{"id":1182,"date":"2017-04-25T06:25:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2017-08-29T13:56:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T13:56:54","slug":"siemens-online-platform250420174","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/siemens-online-platform250420174\/","title":{"rendered":"SIEMENS announces plans for a new online platform to bring additive manufacturing to a global scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">3D printing is quickly becoming the go to technology for many companies and manufacturers around that world. That\u2019s why it\u2019s no surprise to hear that the Germany\u00a0based company, Siemens has made an announcement at Hannover Messe 2017 of their plans to develop an interactive web-based platform that is designed to bring on demand product design and 3D printing production to global manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSiemens is one of the only companies addressing the diverse needs of all additive manufacturing market participants \u2013 from designers and engineers, to manufacturers, 3D printing machine OEMs, material vendors and software providers \u2013 with a comprehensive set of seamless technology solutions for distributed industrial additive manufacturing and co-innovation,\u201d Explained Tony Hemmelgarnd, the President and CEO of Siemens PLM Software.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1183\" style=\"width: 2490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1183\" class=\"wp-image-1183 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/photo-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"Siemens\" width=\"2480\" height=\"1265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/photo-1-2.jpg 2480w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/photo-1-2-160x82.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/photo-1-2-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/photo-1-2-768x392.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/photo-1-2-1024x522.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2480px) 100vw, 2480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of the Siemens exhibit in Hall 9 at Hannover Messe 2017. This year, Siemens&#8217; focus was on &#8220;Digital Enterprise&#8221;. \/\/ Siemens<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the growing need of on-demand worldwide access to additive manufacturing technology, Siemens is hoping that their platform will \u201cCreate an online ecosystem\u201d that connects members within different sectors together to create an environment that can foster new co-innovations of products, increase productivity and accelerate additive manufacturing onto a new level of industrial use.<\/p><div class=\"dnati-inside-article-leaderboard\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"dnati-1092036198\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/3717757396787\/WN_sBfwcCHoQSq1mEANYpWa6Q\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"LB (3)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/LB-3.gif\" alt=\"\"  width=\"850\" height=\"150\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although the details of this part-manufacturing platform have yet to be released, they have given an expected launch date of mid- 2018. Until then, they have provided some different and exiting ways that they believe this program will help bring more innovation and ease to additive manufacturing. Some ways include finding qualified services quickly, reduction in obtaining your production quantities through enhanced job scheduling, expanding your business and much more.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1184\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1184\" class=\"wp-image-1184 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/doggy.jpg\" alt=\"Siemens\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/doggy.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/doggy-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/doggy-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser giving a 3D printed bouquet of flowers to Polish Prime Minister Beata Szyd\u0142o during her visit at the Siemens booth with Chancellor Angela Merkel and Johanna Wanka. \/\/ Siemens<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For more information on this new online platform, check out their press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/about_us\/newsroom\/press\/press_release.cfm?Component=256111&amp;ComponentTemplate=822\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What do you think of this new online platform? Do you think that this is the future for\u00a03D printing technologies? Let us know in a comment below or on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/3Dnatives\/\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/3Dnatives_en\/\">Twitter<\/a> pages!<\/p>\n<div class=\"dnati-after-content\" id=\"dnati-2433181526\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/amcoe.org\/event\/design-for-additive-manufacturing-design-at-elevation\/\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"DfAM course-850&#215;150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/DfAM-course-850x150-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/DfAM-course-850x150-1.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/DfAM-course-850x150-1-600x106.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/DfAM-course-850x150-1-768x136.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/DfAM-course-850x150-1-160x28.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" width=\"850\" height=\"150\"   \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3D printing is quickly becoming the go to technology for many companies and manufacturers around that world. That\u2019s why it\u2019s no surprise to hear that the Germany\u00a0based company, Siemens has made an announcement at Hannover Messe 2017 of their plans&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6051,"featured_media":1185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6051"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}