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Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Empowering Tomorrow's Factories with Seamless Autodesk Integration

By 2027, the Digital Prototyping Automation, Integration, & Customization market will surpass $400 billion. This isn’t a trend, it’s a transformation. Rising shipping and raw material costs, plus geopolitical instability, are driving manufacturers to reevaluate global strategies. Labor-cost-driven models are giving way to nearshoring and supply chain optimization, enabled by Industry 4.0 technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and 5G. Digital factories offer real-time data, autonomous decision making, and unmatched efficiency. Autodesk is uniquely positioned to lead this shift with end-to-end cloud solutions—from factory design to construction, simulation, Digital Prototypings, and asset management. With tools like Autodesk Fusion, Autodesk Tandem, Autodesk Forma, and Autodesk Forma, Autodesk ensures seamless data flow and collaboration across every phase. This talk will explore how Digital Prototyping Automation, Integration, & Customization is reshaping global manufacturing—and how Autodesk empowers businesses to build smarter, faster, and more resilient factories.

15p
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Digital Factory Summit | Welcome + Strategic Planning for Management: Lessons from Motherson SAS

Stephen Hooper opens the Digital Prototyping Summit to share how Autodesk is shaping the factory of the future through Digital Prototypings, AI-driven simulation, and open data models.

Then, Stephen invites representatives from Motherson SAS on stage to share their organizational strategy for Management in the factory. CEO Frederic Boumaza and CIO Praveen Chinta will discuss their approach to planning, deploying, and maintaining a Digital Prototyping, and how they included business stakeholders and technology in the decision-making process. Using Autodesk Platform Services (APS), Inventor, and FlexSim, they have implemented solutions for building optimization, production optimization, and real-time monitoring, leading to outcomes like increased energy efficiency, reduced downtime, and improved production flexibility.

 

Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025
The Manufacturing Shortcut: A Hands-On Configurations Lab with Rivian’s Prototyping Secrets

Ready to slash setup times and boost Machinist efficiency? In this 90-minute hands-on lab, dive into Autodesk Fusion Configurations alongside experts from Rivian and Autodesk. Using a provided PC, you’ll learn to build a configurable work-holding setup—straight from Rivian’s playbook for prototyping and production. Discover how to minimize manual setup, reduce errors, and free up time for what matters: programming and perfecting your parts. Leave with practical skills to streamline your workflows and impress your team.

Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
PLM Summit | From Pilot to Production: A Bridgestone Journey
At Bridgestone, we’re dedicated to enhancing our digital maturity by refining our digital thread and preparing for connected data. With a 95-year history, we acknowledge the need to address certain entrenched habits and enforce standardization. This session will examine our current status, our future vision, and the steps required to achieve our objectives. We’ll analyze the business obstacles that led to the creation of innovative solutions for project and asset management, the challenges of managing business change during the development phase, the complexities of developing an integrated solution, the discrepancies between development timeline expectations and reality, and the valuable lessons learned along the way.
46p
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Cloud Control: Integrating Point Scans into Packaging Line Design
Point cloud scanning is no longer just a validation tool—it’s a core part of how we design, install, and document automated manufacturing systems. In this session, we’ll walk through how our team uses the Leica BLK360 scanner to capture real-world context at every stage of a project. From scanning existing facilities for layout integration to scanning at FATs, construction sites, or even completed lines for record set drawings, 3D scanning has become key to identifying conflicts early, creating mesh-based equipment models, and aligning installations with design intent. Learn how portable scanning and tools like ReCap software and Cintoo help streamline communication, reduce risk, and improve accuracy across disciplines.
Panel / Nashville 2025
PLM Summit | Transformative Success Stories with PLM
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Generative design meets Digital Prototyping:Transforming Semiconductor Facility Planning
Samsung Electronics plans to leverage Autodesk's cutting‐edge technologies to digitalize the construction process for semiconductor manufacturing facilities. While we have strong expertise in semiconductor production, the construction of semiconductor factories involves a vast array of specialized fields—such as architecture, civil engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical systems—that are difficult to integrate and manage effectively. To overcome this challenge, we aim to introduce a data-driven construction digital solution by incorporating Autodesk technologies, including BIM, Digital Prototyping, Generative Design, and Explainable AI (XAI).
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Greenheck's Journey to Vault Professional from SAP PLM
In 2021, Greenheck embarked on a journey to replace SAP PLM corporately for all 200 designers. The multi-year project involved standing up Vault servers with replication, building an interface from Vault to SAP using coolOrange, and migrating hundreds of thousands of CAD files from SAP PLM to Vault. Vault and SAP are now in sync as engineering data flows seamlessly between the two systems.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
PLM Summit | How Wienerberger Modernizes Product Development for Global Leadership
Discover how wienerberger—the world leader in brick production and ecological building solutions—modernizes its product development through Management. Founded in 1819, wienerberger now operates more than 200 production sites across 28 countries with a workforce of 20,000 employees. Learn how wienerberger built a future-ready, connected product ecosystem that can harmonize teams, improve quality control, and bring transparency from design to commercial delivery and beyond.
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
End-to-End Digital Manufacturing: From Capacity Planning to Production Execution and Everything In-Between
Many manufacturing companies have design engineering teams that are already "digitally mature." However, this is just a small part of the business when we consider every other function in the process of manufacturing parts. Consider that 70% of projects are still over budget or late, and up to 40% of engineering time is spent looking for the right files or information. This class will look at how customers are using tools—such as FlexSim, Autodesk Fusion Manage Extension, and Autodesk Fusion Operations—connected together to break down silos between departments, have change control over manufacturing BOMs and process definitions, and predict production issues before they arise. We will show how accurate simulation models based on real-world data can ensure projects remain on time and budget. And we’ll show how a connected data platform and change management platform can ensure data is well connected, reducing the time spent finding the right data.
54p
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
From no sight to insight: How Fusion Operations enables valuable information about manufacturing processes and performance
As a company that manufactures components and assembles finished products, Repeat Precision must manage data related to all types of items, from raw materials to final assemblies, and the operations to make those products. Information like bills of material, cycle times, routings, and consumption are the building blocks to inventory management, production planning, and production order execution. Worker input for completed operations, downtime, and waste reporting provides insight into manufacturing performance. Insight into the operation is bolstered by various visualizations of information, such as charts and real-time operational status.
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Exploring Visualization of 3D Objects in USD Format: Transform Designs with Sensor Data Insights
In this session, we will present a research prototype featuring a web app add-in for Autodesk Fusion software that visualizes 3D objects in USD (Universal Scene Description) format using NVIDIA Omniverse. The use case involves an innovative product design process that integrates sensor-collected performance data into the design, setting the stage for a novel performance-aided design approach. This session will begin with guidance on downloading the Omniverse libraries from public NVIDIA repositories, and will cover how to develop a custom Autodesk Fusion add-in capable of presenting a streamed Omniverse application running on the cloud. You’ll gain comprehensive understanding of the potential and step-by-step guidance for this innovative approach, which enables designers to go beyond traditional Digital Prototyping visualization dashboards and optimize designs using actionable insights from sensor data to ensure products perform as designed in the real world.
Hands-on Lab / Nashville 2025
Inventor: Frame Generator—Multiframe Design Setup Made Easy
