Explore deploying a digitalized design and monitoring workflow for a thermal remediation system (TISR®). Using Autodesk Forma, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Revit, and Autodesk Tandem software, the project establishes a seamless lifecycle workflow from early-stage planning and data harmonization to real-time monitoring and maintenance. Forma optimizes solar energy feasibility analysis and site planning, while Autodesk Construction Cloud ensures standardized data exchange across stakeholders. Revit enables detailed 3D parametric modeling. And Tandem integrates telemetry data to monitor system performance. You’ll learn how Digital Prototypings enhance operational performance, reduce the need for on-site visits, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and improve collaboration between stakeholders. Explore the transformative potential of Digital Prototyping platforms for advancing sustainable asset management, conserving resources, and increasing infrastructure resilience in environmental restoration.

The evolution of design and drafting has increasingly given us tools that inform and expedite our processes. But what can we learn from the implementation of CAD, building information modeling (BIM), and now AI to prepare teams for the future of design tools? Working at a multidisciplinary design firm encompassing planning, landscape, architecture, and interiors has shown me that technology adoption and digital maturity happen at different rates. But regardless of the tools used and efficiency in practice, projects are completed. Focusing on the finished work, lessons learned can become the quantitative outcomes we bring to the beginning of projects in this era of outcome-focused process. By distilling 50+ years of digital asset creation and the analysis of completed projects, we can uncover the potential embedded within our digital archives.

Join us on an inspiring journey through Babcock's transformation into a digital shipyard. We've invested significantly in automation, system architecture, and connectivity, reshaping manufacturing processes with data as our guiding force. This thought-provoking talk will explore an approach to identifying "master" data and implementing a distributed configuration management model. You'll learn how this model ensures the integrity of product configuration throughout project execution and delivery, fostering seamless connections between people and processes while boosting productivity. Additionally, you'll gain valuable insights into our use of Vault software for product configuration management, maintaining a consistent production baseline and driving data-driven outcomes.

Pierlite (business of Signify, formerly Philips Lighting) had a vision to supply project quantities of bespoke lighting products, designed by customers in real time and manufactured within a week. To deliver this unique value proposition to the market, Pierlite partnered with Tentech to design a new business model. This collaboration involved the implementation of Minute Configurator, a configuration interface and engine used to integrate product data, purchasing, planning, and production. Minute Configurator used parameterized models and a generation engine to let users customize lighting solutions, displaying a live 3D render and providing instant technical data. Production was streamlined with automated ordering and optimization of manufacturing processes, delivering a reduction in human resource. Configuration can revolutionize a broad range of product development processes, delivering speed, customization, and a new user experience.

In this session, we will show the new media and entertainment Autodesk Platform Services-oriented software and give an introduction to how the APIs work. The Autodesk Platform Services Flow Graph Engine API is already in beta, with the Media and Entertainment Data Model coming soon to support the Flow Asset Management tools. This class will focus on those features that will also be included in the digital content creation (DCC) tools, but from an API perspective to show how customers can automate and access the data and functionality in an automated way.

Companies struggle with cost overruns, supply chain disruptions, and inefficient production due to poorly managed Bills of Materials (BOMs). Inaccurate BOMs can lead to delays, excess inventory, and missed revenue opportunities. So, let's take a deep dive into the important world of the BOM and build a blueprint for successful product development and equipment manufacturing. This session will equip you with practical strategies to create accurate, optimized BOMs. We'll explore best practices, tools, and case studies to streamline BOM processes. We'll start in CAD, building a good foundation. Then we'll move this information into product lifecycle management (PLM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and other production-related applications.

In this session, we'll introduce GraphQL and explore how it is being used to deliver the promise of "granular" data. As you have heard before, Autodesk is investing heavily in cloud data with Autodesk Fusion (manufacturing), Autodesk Forma [architecture, engineering, and construction; building information modeling (BIM)], and Autodesk Flow (media and entertainment) industry groups. At the center is also the Data Exchange API that allows data to be shared in a specific and durable way. From authoring to access, this class will explain the details about each software system, and how to use the GraphQL API to access the data. We'll also cover the fact that data can easily be accessed across each of the information models, and via Data Exchange.

Digital transformation ​is how manufacturing processes are managed throughout production on the factory floor. It helps operations collect the capacity limits, real-time asset usage, and effectiveness.​ This is achieved by production planning and tracking, empowering interested parties to evaluate production efficiency and identify areas of congestion. Improve visibility and reporting by acquiring data from different manufacturing operations. Digital manufacturing operations enable evidence-based examinations of present environment opportunities to enhance quality and productivity. The data will also underscore areas where investment or divestment might be beneficial.

Explore groundbreaking ways to interact with your CAD data using AI. In this session, coolOrange CEO Marco Mirandola will dive into how integrating Azure AI search capabilities and Azure OpenAI language models with Vault software can transform data management. Discover how natural language queries can simplify searches for specific components, and see how Azure Cognitive Services can analyze and classify CAD data, offering insights into data structure and design trends. This session will feature live prototypes, encouraging attendees to envision new AI-enhanced workflows.

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.

The complexities of managing a production can be a challenge to any production team, particularly when dealing with substantial amounts of data across various tools. Centralizing data tracking plays an essential part in optimizing the production process—a necessary strategy in any dynamic, client-centered industry where production teams need to be agile and capable of making swift adjustments to schedules and priorities. In this introductory session, we'll look at how to use Autodesk Flow Production Tracking software's cloud-based data management capabilities, demonstrated in the context of a simple games workflow. We'll explore the interface, explain the structure of data within Flow Production Tracking, and demonstrate how to use pages to track data and provide insights that decision makers can use to inform the success of their productions.

