Generative Design is changing how designers and engineers bring new products to market. By leading with objectives and functional requirements, Generative Design allows users to rapidly generate and explore 100’s or 1000’s of higher performing design options that would have been previously unexplored. What’s new to many – is that the value of Generative Design is not exclusive to the aerospace industry and additive manufacturing. Generative Design now has the ability to explore options for traditional manufacturing techniques as well like CNC, and provide inspiration for casting. TB Wood’s is a recognized industry leader for highly-engineered industrial machinery applications. TB Wood’s has been producing commercial castings for over 160 years, while being a global leader in the design and manufacture of couplings and belted drive solutions. Join Autodesk & TB Wood’s for an overview on how to connect the benefits of Generative Design with the industrial machinery industry.

Digital Transformation is the hot topic in the industrial machinery industry - but, what does digital transformation mean to you? What problem(s) are you facing? What needs to change? Why digital transformation? How will we recognise success? In which part of your business does transformation need to occur? Sales? Logistics? Inventory? Design and manufacturing? All of these! In this round table for Industrial machinery leaders, we'll discuss current industry trends and pressures, share considerations for effective change and debate how we can measure the success (and failure!) of our digital transformation initiatives. Join the best minds in the industry to help you find answers and clarify your goals and approach to digital transformation in Industrial machinery.

This class will cover the basics of finite element analysis (FEA) and explore examples (including linear stress, modal-to-heat transfer, and dynamic simulations) in order to gain additional insight and improve product design for automotive, oil and gas, and industrial machinery industries.

In this class, we start with an overview of how simulation can be used during the complete design process. Simulation enables our customers to stand out from their competition because they can be more innovative and get to market faster while ensuring product quality. We cover several tools, including Autodesk® Force Effect™ and Dynamic Simulation in Inventor® 3D CAD software. We look at sloshing by performing a CFD analysis with Autodesk® Simulation CFD software, and we use Autodesk® Simulation Mechanical software to analyze vibrations.

This is our introduction class for the finite element analysis (FEA) with Autodesk Nastran Power Track. In this session we will introduce the Autodesk Nastran Power Track speakers and all the classes included in this power track. This class will cover the basics of FEA and explore examples (including linear stress, modal-to-heat transfer, and dynamic simulations) in order to gain additional insight and improve product design for automotive, oil and gas, and industrial machinery industries.

As part of Fusion 360 Ultimate software, Autodesk Generative Design is the new design space tool for designers and engineers capitalizing on the power of cloud and artificial intelligence (AI). During this class, we are going to discover how to use it for expanding and increasing the innovation on machinery industries effecting products’ performance and production costs. We will use real customer examples.

More the connection speed, more the reaction time, so interoperability plays a vital role in our day-to-day design collaboration that helps with flexible production lines and reduced integration costs. Many industrial machinery and manufacturing industries have realized the benefits of using both 2D and 3D CAD software together and the list of reasons is long, including better collaboration, increased efficiency and to name a few. In those cases, it’s important that your data remains fully associative. In all such scenarios, AutoCAD Mechanical provides a feature called "Inventor link" that enables you to link Autodesk Inventor assembly (.iam) and part (.ipt) documents to a drawing file and display the 3D model in model space. After that, you can generate 2D drawings of the 3D model in paper space and annotate them. This class aims to show how well you can make use of the Inventor link feature in AutoCAD Mechanical for increased efficiency, reduced time, and better collaboration.

This class will outline the real case study of virtual reality (VR) technology adoption by Tenova, an industrial machinery company for mining and metals, supported by Autodesk Consulting. After a brief introduction to Tenova and the project’s background, attendees will see activities run by Autodesk Consulting and Tenova to lead to the adoption of a tailored process for using VR for design review and visualization. The audience will see the workflow implemented, and they’ll learn the process to use 3ds Max software and 3ds Max Interactive to navigate a Filmbox file with Live Viewer. Come and learn the best practices to follow for VR.

This class will look at how Alias software and VRED software enable the design and visualization of heavy machinery and equipment.

Fusion 360 software now offers a simple workflow for programming industrial robot arms. Anyone familiar with post-processing machine code from Fusion 360 can now create robot code in the same way. During this lab, users will use the manufacturing space from Fusion 360 to generate robot native code that can drive industrial robot arms. First, we will show a generic robot workflow within Fusion 360 that will post with the ABB post processor. Then, we will cover exporting code into a virtual robot simulator, ABB RobotStudio, for validation. We’ll then pivot to recordings at Autodesk Technology Centers, explaining calibration of various coordinate systems localizing the robot arm and robot operation for milling applications. We’ll introduce other applications that participants can use with this workflow, such as welding and additive. Finally, we will share various case studies from Autodesk Technology Center residents and customers utilizing Fusion 360 for industrial robots.

