23 Results for "FlexSim"
Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Connecting Digital Prototyping: FlexSim and Factory Design Utilities Demo and Road Map
This session will focus on the new interoperability between Factory Design Utilities software and FlexSim, showcasing the access of the Factory Design Utilities library in FlexSim as well as the export of a factory layout from FlexSim to a Factory Design Utilities tool. We’ll also share future development plans for FlexSim and Factory Design Utilities and what Autodesk is doing for the Factory Design Utilities space.
34p
Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Elevating Factory Design: FlexSim and the Future of Autodesk Fusion Digital Factory
This session will showcase a new workflow of creating a factory layout in Autodesk Factory Design Utilities software and using FlexSim to validate the throughput of the layout, identify potential bottlenecks, and balance resource use. We will also discuss the product roadmap for Factory Design Utilities and FlexSim, as well as the vision for Autodesk Fusion digital factory. Learn how Autodesk is paving the way to connected data and seamless workflows in the Autodesk Fusion industry cloud, as well as enabling factory designers and industrial engineers to validate factory layout designs.
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Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Automating Process Optimization with AI: The FlexSim Optimizer and Live Digital Prototypings
Process bottlenecks and related issues often require complex and dynamic solutions. Discover how FlexSim recommends process improvements from live data, and see how the FlexSim OptQuest optimization engine solves multidimensional problems. OptQuest uses machine learning to evaluate multiparameter input groups in order to strategically determine optimal outcomes across various performance objectives. This method provides faster and more intelligent solutions to intricate problems than manual techniques do. In scenarios with constantly evolving operational inputs, FlexSim can be configured as a live Digital Prototyping, continuously operating at set intervals, and using live data streams based on system feedback and artificial intelligence (AI) predictions. This approach necessitates specific model programming, which we will explore. By implementing these advanced techniques, businesses can significantly improve their process optimization capabilities, addressing complex challenges more effectively than traditional methods allow.
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Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026
"Level 4" Live "What-If" Digital Twins for Manufacturing Using FlexSim

Flex has more than 100 facilities in more than 30 countries worldwide, manufacturing a wide range of products across seven different categories. To extend our forecasting capabilities, Flex GISE (global industrial and system engineering) simulation teams developed a web-based comprehensive (Level 4) digital twin application that users can adapt to support different types of manufacturing. The tool combines the FlexSim web server and advanced data-acquisition capabilities to deliver accurate, real-time forecasting and scenario-based decision support. It combines live production data with simulation, enabling users even those with limited simulation expertise to perform "what-if" analyses through an intuitive interface.

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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
Watt Happens Next? Predicting the Factory Experience Energy Usage with Helios in FlexSim
As Sustainable Design becomes central to factory operations, accurate insights into energy consumption are essential. In this talk, we’ll showcase FlexCon Helios, a third-party module for FlexSim that simulates, tracks, and analyses the energy use, power requirements, and indirect carbon emissions of manufacturing systems. Using the AU Factory Live experience as a real-world testbed, we’ll show how Helios enabled detailed simulation of energy usage across the live production setup. We’ll walk through the model and demonstrate how the tool integrates with FlexSim using Energy Use Policies and Energy Source objects. And we’ll explore how this approach helps manufacturers test system configurations and energy scenarios, analyze peak power demands and infrastructure needs, and estimate carbon emissions and energy costs over time. Whether you're developing Digital Prototypings or prioritizing Sustainable Design, this talk will show how energy-aware simulation enables smarter, greener decisions.
Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026
Save Time and Improve Quality: Dynamic Factory Design with Factory Design Utilities, Revit, and FlexSim Integrations
Discover how combining Factory Design Utilities, Revit, and FlexSim software transforms facility design through seamless integration of 2D layouts, 3D models, and process simulation. This case study will demonstrate significant time savings by eliminating redundant updates across platforms and enabling engineering teams to make objective, data-driven decisions with less rework. This class will present the end-to-end Factory Design Utilities workflow, showing how AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit, and FlexSim software work together to enable rapid, realistic simulations and models. Engineers from Jacobs will share real project examples demonstrating ROI, cost savings, and how simulations validate designs, communicate decisions, and extend value into production planning and continuous improvement.
