In this class, we’ll discuss how our company moved from a system that relied on email to collect and store vendor ECs to a system in Fusion Lifecycle software that stores attachments as well as workflows and approvals. Relying on emails was both inefficient and prone to losing documents. This did not align well with our quality process. We’ll detail the requirements and how we were able to easily clone our current change-management workspace with minor modifications in order to quickly meet the demands of our business. A big component of the quick implementation was the ability to clone what we had and make changes. Cloning let us not only implement in a matter of a few months instead of a year or more, but we were also able to use the familiarity that users have with the original workspace to supply a quick turnaround on training.

This will be a guide to understanding how CAD data benefits print, digital, and immersive deployments involving augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). We will look at a strategic and tactical approach to implementing CAD data into CG visualization and immersive developments for training and technical communication within manufacturing. This talk will focus on the benefits and pitfalls of translating CAD data into functional CG assets for print (ILT), digital (WBT), and immersive (AR/ VR) deployments. Topics will include: better utilizing your product lifecycle management (PLM) and specific export formats into 3ds Max software; and creating Levels of Development (LODs) to target high-resolution output (print and animation) and low-resolution for real-time environments (AR/VR). We’ll also discuss why UV unwrap is painful but necessary for “the bake” and methods that embrace it. Lastly, building immersive experiences doesn’t always mean its training material.

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 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.

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.

This sessions is intended to illustrate a series of "pro tips" and best practices for efficient product development. We will be introducing and demonstrating some undiscovered gems in Upchain's capabilities and sharing examples of how they can be utilised to save time, costs, and improve user experience at the very least. We will go over how Upchain handles traditional PDM/PLM functions (i.e. facilitating part reuse) and also showcasing new modern capabilities that never existed in legacy systems.

In today’s world to design any product, we need two major things, Input and Software. We already have a software which can help in designing a product and input comes from the OEM which wants the product. What if we have a database which is having an input, what OEM is providing. With the help of AI-ML we can create a ecosystem which will fetch the exact data from PLM and import it in Fusion 360. This will help in reducing the extra man hours and cost for building any product. By way of illustration Consider creating a car seat in the automotive business. H Point, Range for recliners, Track, and Height Adjustment are all major factors to consider while designing a seat structure. When the appropriate inputs are given, there are significant Tier 1 providers with vast amount of data that can assist in locating the correct seat. Consider integrating PLM with AI/ML, which can help reduce the amount of effort/time/money necessary to build the seats and to improve the product further.

For the Equipment Manufacturer of OLED production, followings are key scope of the project - Product Portfolio Management - CAD Data management - Change Management ( Engineering Change Request, Engineering Change Order) - BOM management - New Product introduction for the equipment of OLED

Product lifecycle management (PLM) systems such as Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage software or Upchain run in the cloud while Vault software and most enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are still installed on-premises. Hidden behind firewalls, on-premises software cannot directly receive update notifications from cloud applications, and have difficulty synchronizing with changes from cloud systems. Polling data from large data sets is time consuming and inefficient. Automated synchronization and digital transformation of data between hybrid PDM, PLM, and ERP systems require more-sophisticated solutions. This class will demonstrate how to efficiently send data from cloud to on-premise systems. We’ll use different examples to demonstrate how the Autodesk Forge Webhooks API and Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage Action Scripts are used to automatically update entities in Vault software, or how cloud PLM systems automatically send Bill of Materials (BOM) data to on-premise ERP systems without the need for the on-premise software to poll for data.

"One of the biggest hurdles in using an STL mesh model for a downward manufacturing application is the lack of geometry feature information in the STL file. This class will demonstrate how machine learning techniques can be applied to extract geometrical information from mesh models; and explain the process of building machine learning models, feature engineering for mesh data, and parameter tuning. We will also cover Autodesk Forge integration for data translation and viewing; and demonstrate how to use AWS cloud infrastructure such as GPU computing for big data and AWS Lambda for fast online predictions."

They say it takes people, process, and technology for any new implementation to be successful; my experience has taught me that the reality is exactly in that order. In this class, you will learn about our experiences in implementing and managing Autodesk Vault Professional software and training our staff to use it. Drawing on experiences from our implementation of Autodesk PLM 360, we will discuss Specialist Marine Interiors' experience throughout the implementation. You will hear what we have achieved and how we got there, including lessons learned and best practices. We will also cover the details of how to set up workspaces in Autodesk PLM 360, including configuration details and concepts.

Manufacturing companies are under increasing pressure to provide unique products to their customers, while at the same time improving their overall efficiency. In this session, we will explore how a configurator technology built on Forge, in conjunction with Fusion Lifecycle software and Vault software, provides a seamless and integrated solution to achieve increased sales, reduced engineering cycle times, and ultimately greater efficiency. Using only a web browser, sales staff or even prospective customers can configure a product to their unique requirements and receive immediate visual feedback and a professional quotation. When they are ready to order, information will flow seamlessly to both Fusion Lifecycle and Vault. Additional Vault customization will provide additional downstream data, such as DXF files—all automated using Vault software's lifecycle engine. This session is certain to open your eyes to excellent processes for optimal efficiency, integration, and automation.

This session will give you inspiration regarding how to improve your workflows by making them digital and transparent to every employee inside your organization. For example, if your company is using external and/or hired resources to get peaks in the workload done faster, imagine a digital workflow that will make that resource be up and running on your processes, workflows, and procedures in no time. This session is a good fit if your company employs between 2 and 100 people with high-quality standards and procedures.

In this class you will hear firsthand from one of our customers, Parker Hannifin Corporation, regarding how the firm deployed Vault software from a small group of 30 users to what is now over 1500 active users. You will also learn how the firm is using Autodesk PLM 360 software to manage the other processes that support engineering, quality, costing, quoting, and supplier management, and you will see how this enables the firm to use cloud-based PLM collaboration to extend the product data management productivity and increase the time to market of products and services.

The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry is going through yet another technological revolution. As cloud technology usage increases, third-party software companies attempt to expand our ability to utilize project data and automate BIM (Building Information Modeling) processes like never before. To assist in pushing the BIM boundaries or bridging the gap between new software and legacy systems, companies are hiring software developers to architect custom software solutions that will forge (pun intended) the future. However, many AEC firms struggle to get the most out of their developers. Establishing the product owner role at your firm can help. This presentation will address the responsibilities and benefits of an AEC product owner. These topics will be discussed from the viewpoints of virtual design and construction (VDC) personnel looking for a new challenge, an acting product owner, and how developers benefit from the role.

Working with large sites and long roadways can be a challenging design task. Setting up sheets, checking the scales, and consistently creating viewports with content that flows through the design are all part of the project. With the plan production tools in Civil 3D software, you can automate the process of creating these types of sheets quickly. We will explore how to use these tools to create multiple plan sheets, plan and profile sheets, and sections on multiple layouts, which ties it all together in a sheet set ready for publishing your deliverable. Let’s get productive and learn how to optimize the production of final plans and profile drawings.

Connecting engineering (Vault software) with purchase (ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning) is a mandatory step. Nowadays, technology helps, as most ERP systems provide APIs or the like. This session will show you how Vault and ERP can be connected in a direct way, so operations are immediate, data is kept just once (no data redundancy), and users know right away whether the action was successful or not. You will see a live integration between Vault and Microsoft Dynamics NAV, and we will also talk about other ERP systems like SAP, and others.

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.

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.