Both Vault Professional software and Fusion 360 Manage software enable you to delegate, track, and manage your data changes. While Vault Professional focuses on CAD-related changes, Fusion 360 Manage enables you to manage any data stored in the application. With powerPLM, COOLORANGE offers an easy-to-use and flexible tool to combine Fusion 360 Manage and Vault Professional processes. This class demonstrates how to use powerPLM to synchronize CAD design changes between Fusion 360 Manage and Vault Professional.

When a company purchases Fusion 360 Manage for their organization, they are typically looking to manage their Items and Bills of Materials (BOMs), the change process that goes along with it, and Quality processes. What some customers don't realize though, is that they don't have to stop there with managing workflows within Fusion 360 Manage. Since the tool has the capabilities of building a workspace from scratch, and more importantly, the ability to build any workflow with the workflow editor, they are really only limited by their imaginations in terms of what business processes they manage with Fusion 360 Manage. This course will provide a variety of Customer examples of "Outside the Box" workflows that they are managing using Fusion 360 Manage. Each customer's challenges, solutions, and outcomes will be outlined. In addition, we will discuss the Return on Investment each customer realized by implementing these Outside the Box workflows.

The Fusion 360 Manage App Store is a collection of free, ready-to-implement workspaces that contain business processes and templates. Benefit from industry best-practices with pre-configured fields, tabs, workflows, roles, and permissions. Fusion 360 Manage apps reduce implementation time and enhance ROI during your Fusion 360 Manage deployment. Apps can be tried with User Acceptance Testing before going live, as they contain scripts, reports, picklists, and everything needed. Your Fusion 360 Manage tenant administrator adds the Roles to Groups and anyone within the Group can start using the app.

Our expertise can get your Vault data and Fusion 360 Manage processes configured and connected, efficiently and according to your unique business process requirements. We know what it takes to build a successful production system, and can do it for you too, because we’ve done it before.

This session is intended to educate the audience on what Fusion 360 Manage PLM is and how it can help small size businesses improve their processes. Small size organizations are often afraid of implementing a PLM system due the fear of implementation costs. They make the assumption that Fusion 360 Manage PLM is only for large businesses. I would like to use this session to talk about the out-of-the-box functionalities of Fusion 360 Manage PLM and how they can help small size companies utilize PLM without spending $$$. To be more specific about the content of this session, we will be looking at some of the industry challenges that small size businesses face today and how PLM can help them with Bill of Materials (BOM) management, Change Management and Project Management.

At its core, Fusion 360 Manage software is used to manage parts, assemblies, and the change process associated with them. But have you ever considered that Fusion 360 Manage could be used to manage the assets that are used to manufacture your parts, specifically molds? This class will cover a customer use case in which they built a workspace to manage the development of their molds and a second workspace to manage the use of their molds in production. We'll cover topics such as: how to utilize the grid tab to manage the daily shots in each mold; how that can trigger warning emails to indicate abnormalities with production; and how the mold relationship back to the parts and assemblies workspace can provide management with a snapshot of life expectancy of each mold.

This session will demonstrate how to extend Fusion 360 Manage using ForgeFlow. ForgeFlow is a suite of pre-built, configurable Autodesk Forge integrations available by subscription. ForgeFlow includes powerful administration tools for Fusion 360 Manage that extends and increases the value of product lifecycle management (PLM) for your business.

Autodesk Fusion 360 has rapidly arrived in deeply integrated Autodesk Vault & Inventor enterprise environments. Entire departments and suppliers often strategically align their complete designs on Fusion 360. The new challenge for CAD Managers is to find ways on how Fusion 360 data can be integrated into Inventor data is managed in Autodesk Vault Professional. This class will focus on collaboration ways to complement vault-managed Inventor datasets with Fusion 360 designs. Given the growing Fusion 360 usage and the existence of complex Fusion datasets we’ll also cover the Inventor integration into Fusion 360. New and known Autodesk Vault capabilities to smoothly facilitate collaboration workflows will CAD Managers provide approaches to be well-prepared for desktop and cloud-based data management.

Cheaper, Faster, Better? Pick 2? Why, when you can have all 3! When planning to tie processes and data sources together there’s no better option than utilizing Fusion 360 Manage and Autodesk Vault Pro to put them all in one place. This class will showcase the journey of a mid size company with the audacity to create a global solution to unite resources and projects in that one instance on a global scale. We will walk through the steps and missteps along the way and what to look out for on your journey.

Bills of materials (BOMs) serve several purposes throughout a product lifecycle. While BOM data is usually created by CAD designers and managed in product data management (PDM) systems such as Vault software, it also needs to be shared with departments outside engineering where BOM information is used for production planning, assembling, or purchasing. Each of these steps requires a different view of the same BOM. Sometimes BOMs even need to be extended with information such as "work stages" or "work orders.” Sharing and enriching BOM information is usually done in systems other than Vault, such as Fusion 360 Manage or enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. This class will explore bills of materials and their different uses. We'll showcase different ways to share BOM data among product lifecycle management (PLM) systems, PDM systems, and ERP systems. And we’ll analyze the available APIs to help you implement BOM workflows among Vault Professional (PDM), Fusion 360 Manage (PLM), and ERP systems.

