DIGITAL FACTORY
Maximize efficiency throughout your factory’s lifecycle
Maximize efficiency throughout your factory’s lifecycle
Realize more innovation, seamless stakeholder collaboration, and data-driven decision making across the entire factory value chain with Autodesk.
Digital factory: a connected vision for manufacturing
Digital factory: a connected vision for manufacturing
From AI to automation to data-driven insights, today’s manufacturing tools and processes are more powerful than ever. Shaped by digital transformation, organizations are embracing the digital factory to connect teams throughout every phase of the factory lifecycle. Instead of siloed workflows, you get efficient collaboration. Instead of data loss between departments, you unlock better, more powerful insights.
From AI to automation to data-driven insights, today’s manufacturing tools and processes are more powerful than ever. Shaped by digital transformation, organizations are embracing the digital factory to connect teams throughout every phase of the factory lifecycle. Instead of siloed workflows, you get efficient collaboration. Instead of data loss between departments, you unlock better, more powerful insights.
Unlock value throughout your factory’s lifecycle
Leveraging insights and data
Leveraging insights and data
Autodesk’s solutions provide the planning environment needed to help teams effectively capture every design, construction, and manufacturing decision from the beginning. So you can explore different scenarios and outcomes and make more effective decisions.
Autodesk’s solutions provide the planning environment needed to help teams effectively capture every design, construction, and manufacturing decision from the beginning. So you can explore different scenarios and outcomes and make more effective decisions.
Digital factory solutions to optimize factory design
Factory design
Drive increased efficiency, throughput, and quality during manufacturing process development with powerful 2D and 3D CAD workflows that help you keep plans on track while optimizing your factory design.
Explore factory designDrive increased efficiency, throughput, and quality during manufacturing process development with powerful 2D and 3D CAD workflows that help you keep plans on track while optimizing your factory design.
Machine design
Improve product development agility, increase innovation capacity, and expand product offerings with purpose-built tools and workflows that help you get your best ideas to market more efficiently.
Explore machine designImprove product development agility, increase innovation capacity, and expand product offerings with purpose-built tools and workflows that help you get your best ideas to market more efficiently.
BIM collaboration for manufacturers
Improve collaboration, reduce costly errors, and get your products specified in more projects through the same connected BIM ecosystem used by building and infrastructure customers.
Explore BIMImprove collaboration, reduce costly errors, and get your products specified in more projects through the same connected BIM ecosystem used by building and infrastructure customers.
Digital factory solutions to increase throughput
Factory simulation
Visualize your production processes and identify bottlenecks by modeling and simulating a variety of scenarios—and use the results to refine and optimize your factory design for increased manufacturing throughput.
Explore simulationVisualize your production processes and identify bottlenecks by modeling and simulating a variety of scenarios—and use the results to refine and optimize your factory design for increased manufacturing throughput.
Manufacturing production management
Unlock resource planning efficiency, improve manufacturing flexibility, and increase throughput with advanced digital planning tools designed for all levels of manufacturing and production.
Explore production managementUnlock resource planning efficiency, improve manufacturing flexibility, and increase throughput with advanced digital planning tools designed for all levels of manufacturing and production.
Digital twin
Make better informed decisions, improve your customer service, and reduce downtime with continuous, real-time data and virtual representations of real-world assets to help predict and optimize performance.
Explore digital twinMake better informed decisions, improve your customer service, and reduce downtime with continuous, real-time data and virtual representations of real-world assets to help predict and optimize performance.
Digital factory solutions to improve time to market
Product lifecycle management (PLM)
Improve collaboration, increase development agility, accelerate time to market, and deliver supply chain transparency—a single source of data, with multi-CAD integration, keeps everyone on the same page.
Explore PLMImprove collaboration, increase development agility, accelerate time to market, and deliver supply chain transparency—a single source of data, with multi-CAD integration, keeps everyone on the same page.
Equipment installation
Reduce defects and nonconformities, improve the handover experience, and increase machine efficiency with a robust installation process when commissioning new machines for your factory.
Explore equipment installationReduce defects and nonconformities, improve the handover experience, and increase machine efficiency with a robust installation process when commissioning new machines for your factory.
Common data environment (CDE)
Enhance efficiency, improve quality, and lower risk with one single source of truth that puts data at the center of the entire project team—from architects and contractors to engineers and facilities managers.
Read articleEnhance efficiency, improve quality, and lower risk with one single source of truth that puts data at the center of the entire project team—from architects and contractors to engineers and facilities managers.
