Navigating the imminent growth in the renewable energy market presents challenges around skills and project data quality. Autodesk tools enable customers to overcome these challenges by investing in upskilling and ensuring high-quality data for their projects. AutoCAD files are critical in this, providing the precision needed, especially with the shift toward 3D designs for energy yield modeling. Well-optimized and structured preconstruction stage designs in AutoCAD can make or break a potential project's funding and eventual construction, thus driving customer value. This panel will explore how Autodesk software can empower customers to unlock the renewable energy sector's potential, overcome bottlenecks, and mitigate risks. By addressing these challenges, users can contribute significantly to achieving the ambitious Net Zero emissions targets and combat climate change, driving positive outcomes for their businesses and the world.

French engineering firm Artelia faced a challenge in generating secondary supports assembly drawings from AutoCAD Plant 3D software. The default AutoCAD Plant 3D settings were time consuming, and the competitor's solution was costly. Autodesk Consulting developed a new AutoCAD Plant 3D plug-in, leading to a 75% time reduction across Artelia projects, potentially saving approximately 208 days in the first year alone. The plug-in offers a variety of features. It automatically generates orientations and position views in a drawing, which streamlines the design process. It includes auto-annotation of views, making documentation more efficient. The addition of a bill of materials (BOM) and a new graphical user interface further improves user friendliness and functionality. The solution currently works with secondary supports and is beneficial for all AutoCAD Plant 3D users who use orthographic drawings. It can potentially be scaled up to include support for all objects and drawings, and for drawings with auto-dimensioning capabilities.

GEA is constantly working with its Mission 26 to improve customer experience and increase efficiency and quality. Dive into a compelling case study where Factory Design Utilities software, part of the Inventor and iLogic capabilities, radically transformed factory design from the sales stage to engineering / project execution and beyond! This course will explore GEA's groundbreaking transition to Factory Design Utilities, which reduced engineering time by up to 80% and simplified complex plant layouts. Discover the transformative approach that synchronized 2D and 3D designs, significantly benefiting sales and engineering processes, and delivering profound accuracy improvements. Join us to explore this shift as we explore how using Factory Design Utilities can help companies win more business, reduce design iterations, allocate time to critical tasks, manage more projects more efficiently, and ultimately improve overall factory design productivity and profitability.

There is increased focus on how Digital will disrupt the E&C sector. Most executives now understand that soon, engineers will not design, they will develop the algorithms that automate the design of solutions. According to the 2023 Deltek Clarity survey, ¾ of E&C participants worry that they will lose market share within 2 years if they fail to transform. Also, CAPEX is increasing in most sectors, therefore successful transformation is not only seen as a necessary mean to remain profitable, but also to increase capacity and gain market share. However, it is common for E&C firms to struggle in transforming leveraging Technologies. Usual "ways of working" such as focus on utilization rate, risk aversion and silos can impede a successful transformation. There would be merit in conducting a panel discussion with leaders from different horizons to discuss the above, focusing on the why, potential solutions and how they made meaningful progress happen while addressing these challenges.

The new AutoCAD Plant 3D 2024 software has many new features. Some are obvious, others are a bit hidden, but still very important, improving your daily work. Do you want to get information about these new features? Come to this session!

This session will dive into an effective workflow using AutoCAD Plant 3D software tailored for the plant industry. From project preparation to integrated management through Autodesk Construction Cloud, we'll explore a series of processes, including managing specifications and libraries with Inventor software, and we'll culminate in the creation of final piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID) drawings. This approach ensures efficient project management and heightened quality, leading to successful project outcomes and streamlined data integration management.

Industrial piping projects routinely run into difficulties validating model design against P&ID schematics. Missing tags and incorrect descriptions wreak havoc on schedules as designers work to transition from drawing-focused design to data-centered design. Engineering managers and project managers need clarity in design quality. Learn how estimating design points as part of your AutoCAD Plant 3D modeling gives you and your project management team better insight into project progress, identifying critical paths, and helps your projects stay on time and on budget.

This is an open panel discussion about all AutoCAD Plant 3D topics. Ask us—we will answer.

Connecting Microsoft Power Bi to AutoCAD Plant 3D software enables your organization to apply business intelligence to your design models. Learn how to raise the visibility of the design process by giving project managers, engineers, and other teams access to your model data without interrupting the design process. Power BI can help answer questions like: What's the project progress in modeling? How many lines still need isometrics? Did all my equipment get modeled yet? Is my line list complete? These are common questions to ask, but they can require so much work to get an answer that the design process has to stop. With Power Bi, your reporting and project status information can be pulled in parallel with your design efforts. By being able to bring the status information to a weekly stand-up meeting, your team can focus on discussing solutions instead of discovering problems.

