In this course you will learn how Inphi Corporation has capitalized on the Autodesk PLM 360 solution to manage its Enterprise business processes; including new product introduction, items and BOMs, change management, quality management, supplier management and much more. Share Inphi’s excitement about being able to improve visibility to project managers, executives, and indeed the entire global organization by incorporating all of these business applications onto a single platform. Understand how Inphi has improved compliance to their NPI and Quality processes by implementing task management with workflow validation and a tiered approval process.  Learn how Inphi tracks their development process through the use of connected, but dedicated, workspaces for Engineering, Marketing and Operations. See how Inphi leverages Jitterbit to integrate with several other business systems such as salesforce.com, Oracle EBS, and Autodesk Vault. By attending this class, you will go on a tour of how Autodesk PLM 360 has transformed Inphi’s business and could potentially transform yours as well.  

What is PLM?  How do I know if I am ready for product lifecycle management (PLM)? How complicated is it to set up Autodesk PLM 360 software? Are you currently managing your day-to-day workflows by emailing your Microsoft Excel spreadsheets around? Do you wish there was a better way to organize the state of your products within the manufacturing timeline. Have you wondered about PLM but thought it probably wasn't for you? This discussion will be a great opportunity to see how customers (especially from smaller companies with few employees) can take advantage of Autodesk PLM 360 software. In this discussion we will showcase how some of the basic workflows work, how they can apply to your workflow, and how implementing Autodesk PLM 360 software will have an immediate impact on your efficiency. We will discuss and show examples of workflows, milestones, and approvals—what we ship out of the box and what level of implementation you should consider.

It’s a fact. Construction companies depend on the accuracy, reliability, and consistency of the data they collect on-site to manage a successful project. From punch-listing to logging safety observations, many of today’s methods for collecting and managing that data fall short of optimum effectiveness and efficiency. We will expose you to new mobile technology that will change your way of thinking about how this data can be collected and used. You will gain an understanding of why customizing and optimizing this process is so important, as well as how the data can be imported into a Building Information Modeling (BIM) environment for use in trend analysis.

Autodesk BIM 360 is a data-centric, cloud-based BIM management solution that provides easy, ubiquitous access to the project model, data, and collaborative workflows, regardless of authoring tools. Based on the Horizontal Glue™ technology that is currently used by leading construction, owner, and design firms, the class will focus on improved day-to-day processes for model coordination and collaboration across the entire project team. Join our gurus as they take us through Autodesk BIM 360 services and demonstrate multidiscipline model aggregation, clash management, and collaboration in the cloud.

Sun Tzu posits, “Every battle is won or lost before it’s ever fought.” When it comes to product lifecycle management and product data management (PLM/PDM) adoption in your company, no truer words have ever been spoken. Setting the executive stage, preparing and scoping the project(s), and defining key adoption milestones and criteria are crucial components to transforming your organization into a global manufacturing juggernaut. Experts from Autodesk, Inc., will teach you how to approach the definition, scoping, estimating, and adoption of PLM/PDM processes in your organization. Take a behind-the-scenes tour of how Autodesk Global Services approaches helping you get there with Fusion Lifecycle software, Vault software, and our many authoring tools. Your competitors are all chasing “design anywhere, build everywhere.” We’re here to help you get there first! This session features PLM 360 (now Fusion Lifecycle), Fusion Lifecycle, and Vault Professional.

Vault software helps customers to manage construction data in a worldwide, collaborative environment. This class is designed to assist you in defining and implementing Vault software in a worldwide collaboration context with PLM and DMS systems. We share experiences, approach (Governance Methode), and advice from an ongoing customer project that will help you identify tasks and tools to implement business processes between Vault and PLM and DMS systems.

This lecture will cover planned functionality for Autodesk’s product data management software. This session will feature Vault Professional software.

Like a recipe or business card, items represent things within your business. Items represent the components that the company manages, assembles, sells, and manufactures. Autodesk Vault Professional software introduces the ability to generate items and manage an item master. Within this class you will learn what items are and how to provide both engineering staff and non-engineering (no access to a CAD application) with access to the data. We will cover how to issue new stock numbers and build intelligent naming schemes. You will learn how to attach your CAD data smartly with proper property (metadata) information mapping. You will also learn how to provide a mechanism for exchange of data between Vault and enterprise resource planning (ERP), manufacturing resource planning (MRP), and product lifecycle management (PLM) systems. We will discuss release management for lifecycles and revision schemes. You will learn how to create bills of materials (BOMs) for your items. Finally, we will cover change orders and how items are integrated.

As client and project requirements become more and more complex, the need to manage information in Autodesk Revit software and data connected to Revit becomes exceedingly important. This class will survey the landscape of tools available to aid in this task, including tools for family and parameter management as well as specific tools for program management. Autodesk® Vault software, dRofus, Microsoft® Access®, Microsoft® Excel® tools and others will be covered. During the class, we will touch on project experience with many of these tools and provide guidance on how to approach many data management challenges in Revit.

