• Just-in-time (JIT) Manufacturing Benefits [Update 2025]

    Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing enhances efficiency, reduces waste, lowers inventory costs, improves quality control, and boosts customer satisfaction by aligning production with lean principles. Just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing offers a powerful approach to streamline operations, reduce waste, and align production directly with customer demand.…

    Production

  • Model-Based Definition (MBD) and The Role it Plays in Modern Manufacturing [Update 2025]

    Explore the benefits of model-based definition (MBD), its benefits across manufacturing, and how Autodesk solutions can help. For more than a century, 2D engineering drawings were the universal language of manufacturing. They captured dimensions, materials, and tolerances, serving as the primary reference…

    Design & Engineering

  • Solve Design Inefficiencies by Shifting from 2D to 3D CAD

    Struggling with outdated 2D workflows? Discover how transitioning to 3D design empowers manufacturers to reduce errors, speed up production, and stay competitive with Autodesk’s seamless 2D-to-3D integration. Manufacturing companies face increasing pressure to improve product quality, reduce time-to-market, and streamline production processes.…

    Design & Engineering

  • Unifying Factory Solutions for Smarter Production

    Explore how Autodesk’s integrated factory production solutions help manufacturers optimize factory layouts, streamline production processes, and improve operational efficiency for smarter, faster factory production. Autodesk is entering a new era of unified production—one where smart collaboration and digital factory solutions converge to transform how products are designed, engineered, and manufactured across industries.…

    Production

  • Demand-Driven Success: Lean Production Meets Just-In-Time (JIT)

    Lean production and just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing work together to eliminate waste, reduce inventory, and create agile, demand-driven production systems that maximize efficiency, quality, and customer value. Understanding lean production just-in-time (JIT) Manufacturing companies around the world have discovered that lean production and…

    Production

  • Comprehensive Guide to Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II)

    Manufacturing resource planning (MRP II) helps companies optimize their manufacturing processes, covering everything from materials to labor costs. This guide explains MRP II, its benefits, how it differs from MRP I and how Autodesk Fusion Operations can enhance MRP II. Understanding manufacturing…

    Production

  • The Digital Factory: Analytics and Cloud Platforms for Smarter Manufacturing Decisions

    Examine how advanced analytics and cloud platforms turn manufacturing into digital factories with actionable insights for agility and flexibility. Learn how Autodesk Factory Design Utilities unifies design, simulation, and collaboration to optimize operations and stay resilient in a competitive and unpredictable market.…

    Production

  • Simulation-Driven Lean Manufacturing

    Learn how discrete event simulation improves lean manufacturing by modeling real operations and testing new ideas before changes occur on the shop floor. Manufacturers operate under constant pressure to extract greater throughput from the same assets and uphold demanding delivery schedules. Lean…

    Uncategorized

  • Desktop Connector for Fusion – What’s New

    We are excited to announce a major release of Autodesk Desktop Connector for Fusion.  If you are new to this technology, then you came to the right place. We will explain what it is used for and cover all of the enhancements.…

    Industry Cloud for Manufacturing

  • Desktop Connector for Fusion – Best practices guide

    How is data stored in Fusion? Autodesk Fusion combines CAD, CAM, CAE, and PCB into a single, integrated cloud software platform. Fusion combines fast and easy organic modeling with precise solid modeling, so you can go from design to manufacturing, seamlessly. At…

    Design & Engineering

  • The Ultimate Guide to Material Requirements Planning (MRP) for Efficient Supply Chain Management

    This comprehensive guide explores the fundamentals of material requirements planning (MRP), its evolution, key components, benefits, implementation, and future trends. Material requirements planning (MRP) is a vital system for manufacturers aiming to optimize production and inventory management. It calculates the materials needed,…

    Uncategorized

  • Unlocking Industrialized Construction with Informed Design in Autodesk Inventor

    Autodesk Informed Design for Inventor allows product managers and engineers to create configurable, manufacturable building product models that seamlessly integrate with architectural workflows, streamlining industrialized construction from design through fabrication. Industrialized construction is transforming the building industry by applying manufacturing principles to…

    Autodesk Inventor