How to choose factory layout software

Delivering new products, relocating manufacturing facilities, and global collaboration all require the right technology to bridge gaps, adapt to change with agility, and enable digital, automated ways of working.

Explore the capabilities you need to:

Optimize your factory design
Increase manufacturing throughput
Improve time to market
Reduce non-value-add processes
Reduce errors and rework

Download buyer's guide

Your factory transformation journey starts here

Download the guide and determine what capabilities you need your design tools to deliver in order to meet your business objectives.

Key qualities to look for in factory solutions

Integrated data across the factory lifecycle

Ideal solutions don't exist in silos. They enable collaboration by unifying everyone–from all disciplines and stages–around a single data source.

Digitalization of the factory

Mature factory layout workflows rely on highly visual digital representations of equipment, layouts, and buildings that aggregate always-up-to-date data.

Convergence of industries

Digital factory planning is only half the story. The other half is BIM. Whether a greenfield project or retrofit, your technology should enable you to design within the full context of the building.

Insights from inside the factory

“It is absolutely necessary for us to have highly efficient and flexible factories regarding all aspects: sustainability, productivity, and global infrastructure. This efficiency and flexibility is the basis of our resilience.”

– Maximilian Viessmann, CEO, Viessmann Group
Breaking Down the Barriers to More Collaborative Factory Projects, Harvard Business Review Analytic Services
"Digital platforms are key to enable seamless coordination between the different subject matter experts involved by offering access to the latest information."

– Rupert Hoecherl, Managing Director & Partner, io-consultants
Breaking Down the Barriers to More Collaborative Factory Projects, Harvard Business Review Analytic Services

Conceptualize, plan, and validate manufacturing facilities

Product details

Navisworks Manage, Navisworks Simulate software and the Navisworks Freedom 3D viewer for 5D analysis, design simulation, and project review.

Product details

Product data management software—available as Vault Basic, Vault Professional, Vault Office

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The buyer's guide to CAD for facilities layout

How to choose factory layout software

Your factory transformation journey starts here

Key qualities to look for in factory solutions

Integrated data across the factory lifecycle

Digitalization of the factory

Convergence of industries

Insights from inside the factory

“It is absolutely necessary for us to have highly efficient and flexible factories regarding all aspects: sustainability, productivity, and global infrastructure. This efficiency and flexibility is the basis of our resilience.”

"Digital platforms are key to enable seamless coordination between the different subject matter experts involved by offering access to the latest information."

How to choose the right design tools for an agile factory