Explore groundbreaking ways to interact with your CAD data using AI. In this session, coolOrange CEO Marco Mirandola will dive into how integrating Azure AI search capabilities and Azure OpenAI language models with Vault software can transform data management. Discover how natural language queries can simplify searches for specific components, and see how Azure Cognitive Services can analyze and classify CAD data, offering insights into data structure and design trends. This session will feature live prototypes, encouraging attendees to envision new AI-enhanced workflows.

Discover how Automatic Systems, Inc.—a frontrunner in the automotive and industrial machinery sectors—has transformed its operations with the power of data and process management strategies using product lifecycle management (PLM). This presentation will take you through the company's transformative journey, highlighting how it's moved from time-consuming manual tasks and disconnected business systems to an integrated ecosystem with connected data management, PLM, and enterprise resource planning (ERP). Learn how the company has achieved greater efficiencies by ensuring up-to-date data and visibility across departments. Through the company's experiences, you'll gain key insights and considerations for your own digital transformation journey. Learn how your business can emulate Automatic Systems' success, using connected data and processes to drive innovation and efficiency. This session is part of the PLM Summit, a dedicated learning pathway and networking experience on Tuesday, October 15. To see all related sessions select the "PLM Summit" track filter. To request attendance at the private luncheon and reception, please email plmsummitau@autodesk.com.

IPCO's Common Data environment - Key lessons learned moving into one common Vault enabling global product development and production, encompassing PDM/PLM and ERP integration. The journey from local Vault setups, individual working methods and applications to one common Vault enabling global product development, and collaboration, global production, and seamless product information sharing. With the Common Data environment project, IPCO created the platform for implementing PLM in areas such as Change Management and Quality Management as well as global integration to ERP. IPCO will share their experiences how to drive this type of project, potential pit falls and lessons learned.

In this session, we'll discuss the journey of implementing Autodesk Fusion Manage software. We'll cover all the challenges we faced implementing product lifecycle management (PLM) for a global group at the same time the enterprise resource planning (ERP) was implemented. Discover what strategies we tried and used—which was a success, and which was a failure. We'll also touch upon cultural differences and lessons learned when it comes to having more than 150 users adopt the system at once. We'll also showcase all the value Fusion Manage has provided to Vow ASA over a four-year period.

This session will spotlight four distinguished customers from various industries who've used connected data and process management strategies to transform their businesses and achieve key objectives. Through this panel, you'll gain firsthand insights into how these organizations are using product lifecycle management (PLM) to achieve different goals, such as increasing efficiency, accelerating time to market, enhancing quality, and reducing costs. During this insightful panel discussion, you'll get an inside look at key challenges they faced, strategies they employed, and successes they're achieving through the innovative use of data and process management solutions. This session is an excellent opportunity to take away new perspectives and knowledge that you can apply to your own organization and business transformation goals. This session is part of the PLM Summit, a dedicated learning pathway and networking experience on Tuesday, October 15. To see all related sessions select the "PLM Summit" track filter. To request attendance at the private luncheon and reception, please email plmsummitau@autodesk.com.

Head of Innovation Dan Middleton reveals Edwards Vacuum's (Atlas Copco Group) strategic approach to Net Zero manufacturing using digital-twin technology. Edwards' unique approach involves an extensive digital asset library and FlexSim-optimized processes, promoting lean and agile manufacturing and rapid enhancements in production, and boosting business performance. Using a novel digital-twin approach that effectively integrates its business processes enables Edwards to evaluate the impact its operations have on market trends and business cycles, and to support investment decisions in equipment, facilities, and workforce.

This hands-on lab will introduce engineers and designers to the world of using CAM to program computer numerical control (CNC) machines and its connection to the design process. Through a series of guided exercises in Autodesk Fusion CAM, you'll gain practical experience in setting up stock material and coordinate systems, choosing tools, defining machining operations (including machining boundaries), simulating the toolpaths, and generating G-code for a CNC milling machine. This session will equip you to better communicate with CAM programmers and optimize your designs for manufacturability.

Join this session as Dan shares the development road map and product strategy for Inventor Professional software. The presentation will cover recent and planned functionality that will add value to your everyday workflow needs. We encourage you to engage with Dan and members of the Inventor Engineering team with questions and feedback during and after the session.

Are you manually compiling your Bill of Materials (BOM) or parts list? STOP! There is a better way! If you are modeling your design in Autodesk Inventor, you have everything you need to automate BOM creation, and this class will show you how. In this class, we will learn how to use the BOM manager to… Make sure that all the data is complete. Sort, order, or show the assembly structure in the BOM manager and parts list. Apply item numbering. Export the BOM/parts list for use in other systems. Join us to learn how you can reduce the time you spend on BOM creation so you can focus on designing and engineering! If you are modeling 3D designs in Autodesk Inventor and aren't taking advantage of Automated BOM creation, this class is for you! Attendees are expected to have basic proficiency in Inventor, including navigating the UI, setting up the current project, opening files, and creating part and assembly models

How efficiently are your products getting from production to warehouse to shipping docks? As you consider new factory designs to improve these material-handling processes, it's critical to have a complete understanding of how your resources and processes interconnect. When Cardinal Glass wanted to optimize its material handling to minimize shipping delays from the factory, the company used simulation with FlexSim to validate its proof of concept and discover new improvement opportunities. The simulation helped to rebalance the workload and identify a reconfiguration that led to a 29% decrease in shipping operation time. This also formed the basis for a digital twin that enables real-time optimization of warehouse goods storage and dock assignments, with daily assignment, location, and maintenance recommendations.