We'll explore the challenges and strategic solutions associated with our company's shift from SolidWorks software to Inventor software, as well as our simultaneous implementation of Vault software. This transition involved overcoming substantial technical and operational hurdles. We'll provide insights into the specific issues we faced during the integration process, such as legacy data compatibility, custom property migration, and user adoption. And then we'll share how we addressed these issues in order to achieve the company's goal of 10% year-on-year growth.

Are you manually compiling your Bill of Materials (BOM) or parts list? STOP! There is a better way! If you are modeling your design in Autodesk Inventor, you have everything you need to automate BOM creation, and this class will show you how. In this class, we will learn how to use the BOM manager to… Make sure that all the data is complete. Sort, order, or show the assembly structure in the BOM manager and parts list. Apply item numbering. Export the BOM/parts list for use in other systems. Join us to learn how you can reduce the time you spend on BOM creation so you can focus on designing and engineering! If you are modeling 3D designs in Autodesk Inventor and aren't taking advantage of Automated BOM creation, this class is for you! Attendees are expected to have basic proficiency in Inventor, including navigating the UI, setting up the current project, opening files, and creating part and assembly models

This presentation will focus on implementation of building information modeling (BIM) and Autodesk Platform Services within Qatar Rail Metro from a client's perspective. The key challenges we'll highlight include the collaboration of 100+ external contributors and the effective management of megadata throughout 11, simultaneous, interlinked project lifecycles (especially during operation). We'll showcase the key innovations and workflows adopted to overcome these challenges. We'll discuss integration of BIM into the project framework, emphasizing benefits gained from inception to operational excellence. We'll trace the evolution of BIM within the project and its impact on project coordination and efficiency. This session will demonstrate the current importance of BIM in enabling Qatar Rail to manage mega-assets and associated BIM data, and we'll cover the value of Autodesk Platform Services in optimizing workflows across organization to drive cost efficiencies. With future plans to double the size of metro, the presentation will showcase Qatar Rails strategy to implement connected BIM, advanced data analytics, and extended/augmented reality.

Ensuring accuracy in a large set of construction documents can be complicated. Spelling errors, missed annotation, and multiple users on a project can still waste a project's budget time when they don't need to. Automating the keynote creating and editing process can help eliminate these time wasters, saving considerable time and money for some of our most basic needs. This lesson will cover a feature in AutoCAD software that will use an Excel file as one source of truth for keynotes on construction documents. We'll create a table that will be dynamically populated with keynotes as they are used in a drawing, allowing for concise tables that, along with the Excel file, can be updated together to match for the duration of project design. Any engineering discipline using AutoCAD will be able to use this workflow.

Heathrow Airport is the fourth-busiest airport in the world, serving more than 80 million passengers annually. To improve every journey for our passengers, we need to constantly maintain and produce new assets and related digital asset information. Heathrow's goal is to create a digital ecosystem to harness the value of the data throughout the lifecycle of our assets and become a data-driven organization. We will share how to achieve digital change in a large functioning airport by harmonizing the challenges, technology, people, and processes to attain the expected outcomes and benefits. We'll show how digital transformation and our digitalization approach is minimizing rework, making delivery of our designs safer and faster. Our digital road map will reveal how to use a common data environment (CDE) supported by advanced technology, standards, and a solid training framework. Discover how we create a digital community where we can test new ideas in a real-world setting and help change to be embraced.

Arup has made a significant commitment to sustainability in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry by pledging to conduct whole life carbon assessments (WLCA) for all its building projects. This initiative is part of a broader industry movement toward responsible resource management and sustainable development. The creation of "Zero," a digital platform for carbon assessment, reflects Arup's dedication to influencing design practices and decision making toward the reduction of carbon emissions. The platform benefits from data gathered from 1,000+ projects worldwide, and has been showcased at the Global Building Forum. This session will provide an overview of collaborative efforts (including those with Autodesk) aimed at standardizing a WLCA data schema and methodologies; resolving disparities between global and local carbon data sources' using digital technology to capture, store, and enhance data quality; and extracting design recommendations from data analytics to promote global sustainability efforts.

This presentation will revolve around a large industrial project to demonstrate the data workflow from design through construction, as well as the site data gathering for data visualization. By using the following software platforms—BIM 360 software, Assemble, BIM Track, Primavera P6, and Microsoft Power BI—the information from this project’s different components is visualized and combined in Power BI. Dax and M language in Power BI are utilized to manipulate raw data. Metric-based results in Power BI dashboards are organized tab by tab in accordance with different analytical functionality. We’ll give detailed examples to represent the information cross-referencing between the disciplines. This presentation will help different stakeholders track the progress of projects from qualitative and quantitative perspectives based on locations.

Challenging the deconstruction and decontamination of a former industrial site: the refinery of Dunkerque in France. From a huge data sets of 30 000 old plans and a dynamic scan of a 90Ha area, the low LOD Revit models were made manually but also automatically using IA with image recognition. The representations of the contamination and lithology is modelled with voxels and informed using interpolation scripts with Dynamo directly from georeferenced boreholes stored in excel datasheets. The aim of this BIM model is to create scenariis of depollution depending of what is located underground : pipes, concrete and pollutants.