Autodesk Fusion’s integrated cloud product data management (PDM) solution enhances collaboration, efficiency, and agility. It centralizes data, streamlines workflows, and provides powerful features such as CAD integration, AnyCAD data import, concurrent design, and automated change tracking, making it an essential tool for modern design and manufacturing teams.

A lack of effective data management can pose significant challenges, especially for design and manufacturing teams working under tight deadlines. That’s why we’ve embedded integrated product data management (PDM) into Autodesk Fusion. This ensures efficient collaboration across teams and increased product development agility.

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With Fusion, you get a PDM system integrated into your workflows from the start. Fusion’s unified design and manufacturing capabilities with integrated PDM set it apart from other tools in the market. Let’s take an in-depth look at the benefits it provides, its key business values, and features that make it easier than ever for design and manufacturing teams to manage their data.

Benefits of cloud PDM in Fusion

Enhancing collaboration with cloud PDM

We designed Fusion with data management and team collaboration at its core. By centralizing data and providing modern collaboration, review, and markup tools, Fusion makes it easier for cross-functional teams to collaborate anywhere, anytime, on any device. Here’s how:

• Team onboarding: Fusion PDM is integrated and ready from the start. No need for complex setups—add team members, organize groups, and assign roles and permissions instantly.
• Centralized data: Fusion PDM manages data in the background while teams stay focused on product development. Say goodbye to time wasted searching for files or losing work. With Fusion, data is always centralized, accessible, and secure.
• Cloud collaboration: Connect with teams and suppliers anywhere, anytime, on any device. Fusion’s cloud-based design and manufacturing solution enhances operational efficiency and agility by providing centralized data across your organization.
• Non-CAD stakeholder collaboration: Share direct links to designs with external stakeholders. They can view, measure, comment, and mark up designs in a web browser.

Boosting design and manufacturing agility with cloud PDM

In the fast-paced world of product development, agility is key. Fusion empowers teams with data and insights to adapt swiftly to change and stay ahead in a fast-paced market with the following capabilities:

• Automatic change and history tracking: Automated change-tracking provides full traceability of design evolution, helping teams identify the best ideas and work smarter.
• Bill of materials (BOM) management: Fusion’s cloud-based BOM reflects the latest design changes, aiding informed decisions on production, purchasing, or outsourcing.
• AnyCAD flexibility: When teams are working with stakeholders who use other CAD tools, Fusion’s AnyCAD technology allows them to collaborate with the native files without disruption.

Increasing efficiency across teams with cloud PDM

Fusion streamlines design and manufacturing workflows with integrated PDM for more efficiency across teams.

• Concurrent design: Team members can work on the same project or assembly simultaneously from one central location, ensuring safe and efficient access to data.
• Unified solutions: Combining CAD, CAM, CAE, PCB, and PDM in one cloud-based solution, Fusion eliminates the need for multiple software, streamlining workflows and collaboration.
• Design reuse: Quickly find and reuse existing designs with Fusion’s fast, flexible search, preventing costly duplications.

How cloud PDM in Fusion drives key business values

Increase collaboration

Increase cross-functional collaboration with centralized data that provides easier access for teams inside and outside your organization. Fusion’s modern communication, review, and markup tools facilitate efficient collaboration. Whether online or offline, access your data anytime, anywhere, on any device.

Increase product development agility

Adapt swiftly to market changes by effortlessly switching between design and manufacturing workspaces in a single cloud-based solution. Fusion’s automation and data accessibility help ease complexity as your business scales, resulting in faster response times and fewer errors.

Reduce defects and non-conformities

Centralized design and manufacturing data provide clear visibility and instant notifications to all departments when changes occur. Everyone stays informed and reduces the risk of defects and non-conformities.

Improve time to market

Concurrent team workflows can expedite decision-making processes. This allows you to meet market demands more efficiently and bring your products to market faster.

Key cloud PDM features and capabilities in Fusion

Autodesk Fusion offers a variety of powerful features and capabilities to enhance cloud PDM and streamline workflows. With CAD-integrated PDM, users can stay focused and productive as their data is managed seamlessly while they work. AnyCAD simplifies the process of working with imported CAD data. Fusion seamlessly opens native files from all mainstream design software. Users can start working immediately, with automatic updates alleviating the challenges associated with design changes and revisions.

Cloud data management and design reuse

Centralized cloud-based data management allows users to handle all file types and product-related information in one organized system. This includes documents, spreadsheets, images, PDFs, engineering data, and associated metadata. Data is accessible from anywhere, promoting flexibility and convenience. Fusion’s design reuse capability features fast and flexible search. Users can quickly find and reuse existing designs, preventing costly and time-consuming duplication and redundancy.

Concurrent design and shared views

Fusion also supports concurrent design. Team members can work simultaneously on the same project or assembly from one central location with safe, simultaneous access to data. Design collaboration and review are made easy through shared views, allowing for real-time data sharing and feedback collection. This includes the ability to measure, mark up, redline, and comment without needing CAD licenses.

Search and group management

Extended search capabilities help users find exactly what they’re looking for, while change control features reduce design cycle errors and workflow inefficiencies by tracking every change and preventing conflicts with automated, built-in change control. User and group management is straightforward, allowing teams to easily expand and manage users in all design projects with secure permission control. Hub onboarding simplifies the process of setting up new team members, ensuring they become productive quickly.

Bill of materials

Fusion also automates the creation of bills of materials (BOMs) from CAD data, adding relevant metadata for downstream decision-making. Version milestones help communicate and identify important design milestones throughout the product development process, ensuring that everyone is aligned and informed. These comprehensive features make Autodesk Fusion an exceptional integrated PDM solution, promoting efficiency, collaboration, and effective data management for design and manufacturing teams.

Autodesk Fusion: An integrated cloud PDM solution

Are you ready to ditch multiple disparate tools? Autodesk Fusion’s integrated cloud PDM solution offers unparalleled benefits in terms of collaboration, agility, and efficiency, making it an essential tool for modern design and manufacturing teams.