From water and steam power, to interchangeable parts, to the assembly line, to computer-based production, manufacturers have always adapted to the opportunities presented by technological change. Now, the industry is at the cusp of yet another new era, one marked by pervasive connectivity and communications, powerful advances in simulation and design tools, and production technologies that hold the promise of changing the paradigm of manufacturing itself.How should manufacturers think about, evaluate and take advantage of the possibilities with technologies such as additive manufacturing, crowd sourcing, and distributed models of production?

From water and steam power, to interchangeable parts, to the assembly line, to computer-based production, manufacturers have always adapted to the opportunities presented by technological change. Now, the industry is at the cusp of yet another new era, one marked by pervasive connectivity and communications, powerful advances in simulation and design tools, and production technologies that hold the promise of changing the paradigm of manufacturing itself.How should manufacturers think about, evaluate and take advantage of the possibilities with increasingly intelligent and connected machines, advanced automation, and open-source hardware and software?

The demands for new homes in Scandinavia are at an extreme level and at the same time the demand for houses for public services such as nurseries, schools and other community initiatives has increased radically. At the same time, the regulations have become more stringent with demands for better, more energy efficient and sustainable buildings. The customers of today are also much more aware of the quality aspects of living and the demands on modern housing have also increased dramatically. Life quality and product quality goes hand in hand. The Nordic countries have a long tradition of prefabricating quality homes in an industrial way including 3D-modelling, automated machinery and production lines. But the increasing demands have led to a need to reform the traditional way to sell, design, and pre-construct. This has led to a shift in the industry from drawings and models to Design Automation and Data-management. BIM is becoming a necessity and automated workflows is a part of the package. By using Revit as a standardised platform for the whole process, from Sales and Marketing, Design Procurement, Preconstruction and CNC-output, and combined with specific tools and integrations to the manufacturers internal business systems great savings have been made with regards to time but also an increase in quality. By enriching the models with additional data using web-based solutions like BIM 360 and BIMeye more stakeholders can participate and share and contribute in the development. The seminar will present and demonstrate an integrated workflow through from Early design to hand over, including pre-construction, CNC and information to construction site.

Autodesk, Inc., continues to enhance Inventor software modeling providing flexible and powerful tools to perform hybrid-modeling workflows. In this class we will discuss the various modeling methods available within Inventor software, with specific focus on the new and enhanced Freeform tools in Inventor 2016 software that empower designers to quickly and easily create, explore, iterate, and optimize designs, providing a truly connected design experience. The class includes a product demonstration illustrating the creation of an automotive wing mirror housing. The complex organic form of the wing mirror model is readily applicable to other industries, such as consumer product and industrial design.

Generative design is changing the way that designers and engineers bring new products to market by generating and exploring hundreds or thousands of higher-performing options based on functional and manufacturing requirements. The benefits of generative design, however, are not exclusive to additive manufacturing technology, and can be used along with traditional manufacturing technologies like 2-axis cutting and 2.5-, 3-, and 5-axis computer numerical control (CNC). Made in Space is “the space-based manufacturing company” specializing in using the unique properties of the space environment to develop solutions to commercial, industrial, research, and defense challenges. Made in Space famously produced an on-board additive manufacturing facility on the International Space Station. Join Autodesk and Made in Space for an overview of taking a generative design project from project conceptualization through to design exploration of different manufacturing and material options, to producing the final component.

“Virtual commissioning,” “industry 4.0,” and “digital twin” are today’s buzzwords in factory planning. Today, 3D planning is standard in many areas. But with Factory Design Utilities software and Industrial Physics software from machineering, new far-reaching simulation possibilities are emerging. The digital twin accompanies machines throughout their lifetimes—daily business, changes or modifications on the machine, service works—with a goal of preventing errors, optimizing machines, and avoiding failures. Use the simulation model as a basis for the digital twin in the early stages of the development process to safeguard your concepts.

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, you’ll get some good-to-know basics when using Model-Based Definition in Inventor software. The integrated tolerance advisor helps to ensure GD&T (geometric dimensioning and tolerancing) is correct and complete. Additionally, you’ll learn about the benefits of applying all information to the model and using it downstream. This class is intended for beginners and those who want to get started with Model-Based Definition in Inventor.

Vault 2022 software continues to deliver a more modern, connected, and insightful user experience. Vault 2022 is packed with features for the author, administrator, and participant company roles. For authors who use Inventor software and other CAD design tools, we’re helping you focus on the work you love. Vault 2022 unlocks more design data by delivering a better-integrated data experience and BOM variants management. This can keep you better connected to your design data while working inside CAD, so you can spend more time getting your work done.

Getting the CAD model right is only half of the story. Fully understanding the production capabilities – tied to the CAD model – tells a full story for the planning phases of Digital Twins.