Stratasys Ltd and Siemens have announced a formal partnership to integrate Siemens' Digital Factory solutions with Stratasys' additive manufacturing solutions. The partnership is intended to lay the foundation for the two companies to fulfill their shared vision of incorporating additive manufacturing into the traditional manufacturing workflow, helping it to become a universally recognized production practice which can benefit multiple industries, including aerospace, automotive, transportation, energy and industrial tooling. This announcement also builds on Siemens' recently announced end-to-end solution integrating digital design, simulation and data management with conventional and additive manufacturing.

Siemens and Stratasys have been collaborating on multiple projects including the direct link from Siemens' NX software for CAD/CAM/CAE to Stratasys' GrabCAD Print platform - enabling a seamless design-to-3D print workflow - and the recently previewed Stratasys Robotic Composite 3D Demonstrator that incorporates Siemens' product lifecycle management (PLM) software and its motion control and CNC automation technologies, to produce strong, lightweight performance parts.

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