This class will demonstrate the introduction of a new CAD drawing created in Autodesk PLM 360 software and the integration of Vault software and Inventor software using the Engineering Change Request lifecycle and the Engineering Change Notice lifecycles. We will also review effective practices, lessons learned, and advantages of using an integrated business system environment. We'll show a real live demonstration of Vacco Industries' Autodesk PLM 360 software configuration and we'll demonstrate the use of the PLM Connect tool (JitterBit).

When used together, Vault Professional software and Fusion Lifecycle software provide a combined solution that is the best of all worlds for product data management (PDM) and product lifecycle management (PLM). While Vault runs on-premise to keep your CAD data safe behind your firewall, Fusion Lifecycle is cloud based for flexibility and ease of deployment. Sadly, this has made a seamless integration between the two difficult—until now. This class describes the benefits of the Vault Fusion Lifecycle Connector, including installation, configuration, and extensibility, so you can create a best-of-all-worlds solution.

In this class we discuss one customer's journey in selecting Autodesk PLM 360 cloud-based software for its product lifecycle management solution. We discuss why Autodesk PLM 360 was considered as a potential solution, explain how to create a trial tenant, explore the main themes of how Autodesk PLM 360 works, and discuss possible Vault integrations.

Cities are growing faster than ever. As a result, urban population growth is dramatically outpacing access to basic services, and municipalities must develop efficient sanitation and waste management solutions. Sanergy has developed an innovative way of efficiently converting sanitation and organic waste into animal feed, using insect-rearing technology. Globally, no industry has previously existed for conversion of waste to animal feed, thus, new processes needed to be designed and integrated with solutions identified in other industries. It required high levels of critical design thinking and innovative process engineering to test and validate the underpinning biology assumptions, and to develop an end-to-end approach that was capable of processing 300 tons of waste per day. The class will take you through the journey to build the first factory of its kind in Africa, covering specifically how Autodesk software (AutoCAD software and Fusion 360 software) helped to solve key engineering and environmental problems.

Product development is plagued with government regulation. If a product is intended to improve the quality of lives, or at least do no harm, then its market is probably regulated by dozens to hundreds of government organizations. We see this pattern play out in markets for medical devices, industrial equipment, vehicles, food, consumer products, and anything that might be touched by children. Product data management is a key enabler of efficient development processes, in general. This session will illustrate the challenges that have been addressed at Ascensia, a worldwide market-leading innovator in diabetes care. In the midst of organizational changes, Ascensia has deployed Fusion Lifecycle software to manage its product changes among a dizzying array of regulations and market expectations. This session will tell the story of the decisions, setbacks, and successes along the firm’s journey. Anyone concerned with managing external market requirements will appreciate this discussion.

In this class, we will cover the steps that are required to successfully install, configure, and populate Autodesk® Vault software to manage your data. We will introduce concepts, workflows, tools, and best practices. We will also discuss common mistakes that businesses make when planning and executing a Vault implementation.

What is MBD/PMI? Is this something you can or will receive from customers? Are you a mechanical engineer who thinks your company is behind and should adopt. MBD/PMI processes in your organization?

The inclusion of point cloud support inside Autodesk® Revit® software means that documenting existing facilities is now easier than ever…hypothetically. With the advent of facilities management software and operations and maintenance databases reaching out to Building Information Modeling (BIM) for visualization and representation, the workflow seems obvious. Follow us through a real example of taking a building with no drawings from laser scan data to intelligent model, then to a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) database, and finally to facilities management tools.

Explore the ins and outs of cloud-based data management with Upchain. Upchain provides cloud-based product lifecycle management (PLM) software that lets you make better products in less time. Learn how Upchain connects teams and stakeholders to their product data as it moves from idea to production, managing all the changes along the way. Upchain keeps your CAD data organized, controlled, and available to any product stakeholder anywhere in the world. Create a controlled version of your existing business process in seconds. Out-of-the-box configurations map to how you get work done, creating order out of chaos. Meanwhile, stage gates and permissions give you the structure that fast-moving product teams need. This is an introductory class for the new user to learn the ins and outs of Upchain.

Learn how recent improvements to the RISA-Revit Link have made repeated round-trips a painless process. See how new settings and options can enable you to click the Import/Export button without worrying about the consequences. This class will focus on workflow between your RISA model and your Autodesk® Revit® Structure software model, including how to handle situations where both models are being worked on simultaneously. Special emphasis will be placed on workflow strategies to ensure that both models remain as synchronized as possible throughout the design lifecycle.

Fusion 360 Manage software is great at supporting business process workflows and bridging company silos across product changes. You can also use it to pull suppliers into those processes. One of the most common ways is through the RFQs (Request for Quote) process for new parts or part revisions. Using custom workspaces, we will show how to get engineering stakeholders, procurement stakeholders, and outside vendors communicating with PLM (product lifecycle management) as a common medium. We will cover how an engineer can put out a request to the purchasing department, how purchasing can share that part with multiple vendors, and how those vendors can provide quotes for that part in their own private quote workspaces. This creates a less disjointed process and quicker costing analysis.