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Success Plan: Subtractive Manufacturing

The ability to achieve required surface finishing and material removal for a part/component using Subtractive Manufacturing.


Course overview

The ability to achieve required surface finishing and material removal for a part/component using Subtractive Manufacturing. Do you need: 

  • Availability of Data to all users to enable Subtractive Manufacturing to initialize
  • Standardized approach to program various machines to manufacture required? components?
  • Matured methods to feedback manufacturing processes to maximize uptime and efficiencies?
  • Consolidation of CAM tools working together to minimize non-productive machine time across the facility?
  • Full automation including, auto setup, design modification adaption, on machine verification through unattended operations?

Any of the modules in this course will help you accomplish any of the objectives above. Simply get started in the module of your choice depending upon the technology that your team has access to.

Course outline

30 min.

Prepare your team for change

The success of any business and its initiatives depends upon the success of its people adopting a new way to work as the world changes. Here, you gain an understanding of the need for planning and managing organizational changes to achieve the business improvements and success that comes with initiatives, new tools or processes, organizational re-structuring, training, or similar introductions of new ways of working.

Understanding how to connect your business goals to the technology you have purchased makes it much easier to justify your software budget year over year. Learn how to talk about the benefits of your Autodesk subscriptions and how they connect to your company’s strategic goals.

After completion, you should be able to:

  • Understand the importance of planning change.
  • Create your stakeholder map

Steps include the following:

Set your initiative up for success by forming your core team and planning for change.

Templates included: Stakeholder Map

Define your stakeholders and champions

Schedule an alignment call with your stakeholders 

Review your metrics and capture current state

Would you like help tracking your metrics? Submit this form and one of our specialists will contact you.

Verify your technology and data are prepared 

Determine time commitment and where the team should charge their time 

Share the maturity assessment with your team 

Update the notes in the plan with your vision to create alignment

Templates: Stakeholder Map and other worksheets


30 min.

Brief your team

Share the vision with your organization to create excitement and generate momentum for change.

Share the vision with your organization to create excitement and generate momentum for change.

 

Assemble your communication plan

Communicate with your organization

Templates included: Communications Templates


30 min.

Hold a kick-off meeting

Launch your initiative by providing a full understanding of the workflows and their benefits.

Launch your initiative by providing a full understanding of the workflows and their benefits.

Adjust kickoff agenda and PowerPoint

Be prepared to demonstrate the solution

Host kickoff meeting

 

Templates: Kickoff agenda and PowerPoint


2 hr. 30 min.

Upskill your team in Subtractive Manufacturing

The ability to achieve required surface finishing and material removal for a part/component using Subtractive Manufacturing.

Successfully Increase Your Maturity

The ability to achieve required surface finishing and material removal for a part/component using Subtractive Manufacturing.

Equip your team with the learning content and support they need to successfully adopt new workflows by selecting the right maturity level for your company's needs.

If you have attempted to implement your Autodesk technology on your own and still have questions, working with your Autodesk partner would be the best next step. If you are not already working with an Autodesk Partner, find a partner today.

*Not sure of your team’s needs? Take the capability maturity assessment in the Autodesk Solution Adoption Advisor.


15 min.

Track your progress

Evaluate your progress by gathering feedback from users and tracking metrics. Share wins amongst the team to increase excitement and buy-in.

 

Evaluate your progress by gathering feedback from users and tracking metrics. Share wins amongst the team to increase excitement and buy-in.

Track your team’s progress towards your metrics

Would you like help tracking your metrics? Submit this form and one of our specialists will contact you.

Gather feedback from users

Share out wins amongst the team 

Discover the impact of the training on your team by using this Post Training Coaching Template. These example questions can help you start a conversation with your team about what they’ve learned, how the training may impact their work, who else on the team could benefit from it, and more.


30 min.

Review and reassess your plan

Keep stakeholders and executives informed of the initiative progress by sharing key metrics and success stories and adjust the plan as necessary to ensure success.

Keep stakeholders and executives informed of the initiative’s progress by sharing key metrics and success stories and adjust the plan as necessary to ensure success.

Complete the readout or reporting template with the information gathered in step 5.

Provide feedback to your stakeholders and executives to inform them of your progress

Adjust the plan as necessary to ensure success.  We’ve provided a retrospective template you can use as a team to evaluate what is going well and what isn’t going well, and next steps.


Templates: Reporting template and retrospective example