This session will focus on the new interoperability between Factory Design Utilities software and FlexSim, showcasing the access of the Factory Design Utilities library in FlexSim as well as the export of a factory layout from FlexSim to a Factory Design Utilities tool. We’ll also share future development plans for FlexSim and Factory Design Utilities and what Autodesk is doing for the Factory Design Utilities space.

Factory Design Utilities software offers unique functionality that greatly simplifies the process of laying out and visualizing a factory design. However, don't let the word "factory" limit the scope or your view of this application. Anyone who needs to lay out a space or design with a common collection of assets can take advantage of the workflow offered by Factory Design Utilities. In this class, we will look at specific functionality available in Factory Design Utilities, and demonstrate how we can use it in many other design workflows.

This introductory hands-on lab will guide you through all the steps of setting up a production facility with Factory Design Utilities, from ideation to imagery, based on a step-by-step guided data set.

What would you say if you could take a more-simplified concept model useful for quickly and accurately quoting jobs and then utilize that same model to jump start your detailed engineering design process? Sounds like a pretty great deal, right? If that's what you're thinking, then this will be a great class for you! We'll explore using the Factory Design Utilities software to quickly build concept models for the quoting and customer-presentation process. Specifically utilizing the Factory Design Utilities Connector technologies lets us easily "snap build" models together and transfer parameter values to maximize conceptual design efficiency. From there, we'll talk specific structure, utilizing virtual components within the concept model to drive BOM creation from real components, both standard library (non-changing) as well as custom-engineered parts with their associated drawings. This lets us save time engineering the model and integrate with data management systems, like Vault software.

Who else is the Factory Design Utilities software useful for, besides factory planners? With the integration of Factory Design Utilities inside the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection, everyone has access to this effective tool to layout spaces with Inventor assets. Aside from the usual approach of planning factories, we will look at examples from trade fairs, retail environments, event planning, playgrounds, cafeterias, and others. We will begin with the asset creation in Inventor software and the space layout in 2D in AutoCAD software. Combined, we will then move to the Factory Design Utilities and understand how these 3 tools can be used in conjunction. We can then explore our layout with Navisworks software to visualize the layouts we create.

The Factory Design Utilities offers unique functionality that greatly simplifies the process of laying out and visualizing a factory design. However, don't let the word "factory" limit the scope or your view of this application. Anyone who needs to lay out a space or design with a common collection of assets can take advantage of the workflow offered by Factory Design Utilities. In this class we will look at specific functionality available in Factory Design Utilities and demonstrate how we can use it in many other design workflows.

Autodesk Factory Design Utilities is an integrated layout and optimisation solution built specifically to help you design and communicate the most efficient layout by creating a digital model of your factory or other types of layout. Factory Design Utilities is part of the Autodesk Product Design Collection and includes tools for optimising 2D layouts, integrating 2D layout data with 3D models and facility components and creating 3D layout models with bidirectional 2D/3D associativity.

Are you planning on implementing Factory Design Utilities at your company? Maybe you're in the process of implementing Factory Design Utilities, or you've tried to implement Factory Design Utilities and had some issues. There are a lot of variables to consider—such as how many employees will need access, shared content, content creation, templates, cloud data management, and so on—and it can be overwhelming. In this roundtable class, you can discuss the details with other companies that have implemented Factory Design Utilities, and you'll get best practices from companies that have implemented it successfully.

If you joined us at last year's AU and attended "A Factory Design Utilities Discussion with Peers on a Successful Deployment," you know the group discussed best practices and what to avoid when implementing Factory Design Utilities software. The information we discussed helped people who'd already implemented it by validating the experiences of others, and helped the people who were planning on implementing it soon. In this session, we'll pick up where last year's ended and focus on best practices for maintaining a successful deployment. We'll especially focus on using simplification workflows to keep file sizes smaller, managing simplified models, and understanding how to update the simplified models automatically when changes happen to the main file. After this session, you'll be able to integrate smaller models into your designs and keep them updated as changes occur.

This class will help you to discover 10 exposed and hidden functions to use Factory Design Utilities software more efficiently with the latest release.

Developing a great set of assets for Autodesk Factory Design Utilities can be a challenge. In this class, we will discuss and demonstrate the top techniques used to create the most-functional factory assets.

Reality capture techniques are becoming commonplace in many aspects of design. The factory layout process is no different. From the clean up and orientation of the point cloud to the possibility of using point clouds as factory assets, when it comes to utilizing point clouds with Factory Design Suite software, there is a lot to consider. Join us in this class as we focus on the various techniques and workflows for capitalizing on point clouds captures in the factory layout process. This session features the Factory Design Utilities, Autodesk Inventor, and ReCap.