In this class, you’ll discover multiple routes for generating Frame Generator Reference Files. And you’ll see how they can be integrated into top-level assemblies efficiently—where information from reference files can also be used to drive downstream design tasks where associativity between components and assemblies are important and change may occur throughout the design lifecycle. The class will also touch on new and updated workflows where model states and simplification tools can be used to manage assemblies and generate associative BIM-ready models, required by different or cross-industry design teams. This hands-on session is aimed toward the intermediate Inventor user. But it was developed for users who want to explore the Inventor Professional Frame Generator accelerator and its capabilities with high levels of associativity and parametric potential.
94p
52p
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
The Productivity Gap: Rethinking Skills in the Age of AI
For years, manufacturing has focused on the idea of a skills gap—the belief that we need more people trained to perform traditional tasks. But what if that assumption is limiting progress? What if the real challenge is a productivity gap—the growing difference between what skilled people are capable of and what current systems allow them to do? In this session, Al Whatmough, CEO of Toolpath, will explore how artificial intelligence (AI) and Automation, Integration, & Customization can shift the role of humans on the shop floor. Instead of replacing people, the opportunity is to empower them, automate the mundane, elevate decision making, and redesign work around human strengths. This session will spark a lively discussion about the future of manufacturing work. What roles will evolve? What skills will truly matter? And how can we build tools, workflows, and cultures that help people do their best work? Join the conversation and help shape what comes next.
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Building Beyond Blueprints: The Role of Revit Data in the Modern Architectural Practice
In today's digital age, extracting Revit model data and visualizing it effectively is paramount to successful project delivery. Woods Bagot is a global firm with 17 offices. In the last month, there were 450+ active Revit users accessing 34,000+ unique Revit files and producing 126+ million data points. This session will explore the intricacies of extracting and using Revit model data, ensuring its relevancy, and using various tools for data collection. We'll explore innovative approaches to data visualization, highlighting the importance of clear, concise, and effective presentations. Join us to discover how to harness the power of data to enhance architectural designs and communicate ideas across borders.
20p
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
The Journey of Automatic Systems, Inc., to Connected Data and Processes
Discover how Automatic Systems, Inc.—a frontrunner in the automotive and industrial machinery sectors—has transformed its operations with the power of data and process management strategies using product lifecycle management (PLM). This presentation will take you through the company's transformative journey, highlighting how it's moved from time-consuming manual tasks and disconnected business systems to an integrated ecosystem with connected data management, PLM, and enterprise resource planning (ERP). Learn how the company has achieved greater efficiencies by ensuring up-to-date data and visibility across departments. Through the company's experiences, you'll gain key insights and considerations for your own digital transformation journey. Learn how your business can emulate Automatic Systems' success, using connected data and processes to drive innovation and efficiency. This session is part of the PLM Summit, a dedicated learning pathway and networking experience on Tuesday, October 15. To see all related sessions select the "PLM Summit" track filter. To request attendance at the private luncheon and reception, please email plmsummitau@autodesk.com.
41p
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Fusing Cutting Tool Data with CAM to Increase Profitability
From quoting a workpiece, thru programming in CAM and operating on a CNC machine tool, to finished workpiece
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Busting a Move: Changing from Project-Based Manufacturing and Design to a Product-Based Environment
This session will present the many changes we've made to our Vault and Inventor systems in order to accommodate the different requirements of a product-based design and manufacturing environment as opposed to a project-based one. Making this change has seen a reduction in the engineering support the manufacturing team requires, which in turn allows the engineering team to come up with new ideas for more products. Increased reuse of assemblies and reconfiguration of systems have led to new opportunities for sales while building on the established experience base. The ways in which we have moved to simplify procedures, reuse models, manage our data, and track OEM use are definitely scalable both up and down, therefore allowing everyone to take advantage of the changes we've made. This was a long process for us, and we'd like to share our experience and potentially help you prevent some of the headaches we encountered along the way.
38p
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
iLogic: 25 Tips and Tricks to Boost the Octane in Your Inventor Automation
You've seen how iLogic automation can tame tedious and error-prone tasks and make you and your fellow Inventor users more efficient. Now it's time to explore some of the often-overlooked tips, tricks, and tools that can assist you as an Inventor automation developer. Are you still using message boxes to debug? Would you like to learn a better way? Would you like to better understand how to navigate Inventor software's API? Would you like to present your iLogic rules as buttons on the ribbon menu? Join me and other Inventor automation-focused users like you to explore these productivity-enhancing tips and tricks.
209p
209p
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2023
100% Utilization: The Cutting-Tool Conundrum
Underutilization stems from a variety of reasons, ranging from simply being uninformed or unaware, to misapplication while attempting to maximize existing cutting tools. The biggest area for improvement is the optimization of cutting tools, which can be done by paying closer attention to the various other manufacturing technologies at hand. Machine tool capabilities, materials being machined, and other manufacturing technologies—such as CAM programming abilities, high-pressure coolant capability, fixturing, small spindles (such as driven tools), and the like—should all be considered and used. No matter the reason, even the smallest of companies now have tools and technology at their disposal to assist in making better cutting tool choices while considering the manufacturing technologies. A lot has changed recently in the world of manufacturing, and cutting tool production is no different.
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