Reduction of waste is the main goal of any lean initiative. Learn how Factory Design Suite can help you to minimize inventory, maximize space efficiency, optimize product travel in the factory, and decrease energy costs. If you are participating in or thinking about lean manufacturing, this class will help you to meet your objectives

In the effort to digitize the construction site, project teams and company leaders are tasked with deploying new software, but adoption of new technology in construction is not as simple as buying software and training users. A structured approach to deployment of any new process or platform is essential to successful deployment. This class will demonstrate how a lean manufacturing methodology can be applied to technology deployment, specifically BIM 360 software, to drive a digital construction site.

Hear the story of how Cascadia Structural Timber Solutions went from being a small hand fabrication and truss manufacturer to a fast-growing glulam fabricator, looking to lead the way in new mass timber buildings using Informed Design in Inventor software. The mass timber industry is on the rise, and with it comes unique challenges on the jobsite. As many projects move to a hybrid of steel and wood, we need to be able to provide products that can be easily used and understood early in the design process. With Informed Design we can predefine structural members—from columns to beams to preassembled trusses—that can be added at the beginning of the design process. We can provide flexibility for our customers by giving them specific parameters they can change while still allowing the design to be easy to manufacture. With our push to implement lean manufacturing principles, these designs allow us to scale our business and increase profitability while providing a great experience for our customers.

Are you trying to reduce costs through energy efficiency and waste reduction? What insights do you need from your design and manufacturing tools to help you become ultra-lean? Does your company have sustainability goals, or perhaps you want to develop them but need help? We're all ears. Join the Autodesk Sustainability team in an interactive discussion and learn ways to use Autodesk tools today to get more out of your resource inputs, increase productivity, and eliminate waste. We also want to know what matters most to you, what you're working on, and how we can work with you to achieve your sustainability goals while making your business more profitable.

Industrialized construction: The goal is to accelerate the pace of delivery, increase schedule certainty, and improve the flow of work. Owners and project teams are increasingly using "pop-up" near-site prefabrication facilities to achieve these outcomes. However, the promise of industrialized construction is not achieved simply by shifting the work off-site. Entering the prefab environment presents unique challenges, notably in line layout optimization, material flow, and workload balancing. Easley and Rivers—in collaboration with ICG Consulting and powered by Autodesk FlexSim technology—learned to bring together craft expertise to mitigate these risks with tried-and-true lean manufacturing methods and industrial engineering best practices. By using discrete-event simulation, the team has not only improved the reliability of delivery to the field, but it's also significantly enhanced production standards.

2024 is a pivotal year for BBI Autosport as we transition to being a small-volume, boutique vehicle development and manufacturing firm. With the evolving landscape and changing caliber of modern vehicles—and the market demand for "soulful," nostalgic but refined machines—we've found the right market for us. We're infusing our experience, creativity, and agility into this, along with a massive tech-forward approach. We're employing collaborative development, lean manufacturing, and industry 4.0 methodologies to improve margin and efficiency, and deliver a product that will (by this time) be redefining the specific market segment we're entering. We want to redefine how to make low-production vehicles, and how to have a sustainable business model while reaching near OEM levels of integration, quality, and reliability.

In recent years, industrialized construction has become a hot topic. The term “design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA)” is used in many conversations when discussing industrialized construction. We will discuss how DfMA pertains to industrialized construction, what DfMA is, and what DfMA is not.

Manufacturing tolerances have a significant impact on cost and quality. Tradeoffs can be made to ensure proper fit; however, calculating stack-ups manually introduces the potential for errors. Autodesk Inventor Tolerance Analysis is designed to help Inventor users make informed decisions while specifying manufacturing tolerances. Inventor Tolerance Analysis is a CAD-embedded, 1D solution that helps understand the mechanical fit and performance of your design based on dimensional tolerances. Stack-ups automatically capture the relationships defined in the assembly model and customers using Model-Based Definition capabilities can edit tolerance values directly inside Tolerance Analysis, further streamlining the process between design and manufacturing.

Meet the Fusion 360 Product Management team and hear about the exciting new features and improvements coming soon.

Machining departments need to deliver the highest-quality parts at the lowest cost in the least amount of time. To meet those demands and help their organizations ship quality products on time, technology is critical. When it comes to making precision round parts, multiaxis lathes that can both turn and mill a part complete on a single machine are often used. Whether you’re producing families of parts or prototypes, or making revisions to existing parts, learn how associative manufacturing tools in Fusion 360 software let you make changes to both CAD and CAM quickly and easily.

