Description
It is common to design factory layouts using AutoCAD software and Inventor software to ensure spatial accuracy and safety compliance. However, it is not the norm to be as diligent with process design. Often plant designers will rely on equipment vendor rates and will assume equipment and resources will integrate and run according to the design on paper. But what happens when the reality of process variation and equipment and labor interdependencies come into play? It’s very difficult to take all these factors into account using only CAD drawings and layouts. The solution is to use simulation to optimize the factory workflow, then create a direct link from the simulation to the factory layout, providing a digital twin of the factory. We will demonstrate the value and basics of how using ProModel and Process Simulator Autodesk Editions, synced with AutoCAD and Inventor, can help optimize your digital twin first so that you’re not playing trial and error with your real equipment, inventory, and labor.
Key Learnings
- Discover the value of using ProModel simulation for process optimization.
- Learn how to create a simulation model with Factory Design Utilities that opens directly in AutoCAD or Inventor to start a factory layout.
- Discover how to create a simulation model from an existing layout.
- Discover when to use manufacturing simulation.
Speakers
Aaron NelsonAaron Nelson joined ProModel (now BigBear.AI) in 2007, and is the Senior Product Manager of BigBear.AI's Simulation Tools, the ProModel / MedModel Professional, Process Simulator, and ProModel AutoCAD Edition since 2018. As part of this role, he and his team work closely with Autodesk’s AutoCAD, Inventor, and Factory Design Utilities technology teams developing the integrations between the ProModel and Autodesk toolsets. Prior to joining ProModel, Aaron graduated with a BS in Management from the University of Phoenix in 2007.
Keith VadasKeith was appointed President and CEO in January 2006. Prior to that he held positions of Executive VP, Director of Vertical Business Units and VP of Sales and Marketing. He oversees the development and sales of solutions for all vertical markets. Keith is an expert in developing and marketing predictive analysis based solutions and has been driving the delivery of innovative solutions for over 30 years to more than 1000 companies. He became part of the team in 1999 when ProModel acquired Sim-Tech, a simulation and scheduling solutions provider company Keith founded 1989. Prior to starting Sim-Tech he worked as an Application Sales Engineer for 5 years marketing computer-based code dating, bar coding and data collection equipment. Keith received a B.S. in Applied Science and Technology from Rochester Institute of Technology.
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