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Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
Digital Factory Summit | From Spreadsheets to Simulation: M2X's Journey of Factory Simulation with FlexSim
This project addresses the challenge of optimizing a highly labor-intensive manufacturing process for GTM systems at M2X Energy, where welding and pipe fabrication dominate both cycle time and total hours. Traditional spreadsheet-based analysis lacks the ability to capture dynamic interactions between resources, workflows, and constraints. Using FlexSim software, we built a discrete-event simulation of the factory to model real-world operations, identify bottlenecks, and make accurate process decisions based on data. Combined with design inputs such as weld reduction strategies, this approach enables data-driven decisions to reduce manufacturing hours, improve throughput, and support scalable factory and product design.
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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
From 2D Chaos to 3D Clarity: How IMI Critical Engineering Transformed Manufacturing with FlexSim
Discover how IMI Critical Engineering, a greenfield manufacturing facility, overcame the limitations of traditional 2D CAD models by moving to 3D simulation modeling. Relying on 2D layouts led to inefficiencies, high error rates, and communication barriers between engineering, operations, and leadership teams. This session will explore how IMI used FlexSim software’s advanced features—such as process flow, SQL queries, and video recording—to achieve significant improvements in efficiency, accuracy, and collaboration. By visualizing the production process in a dynamic 3D environment, the team identified bottlenecks, iterated designs more effectively, and minimized costly errors before implementation. Read real-life case studies to learn how this Management reduced errors, optimized workflows, and streamlined decision making, ultimately leading to higher productivity, better resource use, and sustainable growth for IMI.
47p
Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2026
From 2D Layout to 3D Simulation: A Digital Factory Hands-On Lab
In this hands-on lab, you'll experience a connected digital factory workflow by executing it in real time. Starting with a 2D factory layout in AutoCAD using Factory Design Utilities, you'll convert it into a 3D model in Inventor with a single click and bring it into FlexSim for simulation. The lab will also demonstrate how design changes are synchronized across AutoCAD, Inventor, and FlexSim, ensuring a connected workflow and reducing manual rework. You'll gain practical skills to move from layout to simulation in minutes.
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Instructional Demo / San Diego 2024
Power Up: Energy-Use Simulations for Greener Factories
The industry is responsible for a significant part of the global GHG emissions from energy. It is crucial that modern organizations understand energy use in their production facilities. Energy-use planning should consider not only the total amount consumed, but also timing—taking into account intermittent renewable generation, dynamic pricing, and variable CO2 intensity. On-site generation and energy storage cannot be evaluated without a model of the production process. FlexSim is a simulation product that has been used in manufacturing applications for more than 20 years. Flexcon Helios extends general-purpose FlexSim and can specify power requirements for different phases of any process modeled in FlexSim. The simulation can predict a realistic power curve, and the Flexcon Helios module allows users to define a dynamic policy on how energy sources are used. If coupled with an intermittency model, dynamic pricing, or CO2 intensity data, this approach can assess the total costs and carbon footprint of the process.
84p
Industry Talk / Nashville 2025
Digital Prototyping Summit | Mirror Worlds: Digital Prototypings and the Era of Predictive Intelligence
Unlock the full potential of your asset data with Autodesk Digital Prototyping solutions. This session will explore how Digital Prototypings—spanning both physical assets and operational processes—support the entire lifecycle: design, build, operate, and maintain. Autodesk Tandem software creates rich production twins using live sensor data and structured taxonomy. FlexSim delivers dynamic process flow simulations that model people and operations. Together, they form a connected digital thread, from concept to reuse, enabling smarter decisions, reducing waste, and supporting circular economy goals. Discover how combining asset and process twins drives sustainable, resilient outcomes across buildings and infrastructure.
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54p
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
The Road to a Successful Digital Factory
With new technologies emerging, we're always on the road to explore the digital factory. In this class, we'll share the best practices and approaches regarding the digital factory. First, drive increased efficiency of the factory design and optimization based on CAD workflow and FlexSim process simulation, which is essential for the digital factory. Next, ensure the objects can be tracked throughout the whole lifecycle; we built a "Factory Object TAG Rules" system for digital delivery. Finally, connected IoT devices help realize digital twins to streamline, automate, and predict tasks. And we explore AI to reinforce human intelligence so that it can achieve more.