Does your business run on continuous improvement? Are you looking to decrease waste? Have you been trying to integrate lean into your business processes? Learn how Fusion Lifecycle can help evolve your business into a lean enterprise.

With increasing pressure from consumers and regulations, manufacturers need to figure out how to produce more-efficient products with reduced negative impact on the environment. Beyond reducing their pollution levels, organizations embracing sustainability save costs and are more competitive and innovative. In this class, we’ll discuss the impact and opportunities of the major trends in sustainability for designers and manufacturers. Find out how you can use Fusion 360 software to drive efficiencies and innovation in your processes that will benefit your bottom line and the planet.

In this class, we’ll go over workflow tips and modeling tricks, as well as API scripts, and toolpath recipes to take the most complicated parts and break them down into simple, manageable tasks. We’ll go over several real-world examples with the focus being on thinking less, and producing more.

Too often we focus on just one aspect of manufacturing, such as CAM toolpaths. All CAM software can produce CAM toolpaths. This class will look at the manufacturing aspects that Fusion 360 software brings beyond creating toolpaths—things competitors can’t do, or aren’t very good at doing. From integrated CAM that updates when model geometry changes, to prepping models and doing accurate simulations of not only the stock, but also the whole machine work area—this class will look beyond simply adding toolpaths to a part.

You may have thought Inventor Nesting software is just geared toward sheet metal components. Learn how to use Inventor Nesting for other types of components and materials. Even if these designs come from AutoCAD software, other 3D CAD applications, IGES/STEP, or they reside in a DXF file format, this session will cover how to use different file formats in your nesting process. From setting up your raw materials, templates, and nesting studies to exporting the results back to your computer numerical control (CNC) process, this class will clearly demonstrate that Inventor Nesting isn't just about sheet metal. In addition, this class will offer an extra bonus demonstrating how the Inventor Nesting interface can be used to optimize a saw cut list and costing study for your bar stock material

Everyone is experiencing the skills-gap change to some degree. With the increasing breadth of this issue looming over manufacturing, automated processes and efficient workflows have become paramount to every business. Many CAD/CAM products offer solutions that come close; however, they can leave people feeling overwhelmed, which causes more of a setback rather than a solution. In this class, we’ll demonstrate how the new generation of cloud and advanced manufacturing solutions will help close the gap. The goal is to communicate how Fusion 360 software and PowerMill can improve the efficiency of subtractively manufacturing your parts, increasing productivity, and complementing your existing workflows.

This class will help attendees to understand the problems caused by tolerances in manufacturing, and how to plan them out using the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection subscription benefit of the Tolerance Analysis plug-in for Inventor software. After discussing where tolerance problems come from, and discovering how tolerancing problems can affect assembly of manufactured parts, we’ll show how to analyze assemblies using Inventor Tolerance Analysis. We’ll demonstrate how to apply tolerance to native and non-native CAD data. We’ll demonstrate how Tolerance Analysis provides bidirectional support with Inventor software’s 3D annotation and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) model-based definition (MBD). We’ll discuss how to interpret the results of the analysis and show how to share a report of the results. We’ll give tips and tricks on how to get the best out of Tolerance Analysis. If we have time, we’ll discuss what’s already available inside Inventor for Tolerance Analysis that is available to non-Product Design & Manufacturing Collection customers.

This class will be an introduction or reintroduction to Inventor software. It will also go into general detail about a lot of the common issues that come up on the Inventor Forum. It is generally understood that there are many intermediate and advanced Inventor sessions at Autodesk University; however, sometimes you need to go back to the basics and introduce or reintroduce people to some of these features they might or might not know or understand—whether it’s how to find them, or how to use them. This session features Inventor Professional 2020—2017 software. (The handout will have some Inventor 2016 information)

The Fusion Lifecycle implementation has been finalized and your users are navigating the system—so what's next? How do you handle managing the ongoing support requirements and demands from your users for new features or issues? Whether this is a new or mature tenant, ignoring and remaining complacent in acknowledging and managing those requests for support may lead to adoption challenges and grievances with the system. In this class, we will cover the creation and administration of such a process, and share lessons learned from case studies on how this process is working for customer tenants today.