Develop better products faster

 The Asian economic crisis that dragged the machine tool industry into its worst recession just a couple of years ago is now a memory. Asia is moving faster to add capacity, increase capital spending, and grab worldwide market share. Global PLM provider Siemens PLM Software recently released the Solid Edge? software ST4 (Solid Edge ST4) aimed at helping machine designers and engineers in Asia develop better products faster.
 The latest Solid Edge release includes a wide range of new customer-driven functionality including enhancements to synchronous technology to facilitate better product designs, improved multi-CAD collaboration using the widely adopted JT? data format, new tools to accelerate sheet metal design validation, and further refinements to its world-class drafting capability to help reduce documentation costs.
 "Solid Edge ST4 helps the machine designer and engineer create better designs by making its ground breaking synchronous technology easier than ever to incorporate into everyday tasks, and by making its core modelling tools easier and more productive to use," said Dan Staples, director of Solid Edge product development, Siemens PLM Software. "By delivering new ways to leverage synchronous technology, Solid Edge ST4 allows the user to work in whatever design environment best suits their needs, enabling them to stay focused on their design tasks without thinking about their design software. As a result, Solid Edge ST4 simplifies product design while offering one of the industry's most powerful modelling systems for the advanced designer."

 Make better products faster
 Solid Edge ST4 continues to add new capabilities to further enhance the intuitive design environment that helps machine designers and engineers design better products faster. Some examples include a new automated "live sections" capability to more easily and quickly create and edit revolved parts, new 3D modelling relationships to facilitate the centring, offsetting and editing of native or imported geometry, new 3D assembly relationships to automatically position parts in an assembly to avoid part interference, enhancements to the exploded views capability, and – through a new partnership with Cadenas GmbH – a new strategic parts management system that provides a dedicated portal for the configuration of 3D standard and supplier parts in native Solid Edge format.
 "As machine designers we are always working with very large assemblies so BEUMER is quite impressed with Solid Edge ST4 and the enhanced productivity it offers in the assembly environment," said Volker Horstmann, mechanical engineer, BEUMER Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG, a Germanybased international leader in the manufacture of intra-logistics for conveying, loading, palletising, packaging, sorting and distribution technology. "Using new commands based on synchronous technology allows us to edit a 3D model directly in the context of an assembly without the need to work with 2D sketches, making product design much faster. We can now control the design work much better, see the results instantly and accept, edit or reject the solution immediately. Solid Edge ST4 provides more design flexibility and is more intuitive than ever."

 Collaborate, simulate, document better
 Many of the new features in Solid Edge ST4 are driven by Siemens PLM Software's focus on understanding its customers' requirements and responding directly to their needs to ensure each functional enhancement delivers real business value. By pursuing this customer - driven enhancement process, Solid Edge ST4 delivers business value by improving the user's ability to collaborate wi th thei r customers and suppl iers, and by streamlining everyday product develNike Air max Dominate