Many owners/operators of process plants are required to use or implement specific design and engineering applications like AVEVA PDMS. Learn how workflows and third-party tools can help to overcome the challenges of data exchange between Autodesk, Inc., and non-Autodesk Plant Solutions in a multidisciplinary design environment. Learn how we can use AutoCAD Plant 3D software and Revit software to modify and enrich an existing plant design management system (PDMS) project, and how to hand over AutoCAD Plant 3D and Revit models in PDMS format, eliminating the need for remodeling. See how existing PDMS models may be brought into AutoCAD Plant 3D and Revit for work sharing. Also, see how we can convert PDMS catalogue/spec databases into AutoCAD Plant 3D to be used in projects, and how AutoCAD Plant 3D models are converted into intelligent PDMS models using the XMpLant format. Revit is often a preferred tool for architectural and structural design, and Revit models may also be converted into intelligent PDMS models. We will share sample projects and customer stories.

Sun Tzu posits, “Every battle is won or lost before it’s ever fought.” When it comes to product lifecycle management and product data management (PLM/PDM) adoption in your company, no truer words have ever been spoken. Setting the executive stage, preparing and scoping the project(s), and defining key adoption milestones and criteria are crucial components to transforming your organization into a global manufacturing juggernaut. Experts from Autodesk, Inc., will teach you how to approach the definition, scoping, estimating, and adoption of PLM/PDM processes in your organization. Take a behind-the-scenes tour of how Autodesk Global Services approaches helping you get there with Fusion Lifecycle software, Vault software, and our many authoring tools. Your competitors are all chasing “design anywhere, build everywhere.” We’re here to help you get there first! This session features PLM 360 (now Fusion Lifecycle), Fusion Lifecycle, and Vault Professional.

Bills of materials (BOMs) serve several purposes throughout a product lifecycle. While BOM data is usually created by CAD designers and managed in product data management (PDM) systems such as Vault software, it also needs to be shared with departments outside engineering where BOM information is used for production planning, assembling, or purchasing. Each of these steps requires a different view of the same BOM. Sometimes BOMs even need to be extended with information such as "work stages" or "work orders.” Sharing and enriching BOM information is usually done in systems other than Vault, such as Fusion 360 Manage or enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. This class will explore bills of materials and their different uses. We'll showcase different ways to share BOM data among product lifecycle management (PLM) systems, PDM systems, and ERP systems. And we’ll analyze the available APIs to help you implement BOM workflows among Vault Professional (PDM), Fusion 360 Manage (PLM), and ERP systems.

Design is rarely a perfectly linear and straightforward process. Often a single tool cannot accommodate all the workflows—and even when it does, it’s rarely the right fit. By maximizing the different tools within the Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Collection (Inventor software, Autodesk Fusion 360, Desktop Connector), designers and engineers can now design, make, and collaborate on products to reduce the lead time faced in today's manufacturing. This course will cover the complete workflow involved in designing parts for formative manufacturing—injection molding. From making a mold in Inventor to validating your part for injection molding in Autodesk Fusion 360, the Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Collection helps you connect these workflows right on your desktop using Autodesk Fusion 360 Desktop Connector.

Unlock your potential with this engaging, instructor-led masterclass tailored for industry professionals eager to implement and operate cloud-based product data management (PDM) in just one day. This two-hour interactive session will guide you through the essentials of Upchain Cloud PDM, emphasizing its near-immediate time-to-value capabilities. From project creation to essential functions such as check-in/out, cloning, bill of materials (BOM) management, and straightforward engineering change and release, you'll gain invaluable insights and hands-on skills to transform your workflows. Join us for this immersive experience where you'll have the opportunity to set up your complimentary out-of-the-box (OOTB) tenant and test-drive the benefits of Upchain Cloud PDM. Beyond the tutorial, you'll meet our Autodesk Solutions Engineer team, fostering valuable industry connections. Don't miss this unique opportunity to elevate your productivity, enhance collaboration, and drive innovation in your company.

For those who demand the very best treadmills and equipment available, Woodway has been the first choice for performance, durability, and comfort since 1975. This session is an overview of Woodway's ongoing journey, from having disconnected systems (CAD, Vault, spreadsheets, ERP, and more) to implementing a connected digital thread between systems in the pursuit of a "single source of the truth.” We will show how the use of CAD, PDM, PLM, and ERP can work together to populate the required information for that digital thread. We will also show that continued implementation of PDM and PLM features can transform a company for "the long run.”

Hear from the Fusion Product team the vision for data and business process management for companies who are building their products and services with Fusion Industry Cloud. This session will cover key highlights of what's possible today and where we are going in the future with PDM and PLM with the Manufacturing Data Model (MFGDM) at its center powering the workflows and providing connectivity to the extended ecosystem. Products covered, Fusion 360, Manage Extension, Fusion Manage, Prodsmart.

Vault product data management (PDM) software helps designers and engineers better organise design data, enhance documentation management, and streamline revision processes of their product data. Product data is not exclusively used by development teams, but should also be available outside the engineering department. On the other hand, the engineers require data from upstream processes such as sales orders and specifications. And that's where a product lifecycle management (PLM) system like Fusion Lifecycle software comes into the play. Fusion Lifecycle serves as a company-wide information source for activities before, during, and after development actions, supported by automated processes. In this class, we will have a look at how both worlds (PDM and PLM) can be tied together to streamline the workflows throughout the whole product development cycle.