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36p
Hands-on Lab / Las Vegas 2026
Digital Factory Summit | Digital Twins Unplugged: Platforms, Practices, and Lessons from the Field
Digital twins are moving from concept to reality, but success looks different for every organization. This session will bring owners, operators, technologists, and consultants together to discuss moving from digital models to operational twins. Panelists will highlight different types of digital twins, from simulation-based twins like FlexSim to operational and asset-based twins like Autodesk Tandem, enabling connected asset data and certainty from design through operations. The discussion will compare platform ecosystems, use cases, and scaling strategies across the asset lifecycle. You can expect examples, lessons learned, and open dialogue on what works and what doesn't, while connecting with peers shaping the future of digital twins.
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Instructional Demo / Las Vegas 2026
Digital Twin for Factories: Enabling Smart, Connected, and Collaborative Manufacturing
Manufacturing companies face inefficiencies from disconnected systems across factory design, engineering, and shop-floor operations. This session will demonstrate how a digital twin approach using Autodesk Tandem software integrates BIM-based factory models with live production data for smarter decisions. For greenfield projects, FlexSim integration enables simulation of layouts, production lines, and material flows before execution, optimizing throughput and reducing project risk. Energy Monitoring and Management System (EMMS) integration adds early visibility into energy and sustainability. For brownfield plants, connecting programmable logic controllers (PLCs), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), and a manufacturing execution system (MES) creates a unified operational view, enabling real-time monitoring, predictive maintenance, and bottleneck identification.
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Instructional Demo / Nashville 2025
From Legacy to Digital Prototyping: Scan. Model. Transform.
Elevating the digital maturity of our clients' factories, we aim to transform traditional manufacturing practices by transitioning from outdated paper-based drawings to the powerful concept of the Digital Prototyping. We start by scanning the facility to generate a 3D point cloud, which forms the base for architectural and MEP models in Revit software. These are imported into Inventor software, where we design and optimize the production line with machinery, conveyors, and robots. Factory Design Utilities software allows us to quickly build detailed layouts. With Navisworks software, we perform clash detection and offer virtual reality (VR) walk-throughs. FlexSim simulates the workflow to ensure efficiency. For data management, we use Vault Pro software and Autodesk Forma, while Autodesk Tandem software improves operations. This journey helps clients move beyond outdated systems and embrace the Digital Prototyping and Digital Prototyping.
48p
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
Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Delivering a Strategic Approach to Digital Twins Across the Atlas Copco Group Manufacturing Enterprise
Head of Innovation Dan Middleton reveals Edwards Vacuum's (Atlas Copco Group) strategic approach to Net Zero manufacturing using digital-twin technology. Edwards' unique approach involves an extensive digital asset library and FlexSim-optimized processes, promoting lean and agile manufacturing and rapid enhancements in production, and boosting business performance. Using a novel digital-twin approach that effectively integrates its business processes enables Edwards to evaluate the impact its operations have on market trends and business cycles, and to support investment decisions in equipment, facilities, and workforce.
Industry Talk / Las Vegas 2026
Autodesk Operations Roadmap: What's new and next in Operations
In this roadmap session, we'll explore why operations is emerging as the next frontier of digital transformation and how Autodesk is helping organizations move from disconnected systems to connected operations that continuously learn and improve. We'll share the vision behind Autodesk Operations, the market forces reshaping the industry, and the latest innovations across FlexSim, Fusion Operations, Autodesk Tandem, Autodesk Connect and more. You'll gain insight into how Autodesk is connecting Design, Make, and Operate to close the loop across the asset lifecycle, transforming operational knowledge into actionable insights that improve future decisions, optimize performance, and drive continuous improvement. Discover how this connected approach creates greater lifecycle visibility, builds operational intelligence, and lays the foundation for more predictive, proactive, and ultimately autonomous operations.
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.

 

Industry Talk / San Diego 2024
Validating Factory Design Concepts and Digital Twin Opportunities
How efficiently are your products getting from production to warehouse to shipping docks? As you consider new factory designs to improve these material-handling processes, it's critical to have a complete understanding of how your resources and processes interconnect. When Cardinal Glass wanted to optimize its material handling to minimize shipping delays from the factory, the company used simulation with FlexSim to validate its proof of concept and discover new improvement opportunities. The simulation helped to rebalance the workload and identify a reconfiguration that led to a 29% decrease in shipping operation time. This also formed the basis for a digital twin that enables real-time optimization of warehouse goods storage and dock assignments, with daily assignment, location, and maintenance recommendations.
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