Siemens and EOS North America partner to improve AM efficiency, profitability

Siemens Digital Industries Software and EOS North America have expanded their partnership to help manufacturers improve efficiency and profitability and increase the adoption of industrialized additive manufacturing (AM).

With this agreement, EOS North America will resell Siemens’ AM software with its machines. This will provide users with build preparation and build optimization, as well as connectivity to critical upstream design and downstream production processes, the companies state.

“The ability to offer our customers a combination of Siemens’ AM software with EOS machines is an important step toward industrializing additive manufacturing for larger-scale production,” said Andrew Snow, senior vice-president of EOS North America. “We want to ensure that our customers can be as successful printing their first part today as they will their 10,000th part tomorrow, which means our machines must go beyond build preparation to connect to the entire end-to-end AM process. This new agreement with Siemens will help accomplish this, and we’re excited to partner with Siemens as a reseller of their AM solutions.”

As part of the reseller agreement, Siemens Digital Industries Software will train the EOS Additive Minds technical consulting team on NX AM and AM Build Optimizer software. Additive Minds, in turn, will train EOS users on the use of Siemens’ AM software. The two organizations have also agreed on an extensive framework for providing in-depth technical support.

“With this agreement, EOS and Siemens can greatly improve the efficiency and profitability of the AM factory,” said Aaron Frankel, vice-president of the AM program for Siemens Digital Industries Software. “Instead of only providing the build preparation for a single machine, customers can now leverage a unified process upstream to transform design, and downstream to realize high-volume AM factory production. This unified process is critical for industrialized AM.”