This class will focus on two advantages that construction companies can gain when collaborating in the cloud: collaboration and scalability. We will discuss how to rapidly and effectively share, aggregate, and communicate Building Information Modeling (BIM)-based information in a controlled manner, across a diverse, often geographically dispersed and changing project constituency. We will then show how shifting these workflows to the cloud enables scalability and explain how to provide both the technology and the people to meet the changing demands of a portfolio of projects while seamlessly bringing new companies into a project supply chain.

During this roundtable discussion, we will discuss industry challenges, how Fusion Lifecycle software can help manage them, and how to overcome roadblocks when implementing processes in Fusion Lifecycle.

30 tips and tricks in 60 minutes will save a lot of time in the future when using Fusion 360 software and the Generative Design in Fusion 360. This class can help beginners in 3D modeling understand the benefits gained from Generative Design in Fusion 360. Basic-level users will up their own levels in preparing 3D models for Generative Design in Fusion 360. High-level users in 3D modeling and simulation will know some tricks from manufacturing. After this demo, designers and engineers will be able to do projects for and with Generative Design in Fusion 360 faster and more effectively.

De Nora Group is a global company with two main business units: 1) electrodes—the firm is the largest provider of electrodes and coatings for electrochemical processes, and 2) water—the firm is one of the leaders in water and wastewater treatment technologies and processes for municipal and industrial applications. De Nora decided to invest in Autodesk product lifecycle management (PLM) software in order to optimize its product development processes. The firm embraced the PLM journey with Autodesk, replacing unsatisfying legacy solutions. Then the questions came: How do we successfully manage this initiative? What is the road map to deploy the PLM solution worldwide? What are the customer challenges, organizational changes, and overall benefits? And what is the best scalable architecture to satisfy a global deployment involving five plants in the United States, three in Italy, and more in the Asia-Pacific region? Join us to discover the answers to these and many more questions.

This session is intended to educate the audience on what Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage product lifecycle management (PLM) software is and how it can help small businesses improve processes. Small organizations are often afraid of implementing a PLM system due the fear of implementation costs. They make the assumption that Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage is only for large businesses. This session will talk about the out-of-the-box functionalities of Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage, and how they can help small companies use PLM without spending $$$. To be more specific, we’ll look at some of the industry challenges that small businesses face today and how Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage can help them with Bill of Materials (BOM) management, change management, and project management.

Are you struggling to maximize all the benefits of going digital? Like many industries, the process industry struggles in the adoption of the efficiencies of digital. Whether designing a plant from scratch, modifying an existing installation, or upgrading old equipment—vendor and EPC collaboration for a single equipment tag can still take hours, stacks of printed paper drawings are still supplied in submittal, and CAD assets can be disconnected or are sometimes unavailable. Learn how Emerson has maximized Autodesk Forge software to help accelerate industry digital transformation by improving the digital customer experience. Autodesk Forge is the platform that connects enterprise resource planning (ERP), product lifecycle management (PLM), and business logic—providing a complete CAD configuration experience on MyEmerson and Emerson.com. Learn also how this digital platform backbone enables a future of asset management, design automation, common data environments, IoT visualization, and digital twins.

As companies have adopted Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage software to handle their company's engineering data, how many other systems are you using to handle everything else? Is it just via email? If so, how’s the tracking? Are you paying for other systems additionally? At Owens Corning, we’ve taken the product lifecycle management (PLM) system and tailored it to meet the other areas of use in the office. This session will display the thoughts and concepts used to develop a robust system to be used for all aspects of a company, relating them to the projects that we work on.

For the equipment manufacturer of OLED production, the following are included in the key scope of the project: product portfolio management, CAD data management, change management (engineering change request, engineering change order), BOM management, and new product introduction for the equipment of OLED.

It is estimated that 80% of the environmental impact is determined at the design phase. However, many designers lack the tools to assess the impact of their design choices. In addition, an increasing number of companies are setting up ambitious sustainability goals, but the data required to drive the actions are often in disparate systems throughout the organization, or kept in PLM (product lifecycle management) and PDM (product data management) systems, which means that designs are already locked up. Autodesk and Makersite collaborated to bring sustainability insights into early product-design phases by connecting relevant lifecycle assessment data to the Autodesk Fusion 360 Design workspace. We’ve created a more holistic workflow to provide even more insights into sustainable design, directly within the design environment. The analysis can also recommend material alternatives and provide costing information to help designers make more-sustainable decisions, faster, with greater impact.

We hear and see the word "data" all the time. But what does it really mean? Does it even mean anything? Who needs data? Why do you need to collect data? Why is data important, really—it's not BIM . . . is it? Here are 4 questions that facilities managers should ask themselves: How often do you get handed the actual FM data needed for your PM program? How many hours did it take your team to populate the FM data from your last building project? Where is the data you received from your last BIM project? Where are your current operations and maintenance manuals kept and maintained? Now, think how you would deliver this data. Are you delivering this data? Do you want to deliver this data? We will explore all these options in this lecture. We will also discuss whether you need BIM to have data.

Working with large sites and long roadways can be a challenging design task. Setting up sheets, checking the scales, and consistently creating viewports with content that flows through the design are all part of the project. With the plan production tools in Civil 3D software, you can automate the process of creating these types of sheets quickly. We will explore how to use these tools to create multiple plan sheets, plan and profile sheets, and sections on multiple layouts, which ties it all together in a sheet set ready for publishing your deliverable. Let’s get productive and learn how to optimize the production of final plans and profile drawings.

In this session, we’ll explore how using best practices, standardized designs, and BIM (Building Information Modeling) technologies can move modular design and manufacturing to the point where automation makes sense. We’ll also cover how we’ve been able to overcome the disconnect between traditional architecture and manufacturing. Learn how we’ve used Revit software, StrucSoft Solutions, Navisworks software, and virtual reality (VR) to increase our ability to move beyond physical prototyping for design lock, and how it greatly improves the manufacturing outcome.

This session will demonstrate how to extend Fusion 360 Manage using ForgeFlow. ForgeFlow is a suite of pre-built, configurable Autodesk Forge integrations available by subscription. ForgeFlow includes powerful administration tools for Fusion 360 Manage that extends and increases the value of product lifecycle management (PLM) for your business.