Your next big factory layout project requires you to collaborate with various stakeholders and you would like to use Autodesk Construction Cloud. This class will walk you through the process of producing a factory layout using Autodesk Factory Design Utilities software and interfacing with a collaborative project on the Autodesk Construction Cloud platform. Embracing this new technology may be the key to the productive outcome of your next project.

As part of the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection, Factory Design Utilities can help plan and manage production facilities consisting of a wide variety of components in an efficient model or layout. Cooperation between suppliers and customers is often crucial. Therefore, with Fusion Team, stakeholders can set up a Factory Design project, manage library assets, and trace their creation process from different AnyCAD sources. All data is versioned, can be compared in terms of changes, and can be easily and quickly communicated with the team, even if they are not CAD or data management specialists. The ability to collaborate with the data on a web-based cloud service increases the availability and traceability of the data, as well as the ability to solve problems faster and with the appropriate decision makers.

This session will showcase a new workflow of creating a factory layout in Autodesk Factory Design Utilities software and using FlexSim to validate the throughput of the layout, identify potential bottlenecks, and balance resource use. We will also discuss the product roadmap for Factory Design Utilities and FlexSim, as well as the vision for Autodesk Fusion digital factory. Learn how Autodesk is paving the way to connected data and seamless workflows in the Autodesk Fusion industry cloud, as well as enabling factory designers and industrial engineers to validate factory layout designs.

In this session, participants will explore the comprehensive capabilities and benefits of Factory Design Utilities software with data seamlessly integrated and shared across other Autodesk products (such as Inventor, AutoCAD, Revit, Autodesk Construction Cloud, and Navisworks software). The session is designed to provide a thorough understanding of how these tools can revolutionize the factory layout design process, enhance efficiency, and drive business success. Through Automation, Integration, & Customization, we’ve achieved 90% efficiency in project handover with a 50% time savings on coordination.

GEA is constantly working with its Mission 26 to improve customer experience and increase efficiency and quality. Dive into a compelling case study where Factory Design Utilities software, part of the Inventor and iLogic capabilities, radically transformed factory design from the sales stage to engineering / project execution and beyond! This course will explore GEA's groundbreaking transition to Factory Design Utilities, which reduced engineering time by up to 80% and simplified complex plant layouts. Discover the transformative approach that synchronized 2D and 3D designs, significantly benefiting sales and engineering processes, and delivering profound accuracy improvements. Join us to explore this shift as we explore how using Factory Design Utilities can help companies win more business, reduce design iterations, allocate time to critical tasks, manage more projects more efficiently, and ultimately improve overall factory design productivity and profitability.

Maintaining an accurate facility layout can a big challenge. The drawings are normally out of date, and it can be a time-consuming task to get the measurements and update the drawings. All of these tasks are typically low-priority activities for most companies. Capturing the reality of your facility will demonstrate a workflow for going from scans of a facility to a 3D model. The class will demonstrate how you can use ReCap software to generate a point cloud of the scan data. Then we'll use point cloud utilities in AutoCAD software to generate sections of the point cloud. Finally, we'll use Factory Design Utilities software in Inventor software to locate equipment in the facility.

Discover how multibillion-dollar conglomerates navigate collaboration challenges between manufacturing and architecture, engineering, and construction sectors. Traditionally bound by constraints of limited interoperability and manual exchanges, these industry leaders now embrace Autodesk's cloud-based Autodesk Construction Cloud platform, ushering in a new era of streamlined processes. Explore the fascinating journey of digitizing design and commissioning processes, starting with local Vault for Inventor. Witness seamless synchronization with Autodesk Docs software, model transfers to Revit software via Factory Design Utilities software, coordination in Navisworks software, and collaboration in the Autodesk Construction Cloud Design Collaboration module. See firsthand how this new workflow improves collaboration from start to finish, changing the way manufacturing works

In this session, we’ll learn how to make the most of Inventor software and toolsets like AutoCAD Electrical, AutoCAD Mechanical, and AutoCAD Plant 3D software by seamlessly connecting them. We’ll also learn about using tools like Electromechanical Link and Inventor Link to keep 2D and 3D models in sync, ensuring your designs stay updated across all platforms. And we’ll learn how Navisworks software can bring together AutoCAD Plant 3D and Inventor for smoother coordination and collaboration. Whether you’re working on electrical systems, piping layouts, or mechanical components, this session will provide you with practical tips and tricks to keep everything in sync and running smoothly across the team. Additionally, we'll learn how to generate 3D representations of 2D factory layouts using Factory Design Utilities software.