Fusion 360 software installs and runs on Windows 10 and macOS, just like traditional applications. However, all of Fusion 360 software’s data is synchronized to the Autodesk Cloud, hosted on Amazon Cloud servers, which provides numerous data management benefits. Having a high-level understanding of how Fusion 360 stores its data is critical for business owners who have chosen to use Fusion 360 as their digital design and manufacturing tool. What isn’t obvious to business owners is this: The first employee to set up and use Fusion 360 in their business becomes the owner of all the data created with Fusion 360. This class will explain why and how business owners or IT managers can make sure they have control over their companies’ intellectual property.

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.

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.

Modern consumer products and industrial machines are made up of hundreds or thousands of components to form large assemblies. These components could be machined, 3D printed, moulded, electrical, electronic, or off the shelf items using various manufacturing and design processes. Effectively managing these assemblies can be a real challenge for companies with multi-disciplinary teams who simultaneously contribute to the project from all Fusion 360 workspaces. This technical instruction will provide attendees with techniques and methods to improve their development process when creating large assemblies. Such methods will include: Simplifying into sub-assemblies, using top-down or bottom-up modelling where appropriate, using the manage extension for data traceability and simplifying geometry with configurations to reduce the load on the PC. Attendees will learn new and improved ways to optimize their product development and collaborative processes.

In the real world, one program just can’t do it all. Sketching, massing models, final design, animation, and rendering of engineering models—this class will discuss the workflow for using multiple Autodesk products in a production environment. Discover the ins and outs of this workflow, starting with a simple model, moving to using Generative Design in Fusion 360 software for a final model, then shifting to 3ds Max software and Arnold to render the final animation. Explore how Fusion 360 Team software can help manage the workflow files, review the Fusion 360-to-3ds Max import process, and see how to render photo quality images. Learn how to use Physical Materials, the Physical Camera, and adjust the scene exposure to get a good rendering. Get ahead of the competition by learning to create realistic animations from your Fusion 360 models.

Last year we did a class (“How to Use Fusion 360 and Inventor for Effective Designs”) where we linked Fusion 360 files with Inventor using Desktop Connector. The most requested addition to that was to link those files into Vault software, so this year we’ll go through some of the different configurations for how we can load and manage these Fusion 360 files in Vault. Some of the things we will look at include creating the connection and adding the files, as well as managing the files; and we’ll also discuss version and revisions of the files in Vault.

Fusion 360 Manage (F3M) can facilitate the dream of an online and integrated world for process management. This tool provides many industry-standard processes already loaded into the system, but one size does not always fit all. Whether young or established, capture your processes quickly. Many get star-struck by F3M only to get caught up in how customizable it can be and try to get every detail right. This approach tends to impair. The best approach is to weave together the principles of starting simply, utilizing the out-of-the-box processes, avoiding perfectionism, and putting user adoption first. This will manifest in a faster return on investment. Do not get left with an imperfect perfected process with nothing to show for your hard work. Lean towards being agile, building simply on the system foundations, with the user always at the forefront of your plans. Ultimately, user adoption leads to happy Directors and CEOs who have not wasted their money, and we all want that.

Imagine the possibilities of a fully digitized company in parallel with the real physical entity in an AI-based learning environment. This “digital twin” is described as an instance in the Metaverse. Now imagine a universal, bi-directional communication learning component that auto operates machinery based on key datasets including web traffic, inventory, and even utility electric consumption. No need to imagine, because we’re perfecting the platform. With the support of Lenovo’s powerful workstations & NVIDIA’s Omniverse we now have the ability to research the use of digital twin technologies as a real viable technological solution. Fusion360 is the launching point in design for workflow simulation in a dream ecosystem. In this industry talk, Aram Goganian of Predator Cycling, discusses the application of Fusion360 as a key facilitator for the integration of design, simulation, part management, & 3D print preparation within the development of workflow software system, Ayowork.

Autodesk now has Fusion 360 Manage Extension, Upchain, Fusion 360 Manage, and Vault PLM (Fusion 360 Manage connected to Vault). You know PLM could benefit your organization, but don’t know where to start. We have helped many customers navigate the options they have and identify which PLM solution would benefit them the most, we can help you too.

As companies have adopted Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage to handle their company's engineering data, how many other systems are you using to handle everything else? Is it just via email, if so how is the tracking? Are you paying for other systems additionally? At Owens Corning, we have taken the PLM system and tailored it to meet the other areas of use in the office. This session will display the thoughts and concepts used to develop a robust system to be used for all aspects of a company relating them to the projects that we work on.