There are so many enterprise-level technologies and business tools in use. Which one is the right one to use? Doesn't ERP do everything? And I'm sure I heard that new CRM tools can do more than everything as well. But what about PDM and PLM, where do they fit? Do they fit? Aren't they the complicated tools used only in engineering? This class aims to lift the confusion around enterprise technologies, where and how they fit together, and how they can be used collaborativley to provide the right tools for the job.

Product lifecycle management (PLM) systems such as Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage software or Upchain run in the cloud while Vault software and most enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are still installed on-premises. Hidden behind firewalls, on-premises software cannot directly receive update notifications from cloud applications, and have difficulty synchronizing with changes from cloud systems. Polling data from large data sets is time consuming and inefficient. Automated synchronization and digital transformation of data between hybrid PDM, PLM, and ERP systems require more-sophisticated solutions. This class will demonstrate how to efficiently send data from cloud to on-premise systems. We’ll use different examples to demonstrate how the Autodesk Forge Webhooks API and Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage Action Scripts are used to automatically update entities in Vault software, or how cloud PLM systems automatically send Bill of Materials (BOM) data to on-premise ERP systems without the need for the on-premise software to poll for data.

The bill of materials (BOM) is at the heart of any manufacturing company, but each department (design, purchasing, production) and each system (PDM, ERP, MES, PLM) has its own view, understanding, and expectation of what the BOM should look like. Data is usually transferred manually from one system to another, which is time consuming and error prone. This session will explain where the BOM is created, how it moves between teams, how and why it is transformed, and what tool should do what to support this transition. We'll use practical examples to show how a BOM starts in Inventor and Vault software and moves between the above systems, and how these systems can be integrated with each other.

When used together, Vault Professional software and Fusion Lifecycle software provide a combined solution that is the best of all worlds for product data management (PDM) and product lifecycle management (PLM). While Vault runs on-premise to keep your CAD data safe behind your firewall, Fusion Lifecycle is cloud based for flexibility and ease of deployment. Sadly, this has made a seamless integration between the two difficult—until now. This class describes the benefits of the Vault Fusion Lifecycle Connector, including installation, configuration, and extensibility, so you can create a best-of-all-worlds solution.

In this class you will hear firsthand from one of our customers, Parker Hannifin Corporation, regarding how the firm deployed Vault software from a small group of 30 users to what is now over 1500 active users. You will also learn how the firm is using Autodesk PLM 360 software to manage the other processes that support engineering, quality, costing, quoting, and supplier management, and you will see how this enables the firm to use cloud-based PLM collaboration to extend the product data management productivity and increase the time to market of products and services.

Do you have Vault Professional software rockin', rollin', and keeping your data managed and safe? But you are still managing network servers and FTP sites, and using email to distribute drawings and designs? Don’t you wish you could capitalize on your Vault to collaborate without having to duplicate information? Do you want to know what some of your competitors are doing to streamline their processes, information, and productivity? Or, do you have Fusion Lifecycle software tuned up and your processes dialed in? But you aren’t capitalizing on your design data to generate BOMs or linking them to drawings and documentation? Do you have neither and want complete nirvana in a silky smooth process, but don’t know how to get started? Attend this class, our team will show you how to get there.

Vault software products specifically support Inventor software’s iPart/iAssembly factory and member file management. This class will have practical examples that will illustrate and unveil the secrets from basic file management tasks up to advanced workflows like partial revision of families. Experienced Inventor software users and product data management administrators will learn recommended setup and configurations to capitalize on the full capabilities and benefits managing and consuming component families. The class will discuss file structures, setup of family tables, and the implementation of file and item numbering schemes for family members. Follow considerations and implementation scenarios to drive CAD and item bill of materials. Another important aspect is to manage component families over larger periods of time. Get introduced to revision management and all file management tasks like rename, move, and copy. We will also cover Inventor file migration for vaulted families. This session features Vault Professional, Inventor Professional, and Vault Workgroup. AIA Approved

This lecture will cover planned functionality for Autodesk, Inc.’s, data management software and service, including Vault software. This session features Vault Professional.

This session will cover and demonstrate planned functionality for Vault software. We will discuss the future strategy of the product and how you can help drive the product to fit your needs.

This lecture will cover planned functionality for Autodesk, Inc.'s, data management software and service, including Vault software.

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.

PLMConnect provides an easy-to-use connection between Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage and Upchain to unlock the full potential of your product lifecycle management (PLM) and product data management (PDM) software. Moreover, PLMConnect Enterprise provides a connectivity option to Vault and downstream to enterprise applications such as ERP. By combining the capabilities of both Fusion 360 Manage and Upchain, companies can improve collaboration, streamline workflows, and reduce costs by eliminating the need for disconnected systems and processes. Join vdR Group, a long-time Autodesk partner, as we explore the various use cases of PLMConnect and learn more about implementation, related engineering change best practices, and PLMConnect Enterprise extensions that support broader connectivity into Vault, as well as the enterprise, for consumers of released product data across ERP, MES, CPQ, MRO, and more.