Data Management: How Autodesk Fusion Empowers Agile Product Development

Learn how Fusion empowers agile product development for teams by providing collaborative data management tools that enable real-time teamwork, automatic change tracking, comprehensive property management, detailed design history, and efficient bill of materials (BOM) management, significantly enhancing team agility and workflow speed.

Fusion is your go-to tool for agile product development, offering complex shape descriptions, standard part libraries, advanced configurations, and integrated electronic components. It’s designed to make teamwork easier and more efficient by allowing real-time collaboration. Let’s dive into the data management and collaboration tools in Fusion that make it easy to design and manufacture smarter and faster.

Data management features in Fusion

Real-time collaborative design

Fusion is perfect for teams that need to work together in real time. When you’re in Fusion, you can see who else is viewing or editing your components. To avoid conflicts, designs are reserved automatically when someone is editing. This means multiple people can work on the same project without stepping on each other’s toes.

Automatic change tracking

Every change you make is tracked over time, so you can always go back and see what was changed, when it happened, and who made the change. If you tweak an assembly, Fusion checks out the components for you so you can make your edits while others work on different parts. Once you’re done, it checks everything back in and updates everyone with the latest changes.

Managing properties

You can add properties to fully represent your product and describe how it’s made. Fusion comes with predefined industry-standard properties, but you can also define additional ones and integrate them from other tools via open APIs. When someone changes a property, the new value is automatically written to the model.

Design history and versioning

Fusion captures every change with a unique timestamp, so you can see property edits and design changes over time. Use the “Create version” command to save important milestones based on all changes up to that point. You can filter your component history to show only the important version milestones, and you can refer to them whenever you need.

Bill of materials (BOM) management

Fusion’s BOM feature lets you see property values for the entire assembly. You can expand multiple levels and edit part numbers, with system-wide checks to ensure uniqueness. You can add extended properties as columns and edit values directly in the cells. These edits are committed when your cursor leaves the cell.

Collaborative BOM editing

Fusion makes it easy for teams to collaborate with its data management tools by allowing multiple users to enter data at the same time from different interfaces. Team members can edit properties, see the changes reflected instantly, and share BOM links for cost estimation or other workflows. This means everyone stays on the same page and updates happen almost instantly.

Autodesk Fusion for data management

Fusion’s unique data management experience sets it apart from other design and manufacturing tools in the market. By enabling real-time collaboration and comprehensive property management, Fusion greatly increases your team’s agility and speeds up your workflow drastically. So why wait? Give Fusion a try today and see how it can revolutionize not only your data management processes, but your entire product development process.