Keeping your production floor productive is more important than ever before. After all, a computer numerical control (CNC) machine or worker sitting idle costs your business money. Prodsmart already helps manufacturers and fabricators to schedule, track, and trace their production and quality processes in real time. But what if you want to go further? In this live demonstration, you'll learn how you can maximize Autodesk Fusion 360 software, Fusion Team, and Prodsmart to further improve your production efficiency.

Quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) are cornerstones of any solid manufacturing process. Whereas QA looks to the future to ensure product requirements and goals will be met, QC focuses on the past and present of the process to ensure the goals have been achieved. Autodesk Fusion 360 software and Prodsmart provide data integrity to the quality management process through inspection methods, QC reports, and feedback reporting in a connected environment to enhance collaboration and audit tracking.

Autodesk acquired an amazing shop-floor solution called Prodsmart in 2022 to serve the Autodesk Fusion 360 user base. The solution is designed to take areas of a manufacturing business—like production tracking, scheduling, and inventory management—digital to streamline operations. Some customers think a solution like this only fits companies that have the opposite environment: low mix, high volume. This class will give tangible tips and tricks on how small businesses with high mix, low volume can completely change the way they work, moving from spreadsheets and paper travelers to completely digital environments, accelerating the small manufacturing businesses' digital transformation.

Prodsmart helps manufacturers and fabricators schedule, track, and trace their production and quality processes in real time. Our manufacturing execution system (MES) software provides real-time understanding and visibility into the whole manufacturing operation, while enabling our customers to achieve paperless production and automation. This product demo will cover the aspects of data tracking on the shop floor—and how that can create a feedback loop with the top-floor managers.

Take a walk through the Autodesk Fusion 360 connected data platform, from product design to manufacturing. Tour a seamlessly connected process that goes from Fusion 360 to Upchain to Fusion 360 Manage and finally to Prodsmart. The Team D3 rock stars for these products will be on stage presenting a coordinated role-based demo of product data passed through each primary product in the Fusion 360 cloud-based platform, powered under the hood by Team D3's ForgeFlow integration, existing Autodesk in-product integrations, and open-source tech sales demonstration tools such as Sven Dickmans' manufacturing bill of materials (MBOM) tool. We'll focus on the product experience and proof of the convergence use cases from beginning to end in the design-to-manufacture lifecycle. This session will focus on the Fusion 360 cloud products used for product design (Autodesk Fusion 360), product data management (Upchain), product lifecycle management (Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage), and manufacturing execution (Prodsmart), as well as a connected data pathway between them all.

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.

A typical manufacturing company is very digitally mature in the design office. However, that maturity reduces as we move down toward production. The manufacturing process can easily become costly and inefficient due to the use of software or paper-based methods that do not fit the goals of collaboration, traceability, accountability, reporting, and so on. As a result of this, customers can lose a lot of time finding the correct data at the correct time, ensuring that the correct versions of files are in use, understanding what past decisions were made and why, reworking parts to correct mistakes, and reworking scrapped parts. This talk will look at how customers can use Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage Extension and Prodsmart together with Vault software in order to create a digitally connected platform for process and data management as well as the scheduling of jobs and resources on the shop floor. We will also look at how this then enables better change control processes around the process configuration.

CAD data is the most important intellectual property that a manufacturer has. Autodesk offers products that create, manage, and enrich this data. AutoCAD, Inventor, and Autodesk Fusion 360 software create this data while Vault, Fusion 360 Manage Extension, and Upchain help manage it. The cloud-based Fusion 360 and Autodesk Construction Cloud platforms facilitate collaboration within the field, while Prodsmart helps collaboration within production. Simultaneously, aspects of this data need to be shared with other enterprise systems like ERP. Ultimately, all these systems must be able to share aspects of this data throughout the lifecycle of a manufacturer's products. We'll demonstrate, via examples of Autodesk customer projects, how technologies such as Autodesk Platform Services and other third-party technologies make it possible to share this important data between these systems rather than leaving it siloed in different systems.