Mazak, a global leader in industrial machinery and factory automation, invites you to explore "The Mazak Difference." This talk will showcase their unwavering commitment to continuous improvement and their comprehensive machine portfolio designed for every industry. Learn how their multi-tasking capabilities enhance efficiency and how Mazak's digital solutions, in collaboration with Autodesk Fusion, maximize uptime and optimize workflows from CAM to machining. With a focus on innovation, Mazak is more than just a machine tool provider—they are a true partner, dedicated to driving success through cutting-edge technology and unparalleled support.

This session will highlight key innovations from the smallest efficiencies to large workflows that are being delivered and our strategies for the future. Join us to learn about all of the new tools inside Inventor that will delight you daily and unlock new design methodologies that help you innovate. The Inventor Product Management team along with our development organization will be there to wow you with product, take your feedback and answer your questions.

This session will cover facility maintenance as a step toward a virtual factory. We'll address effective visualization workflows for equipment modeling using Inventor software. Then we'll create an immersive virtual environment that will be implemented with a head-mounted virtual reality (VR) device and hand controllers. You will learn how to operate the equipment within a virtual environment to perform a task while remaining off-site. This method is useful for facility managers/owners, especially when physical presence in the field is impossible for reasons such as natural disasters, pandemics, regional shut downs, and time limitations. 

As a mechanical engineering student in Finland and a CNC machine operator in the metal industry, Muluken Admassu has a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities in design, product development, and manufacturing. With his work and studies, he puts sustainability at the forefront. In this session, Admassu will share his journey from Africa to Finland and beginning his engineering work before ever seeing technology advancements. Admassu will also discuss the incorporation of sustainability considerations in his projects and unlocking new technology to go beyond the unexpected.

Generative design is often seen as an alien parts generator. In this session, we will share how we incorporated this design exploration method into our traditional design process, and how we applied the method on a very typical welded parts assembly of an automatic tools changer on a CNC machine tool. With no specific expectations, as we believed it was already fully optimized, we achieved almost 20% of mass reduction, positively impacting the overall machine precision. And as a side benefit—we got really good-looking parts. You'll learn which selection method we used to identify potential parts for generative design and how we defined the success criteria. We'll cover the whole process, from multiple designs exploration up to production and installation itself. We'll also discuss our generative design rollout plan.

Automated Modeling is a new tool in the Design Workspace that automates the process of exploring and creating new design concepts based on simple definitions of what to connect and what to avoid. Imagine simplifying your work-holding methods so that, within minutes, you're presented with several design alternatives of various shapes, styles, and complexity to use moving forward. Automated Modeling in Autodesk Fusion 360 is going to change the way you approach and explore new ideas for clever work-holding of complex parts for computer numerical control (CNC) machining.

This is your chance to have a direct dialog with a panel of Vault product managers and engineering managers. This session will focus on the strategy and vision that drives Vault Professional software. The hosted panel will give you some insight into the "why” and "what” of the functionality that makes it into Vault. You'll hear responses from the panel, as well as get the chance to ask Vault product managers direct questions.

Using Autodesk Fusion 360 software, we embraced a digital thread from design to production (or, as they say in sales, "from curiosity to cash"). Our new processes revolve around Fusion 360 and deliver improvements in process reliability and predictability. Just as importantly, this change let us create a new cloud-based digital customer experience. In this session, we'll look at how we applied Fusion 360 to create our new computer numerical control (CNC) manufacturing processes, and examine how we created the necessary Fusion 360 add-ins. Then we'll show how we took the further step of integrating Fusion 360, and our Fusion 360 add-in (created with the Fusion 360 API), with our cloud-based internal and customer-facing IT system. For our customers, the result is a new cloud-based customer experience that enables orders, reorders, and customization more easily than ever before. See how we went from standardizing on Fusion 360 to making it the core of our digital business transformation.

This session will cover how Simulation and Generative Models allow you to create multiple shape variations in Simplify and Edit Model workspaces. In Design Workspace, Configurations allow users to quickly create multiple variations of a design based on feature parameters, physical material, and suppression, to name a few. Configurations created in the Design Workspace can be seamlessly consumed in Simulation and Generative Design. Using this, one can create multiple simulation studies quickly for analysis and compare them in the results workspace. In Generative Design this is useful to quickly create multiple studies involving different setup parameters resulting in a richer design space to explore outcomes.

As our world becomes increasingly digital, interoperability is becoming more and more important. In many industries, including health care, manufacturing, and construction, interoperability is seen as a key factor in improving efficiency, reducing costs, and increasing innovation. It is also important for the development of new technologies and innovations and for enabling different systems to work together. Interoperability can help foster collaboration and accelerate the pace of technological progress. That said, two powerful products—AutoCAD toolsets and Inventor software—make one powerful pair that will maximize the capabilities of your CAD software with 2D and 3D workflows that work together. This class will show you how to use AutoCAD toolsets with Inventor to design faster, get more from your models, and save time on manual tasks that enable us to work together seamlessly.