The development level of hydraulic modeling applications enables their use in various everyday situations in the water industry throughout the entire lifecycle of assets, not only in the design and specification stages. The development of information flows in each phase of asset life enables integration and interoperability between design applications (Civil 3D or InfraWorks software), geographic information systems (ArcGIS), and hydraulic modeling software (InfoWorks WS PRO software). This new dynamic enhances the use of these tools together, extracting the best result as quickly and accurately as possible, both in the design phase and also during operations and maintenance. In this session, we'll go through studies of network pathways, sizing, depth, clash detection, documentation, calibration, operational rules, and more, using the best application for each step with the smoothest interoperability.

This session will showcase a new workflow of creating a factory layout in Autodesk Factory Design Utilities software and using FlexSim to validate the throughput of the layout, identify potential bottlenecks, and balance resource use. We will also discuss the product roadmap for Factory Design Utilities and FlexSim, as well as the vision for Autodesk Fusion digital factory. Learn how Autodesk is paving the way to connected data and seamless workflows in the Autodesk Fusion industry cloud, as well as enabling factory designers and industrial engineers to validate factory layout designs.

Digital factories offer manufacturers critical benefits of efficiency, innovation, and stability — but they're only truly effective if they are designed, built, and operated thoughtfully. In this first session of the Digital Factory Symposium, you'll hear from top leaders about the opportunities they see for companies who are implementing a digital factory. *This session is part of the Digital Factory Symposium, a learning pathway and networking experience on Wednesday, October 16. To see all related sessions, select the "Digital Factory Symposium" filter. If you would like to attend the private welcome reception on Tuesday, October 15, please email DigitalFactoryAU@autodesk.com.

Unlocking a digital factory's potential demands innovation, collaboration, and data-driven decisions. In this second session of the Digital Factory Symposium, experts share insights on how connecting data and teams across disciplines can deliver better outcomes. *This session is part of the Digital Factory Symposium, a learning pathway and networking experience on Wednesday, October 16. To see all related sessions, select the "Digital Factory Symposium" filter. If you would like to attend the private welcome reception on Tuesday, October 15, please email DigitalFactoryAU@autodesk.com.

In this class, you will learn how to create and customize a sample AutoCAD P&ID software project. We will show you how to customize a title block to include company information, modify AutoCAD P&ID to use your own layering system, and create company blocks for your project. The class will cover how class structure affects symbol creation and how dynamic block tools work with AutoCAD P&ID. You will also learn how to work with project fields and find out where project settings are stored.

This session will detail how to efficiently create and manage projects in Revit software using one model with multiple projects. Factory design is often ongoing and requires change to accommodate new and upgraded products, increase safety, and provide work spaces for people in an ever-changing environment. While Revit has traditionally been used in a way that is one site, one project—this presentation will share how Revit can be used to accommodate many projects in one model. In regards to manufacturing and innovation, speed is key when it comes to new factory designs. Software should enable us to quickly build off what we've already created, and create permit packages that can get sent out to local authorities having jurisdiction. This type of building information modeling (BIM) management isn't only applicable to factories and manufacturing spaces; it can also be applied to any building that continues to require permit packages.

Your next big factory layout project requires you to collaborate with various stakeholders and you would like to use Autodesk Construction Cloud. This class will walk you through the process of producing a factory layout using Autodesk Factory Design Utilities software and interfacing with a collaborative project on the Autodesk Construction Cloud platform. Embracing this new technology may be the key to the productive outcome of your next project.

The process of managing factory design layout data and fostering collaboration between the design team and external reviewers using Vault software and Autodesk Construction Cloud to handle clashes in Navisworks software is an integrated procedure. The design team can use AutoCAD software or Inventor software to develop the factory design layout, which is then stored in Vault. Vault acts as a secure, centralized storehouse for design data, enabling the team to access the latest information, reducing potential mistakes and rework. It also tracks version history and documents updates, offering clear accountability. Once the design is finalized, it can be disseminated to external reviewers through Autodesk Construction Cloud. Autodesk Construction Cloud serves as a shared data environment, allowing teams to collaborate and exchange design data in real time. It also supports model coordination, document management, and design review, augmenting collaboration between the design team and external reviewers.

In this class, we will present a general overview of the tools and features of AutoCAD Structural Detailing software as they can be applied to process and power piping design. You will learn about the workflow in AutoCAD Structural Detailing and how to add and remove profiles from the working set of profiles. Finally, you will learn how to generate a structure model and detail drawings.

Every company should strive to make its customers more successful! A very important topic is that the customers have permanent access to good data available in the expert systems in ERP, Vault, Inventor and other systems over all life phases of the machines and plants. Companies can make their customer more successful, reducing internal and administrative work through the clever use of existing engineering data in the company with the help of service information systems! This potential transformed into proactive customer service leads to more orders and turnover! The demands of the fast-changing times are only realised with very good information management. Companies have good information in their expert systems ERP and PDM. However, access to this information is denied to many employees. The expert systems are complex, sometimes difficult to understand and operate, and often not linked.