a whole and this support helps our team to
generate unique solutions.
Siemens NX is basically a very, very comprehensive and powerful
tool.
Its best feature is the connection with Teamcenter
which means that downstream departments can also work well
with it.
We have machines and operate incredibly fast. In order to
increase their operating speeds,
it isn't only mechanical alterations that are required
but also technical automation adaptations,
The Mechatronics Concept Designer has enabled us to
adapt existing processes on our machines.
In effect, you save between four and six weeks of work
if you simulated in advance using the Mechatronics Concept
Designer.
As a result, we are always one step ahead of the competition.
In the traditional development process
we used to design a product according to the concept, then
build a prototype learn from that and use our interactive
learnings to build further prototypes until we were
ready for mass production. Digitalization and simulation
make it possible to leapfrog various stages of development.
We have been able to produce a completely new generation of
products within 12 months where in the past we would
have needed a lead time of 18 months or two years
and that after 50 years of an industry believing the process
had been optimized using traditional methods.