What breaks when a 10-person engineering team becomes a 70-person manufacturing organization? This session will explore M2X's real-world journey scaling with Inventor, Vault, AutoCAD Plant 3D, and Autodesk Fusion Manage software. Learn how the team transitioned from ad hoc design workflows to structured data management and a connected PDM/PLM strategy. We'll cover how to time tool adoption, avoid common scaling missteps, and enable cross-functional collaboration between engineering and production. You'll gain practical frameworks to structure product data, build a digital thread, and support rapid growth while improving quality, reducing rework, and maintaining control across the product lifecycle.

Hear directly from leading organizations across industries as they share how PLM is helping them transform the way they work. In this dynamic panel, customers will discuss how they connect data, streamline processes, and improve collaboration to tackle real business challenges. From accelerating time to market to improving product quality and reducing costs, you'll gain practical insights into what's working, what they've learned, and how they're achieving measurable results. Whether you're early in your connected data and processes journey or you're looking to scale, this session will offer actionable takeaways. This session is part of the PLM Summit a curated learning and networking experience. To explore related sessions, select “PLM Summit” track.

Manufacturing organizations often struggle with disconnected systems across sales, engineering, and production. This class will show how Vault PLM software forms the backbone of a connected digital thread spanning customer relationship management (CRM), CAD, product data management (PDM), product lifecycle management (PLM), manufacturing execution systems (MES), and enterprise resource planning (ERP). Starting from a CRM order, we'll demonstrate rule-based CAD automation, engineering data management in Vault, and seamless Item and BOM synchronization into Autodesk Fusion Manage driven by the built-in connector. Design reviews are handled through a web interface powered by the Vault Data API, manufacturing execution runs in Autodesk Fusion Operations, and business data flows into ERP event-driven and AI-assisted. See how Vault PLM bridges engineering and enterprise to streamline the journey, from order to delivery.

Learn how Overhead Door shaved 18 months off its new product development (NPD) timeline. What once averaged 30 months now follows a standardized phase-gated process in Autodesk Fusion Manage to be completed in under 12 months with most projects tracking ahead of schedule. This session will explore this journey of improving resource visibility, strengthening cross-functional collaboration, and creating leadership visibility into bottlenecks.

Discover how Visure Solutions and Autodesk unite ALM and PLM to enable a seamless digital thread across software lifecycles and physical designs. This session will explore how integrating Visure's strengths in requirements and traceability with the Autodesk Fusion Manage capabilities delivers end-to-end visibility from concept to validation. Learn how AI enhances impact analysis, automates traceability, and supports smarter decision making. Through practical use cases, we'll show how teams can reduce risk, accelerate development, and ensure alignment across engineering disciplines, while meeting the evolving expectations of modern product development.

Get a greater understanding of how businesses can unlock the full potential of Autodesk Fusion data management and PLM in this hands-on workshop. Learn how to connect design data, streamline workflows, and standardize processes across the product lifecycle. You'll explore key capabilities of Autodesk Fusion Manage, helping you manage product data, improve collaboration, and reduce errors from design through production. This session will provide a clear introduction and practical insights for anyone looking to get more value from integrated data management and PLM within the Fusion platform.

Kick off the PLM Summit with a high-impact keynote from Srinath Jonnalagadda, vice president of Data Management at Autodesk. He'll dive into how organizations are tackling disconnected systems, data complexity, and relentless pressure to move faster. You'll also gain insights into how Autodesk is addressing these challenges head-on advancing connected data and process strategies and using the power of AI. This session will set the tone by spotlighting key themes, challenges, and opportunities you'll explore during the PLM Summit. Lunch will be served immediately following the session in the same room, so plan to stay and join us.

By 2027, every manufacturer selling into the European market will be required to provide a Digital Product Passport (DPP) and most are not ready. This session will show how Autodesk Fusion Manage software can close that gap, while also solving a longer-standing problem: disconnected data between process plant design and PLM. You'll see how equipment data from AutoCAD Plant 3D projects on Autodesk Forma (formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud) can automatically populate Fusion Manage BOMs eliminating manual handoffs between plant design and PLM. And you'll see how that same structure can generate EU-compliant DPPs on demand, without duplicate data entry connecting project context from Autodesk Forma with product lifecycle data where it belongs. Both extensions are built on Autodesk Platform Services APIs and demonstrated live.

World-class implementations don't happen by accident they're built on deep knowledge of how to make Autodesk tools work together intelligently. In this no-fluff session, Allen Gager will reveal the secrets every expert knows for maximizing Autodesk Assistant across the Autodesk platform while building a robust common data environment (CDE) powered by Vault and Vault PLM software. Discover how to use Autodesk Assistant (now integrated in Vault 2027, Autodesk Fusion, AutoCAD, Autodesk Forma, and beyond) as your always-on, context-aware AI partner. Learn natural language techniques to find files faster, automate routine tasks, get in-context guidance, query project data, and even drive simple automations without ever leaving your workflow.