Digital factory resources
Adopting a modern, start-to-finish factory process
Adopting a modern, start-to-finish factory process
Traditional approaches to factory planning, designing, building, and operating lead to lost data. Learn why companies are going digital to deliver more agility across the factory lifecycle.
Traditional approaches to factory planning, designing, building, and operating lead to lost data. Learn why companies are going digital to deliver more agility across the factory lifecycle.
Why digital factories are the future of manufacturing
Why digital factories are the future of manufacturing
Explore how digital factories enable cross-functional coordination, create greater agility to adapt to the changing world, and give companies a competitive edge.
Explore how digital factories enable cross-functional coordination, create greater agility to adapt to the changing world, and give companies a competitive edge.
Digitally transforming the factory lifecycle
Digitally transforming the factory lifecycle
The pace of change in manufacturing demands new approaches. Read how industry leaders are embracing agility and innovation to overcome challenges and meet their targets.
The pace of change in manufacturing demands new approaches. Read how industry leaders are embracing agility and innovation to overcome challenges and meet their targets.
Realize a more digital future with Autodesk
Propel creativity and innovation
Propel creativity and innovation
Hear Autodesk leaders predict how a thriving future will be powered by cloud-based platforms, AI, and highly connected workflows.
Hear Autodesk leaders predict how a thriving future will be powered by cloud-based platforms, AI, and highly connected workflows.
Augment. Automate. Analyze.
Augment. Automate. Analyze.
Enter a new era of connectivity
Enter a new era of connectivity
See how Autodesk Fusion, the industry cloud for manufacturing, accelerates digital transformation, centralizing project data for enhanced collaboration, efficiency, and innovation.
See how Autodesk Fusion, the industry cloud for manufacturing, accelerates digital transformation, centralizing project data for enhanced collaboration, efficiency, and innovation.
Get more from your factory with Autodesk
Talk to Sales today to learn how integrated digital factory technologies from Autodesk provide you with the critical information needed to better design, build, and operate your facilities.
Talk to Sales today to learn how integrated digital factory technologies from Autodesk provide you with the critical information needed to better design, build, and operate your facilities.
Get more from your factory with Autodesk
Talk to Sales today to learn how integrated digital factory technologies from Autodesk provide you with the critical information needed to better design, build, and operate your facilities.
Talk to Sales today to learn how integrated digital factory technologies from Autodesk provide you with the critical information needed to better design, build, and operate your facilities.
Frequently asked questions about digital factories (FAQs)
A digital factory is a shared digital model that gives you insights into how to design, build, and operate your facility, reconfigure it for product and process changes, and maximize overall efficiency and productivity.
A digital factory provides each stakeholder involved with the critical information they need to better design, build, and operate their facilities.
Make record project timelines: Face changing markets without slowing down. Get your factory running quickly, reconfigure it even faster, and repeat.
Raise the bar for collaboration: Unlock new levels of efficiency, adaptability, and innovation with workflows connected across disciplines.
Eliminate costly errors: See building systems together with industrial equipment before installation begins to catch problems before they create waste and rework.
Integrated digital factory technologies—like layout and design toolsets, simulation, data and process management, and digital twins provide organizations with the critical information they need to better design, build, and operate their facilities. Autodesk provides a comprehensive, robust, and integrated foundation of digital factory software including:
Product Design & Manufacturing Collection A powerful set of applications with extended capabilities for Inventor and AutoCAD, built for engineers who design complex products, equipment, and systems, which includes:
Factory Design Utilities Integrated tools to plan, design, and build an efficient factory layout
AutoCAD Specialized 2D software for rapid conceptualization and design that includes optimization for transportation and power consumption on your factory floor
Inventor Open your 2D layout associatively in a 3D space for improved collaboration. Continue your design process in 3D and quickly generate your bill of equipment
Navisworks Aggregate the building, factory layout, and facility infrastructure into a single data model for clash detection and installation planning
VaultProduct data management software to manage design files
Recap Reality capture and 3D scanning software and services
Fusion OperationsProduction management and production floor tracking software
FlexSim Simulation software to model and improve existing and proposed systems
BIM Collaborate Pro Organize project data and collaborate with teams all in one place
Revit Complete 3D modeling software for architects, engineers, and construction professionals to design buildings and infrastructure
Autodesk Construction Cloud Deliver your projects on time and on budget in a secure and collaborative environment