Simple, all-round process integration

Integration of the machine tool into a company's workflow is an essential precondition for achieving a lean, efficient manufacturing operation. SINUMERIK Integrate offers a broad range of products for integrating machine tools into communication, engineering and production processes associated with metal-cutting manufacturing.

Integration of man and machine

SINUMERIK Integrate bundles IT-related functions into a uniform process suite and fully integrates the machine tool into the company's workflow. This integration of manufacturing and IT processes means the production manager, the plant operator, the programmer in the job planning department, the maintenance technician as well as those mechanical engineers with responsibility for design and servicing are networked and incorporated into the overall system by means of defined processes.

Integration into engineering processes

SINUMERIK Integrate employs an innovative PLM process to help users boost the productivity of machine tools over their entire service life and to commission them more effectively. The openness of the SINUMERIK system offers potential for optimizing technology, programming and operation for specific machines and end users.

Integration into production processes

SINUMERIK Integrate integrates machine tools quickly, simply and efficiently into the complicated production and communication processes of a company. Even the process of integrating machines into an existing, complex company IT network is quick and simple. The result is higher productivity and availability combined with an overall reduction in production costs. A closed CAD/CAM/CNC chain minimizes the time and cost involved in creating and simulating programs and for conducting trial program runs.

Integration of the CNC into the company's workflow

Software modules for open integration

Create-it!

Solutions for creating and configuring user-specific functions in the SINUMERIK Operate user and programming interface and for programming interfaces to the machine tool and to a company server are bundled in this module. It offers extensive function libraries, for example, which allow the use of PLC, NC and HMI functions throughout the network.

Lock-it!

Schutz von technologischem Wissen vor unberechtigtem Zugriff, z. B. Kopierschutz oder die sichere Verwahrung von Daten mit Firmen-Know-how.

Protection of technological know-how against unauthorized access, e.g. copy protection or the safekeeping of data containing in-house expertise.

Run-it!

Includes the entire runtime system for the execution of individual user interfaces, the execution of customized compile cycles on the NC kernel, the control of drives and the execution of the virtual NC kernel (VNCK).

Software modules for integration into the production process

Manage-it!

Organization and management of NC programs and tools. It includes solutions for every aspect of tool, data and program management to permit fast and general availability of manufacturing information. It also establishes an optimum link between design, production planning and production. The integrated interface in Teamcenter optimizes processes and represents them consistently.

Access-it!

Uniform communication interface for the SINUMERIK CNC which permits remote access for the purpose of machine tool diagnostics. It therefore reduces repair times and increases machine availability by supporting fast online access. Backups can be created and downloaded via interfaces to higher-level data backup programs.

Analyze-it!

Sophisticated functions for condition-based maintenance and analytical functions based on key performance indicators. Continuous evaluation of data in the production process helps to increase machine operating times and reduce outages and downtimes by the deployment of condition-oriented maintenance routines. It also supports the evaluation of key performance indicators relating to the wear and tear of mechatronic components.

SINUMERIK Integrate software modules