Product lifecycle management (PLM) is often treated as a system of record for BOMs but leading teams are using it to drive product strategy, execution, and cross-functional alignment. In this session, we'll show how to evolve PLM into a product management backbone that connects engineering, operations, and business decisions. You'll learn practical workflows for managing product definitions, changes, and lifecycle data in a way that improves visibility, reduces delays, and enables better decision making. Walk away with patterns you can apply immediately to move beyond BOM management and unlock real business value from PLM.

In this session, we'll explore the complete factory asset lifecycle from the initial procurement and commissioning of equipment to maintenance, optimization, and eventual decommissioning. You'll learn how to use cloud-based PLM to gain real-time visibility into production readiness, track the health of your physical assets, and eliminate silos between engineering and the shop floor.

Join us as we explore improvements that we've made in research and development in the area of data management for Autodesk Fusion 360, from Fusion 360 software's canvas, to Fusion Team, to the Manage Extension.

This class will cover the journey of a mid-size company that had the audacity to create a global solution to unite resources and projects in that one instance on a global scale. We'll touch on implementation follow-up, changes, alterations, adjustments, sacrificed chickens, and sometimes just some educated luck. We'll show the process used to meld people and project management together in one instance of Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage.

General contractors, like Bouygues Construction, face new challenges: skilled workforce shortages and a need for sustainability engagement (carbon footprint reduction) and high quality. Compared to the manufacturing industry, the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry has been struggling to improve productivity for years. To tackle these challenges, we need to transform our ways of working by going beyond building information modeling (BIM)-expected outcomes. Our dedicated team SmartFabrik embeds engineering methodology as a new approach to construction in functional bricks. These bricks maximize knowledge and know-how management (from all actors at all steps). Through this new modularity, we can produce deliverables that meet the jobsite's actual needs and requirements. This process is a foundation of Building 4.0, moving from multitrade on-site activities to modules and tasks' assembly. The as-built model is the starting point for the future digital twin. During this class we'll illustrate the approach with the MEP Riser module using Manufacturing Informed Design software.

Unlock your potential with this engaging, instructor-led masterclass tailored for industry professionals eager to implement and operate cloud-based product data management (PDM) in just one day. This two-hour interactive session will guide you through the essentials of Upchain Cloud PDM, emphasizing its near-immediate time-to-value capabilities. From project creation to essential functions such as check-in/out, cloning, bill of materials (BOM) management, and straightforward engineering change and release, you'll gain invaluable insights and hands-on skills to transform your workflows. Join us for this immersive experience where you'll have the opportunity to set up your complimentary out-of-the-box (OOTB) tenant and test-drive the benefits of Upchain Cloud PDM. Beyond the tutorial, you'll meet our Autodesk Solutions Engineer team, fostering valuable industry connections. Don't miss this unique opportunity to elevate your productivity, enhance collaboration, and drive innovation in your company.

Fusion Lifecycle software can be deployed faster than any other PLM (product lifecycle management) tool on the market. This was tested for a company that wanted to take its ventilator project to production in the shortest time possible due to the COVID-19 ventilator shortage. A prototype of the ventilator was completed using Fusion 360 software. Now it is time to take it into mass production using Items and BOMs, ECO, and NPI Workspace of Fusion Lifecycle.

Are you working on ways to help automate design and make workflows for you or your customers? Are you trying to share product information between applications such as Fusion Lifecyle software and Fusion 360 software, or those outside the Autodesk ecosystem? Learn about how Forge data is powering a shared product information model to enable your design and make data flow more seamlessly across your workflows, teams, and the applications you use.

Learn how to increase efficiency in your development process by implementing Vault software and Fusion Lifecycle software. In this class, you will hear about the journey Reynaers Aluminium took to move from its old product data management (PDM) system to a fully integrated solution: CAD, PDM, PLM (product lifecycle management), and enterprise resource planning (ERP). You will learn about the how and why behind our architecture and the lessons learned during implementation. Get insight into the place PDM and PLM have in our organization today, how they are connected with other core databases, and what our further digitalization road map looks like. Also discover how Fusion Lifecycle offers article lifecycle management as well as full project management by streamlining our NPI (new product introduction) flow. All project phases are implemented into Fusion Lifecyle, including a customized project management tab to enable real project planning. Integrating Fusion Lifecycle with Vault creates one common platform, resulting in an efficient way of collaboration as well as a single source of truth across the company.

Sharing data with suppliers in real time, the right format, and the latest version is a challenge for global supply chains. Keeping everyone in the lifecycle posted about changes is barely possible without a real-time collaboration platform. Learn about the key benefits for supplier collaboration provided by Fusion Lifecycle cloud-based PLM (product lifecycle management) system: real-time data provisioning and acknowledgement; definition and tracking of suppler deliverables; integration of suppliers in change management activities

As part of our 2021 product releases, many products will include a faster install and easier deployment experience that will automate critical updates, customize and streamline deployment, and let users get up and running instantly without any downtime. Come learn from an expert about the new install experience!