{"id":5165,"date":"2017-01-12T11:12:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T19:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/?p=5165"},"modified":"2017-01-12T11:41:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T19:41:40","slug":"future-making-things-demand-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/future-making-things-demand-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Making Things: On Demand and in the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CTO Jeff Kowalski opened up Autodesk University 2016 by sharing that technology is increasing at an exponential rate. This sentiment was\u00a0apparent at the 2016\u00a0conference. As part of an inspiring keynote that touched on virtual reality, artificial intelligence, using design to enact positive change, and empowering the next generation of engineers, Kowalski reassured the group by saying, &#8220;ongoing learning is the antidote to fearing, an enabler of using, new technology.&#8221; Kowalski wanted to convey that technology is not the competition; the competition is someone else adopting it before we do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5167\" src=\"http:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SolidProfessorpost1.jpg\" alt=\"solidprofessorpost1\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SolidProfessorpost1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SolidProfessorpost1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With that mission in hand, we look forward at the future of making things, pioneered with Fusion 360. Autodesk understands that its customers are expecting products that are custom and interactive. That said,\u00a0the traditional product life cycle paints manufacturers into a corner with an inflexible business process. We are starting to\u00a0see a big shift to manufacturing that is agile, with products as a service and greater overall lifetime customer value. Some key features of Fusion 360 that support this trend include:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fusion 360 is a responsive software. It\u00a0aligns with the type of devices people want to use, like a tablet on a shop floor, Mac computer, and mobile device. At Autodesk University, the team announced it is making Fusion 360 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/fusion-forecast-autodesk-university\/\">web-accessible<\/a>. It will soon be available on any device, at any time, completing the transition to cloud software.<\/li>\n<li>Fusion 360 has also added an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/subscribe\">\u201cUltimate\u201d subscription offering<\/a>\u00a0which includes advanced Simulation and CAM\u00a0capabilities beyond the Standard subscription. It is also\u00a0remains for students, hobbyists, and startups to continue to ensure CAD is accessible.<\/li>\n<li>Collaboration is important to the future of design. As a result,\u00a0branching and merging is coming soon\u00a0for design options to iterate collaboratively.<\/li>\n<li>Fusion 360 will also be launching generative design capabilities. This will provide the ability to input constraints and let the software provide possible solutions. The current capability Fusion 360 offers is shape optimization. Soon they will add structural latticing for optimizing designs for additive manufacturing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For manufacturing companies, how <strong>fast <\/strong>you can make an impact is the definition of success. The move to the cloud will allow for rapid iteration, tight communication between a geographically diverse team, innovation, and greater accessibility to engineering software. With these changes however, come challenges associated with the move to the cloud. One being\u00a0the difficulty for engineers to stay current on rapidly evolving software capabilities. As a response the industry is evolving.\u00a0\u00a0Training is now more often seen as ongoing professional development versus a once yearly event.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the closing keynote, Autodesk CMO Andrew Anagnost commented, &#8220;Did you know that after 24 hours, you&#8217;ve already forgotten 70% of the new information you&#8217;ve gotten from a presentation?&#8221; We learned so much at Autodesk University, but the learning can&#8217;t stop now that we\u2019ve left Las Vegas. Continuous learning helps defeat that forgetting curve and keep your skills sharp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Glockler, CEO of SolidProfessor shares his key takeaways from Autodesk University and provides his perspective on how Fusion 360 is aligning with larger industry trends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1548,"featured_media":5170,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fusion","dhig-theme--light"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Future of Making Things: On Demand and in the Cloud - Fusion Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tony Glockler, CEO of SolidProfessor shares his key takeaways from Autodesk University and provides his perspective on how Fusion 360 is aligning with larger industry trends.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/future-making-things-demand-cloud\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Future of Making Things: On Demand and in the Cloud - 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