At Southern California Edison (SCE), we have standardized and obtained efficiencies in our design and engineering processes by using AutoCAD Utility Design software as our transmission and distribution graphical design tool. This class will present the approach used to unify our design process using AutoCAD Utility Design, beginning with external work management through the workflow and ending with the validation of the design and bills of materials that are being sent to an external work management system. Along the way, we will discuss accessing external mapping/GIS and SAP® asset information within AutoCAD Utility Design and as well as the tool's ability to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements throughout the design process. With an emphasis on realizing the benefits of an IPSEC-based (Initiate, Plan, Schedule, Execute, Close) work order lifecycle, we will also discuss SCE’s solution to transmission and distribution design interactivity through our estimating and material ordering phases and our approach to eliminating the need for manual entry directly into our SAP enterprise resource planning systems (ERP).

This is an update to last year's class, Choosing Autodesk PLM 360. This class provides a customer perspective regarding the ease of enhancing and maintaining a Autodesk PLM 360 software tenant. After go-live, Greenpoint Technologies, Inc., has continually developed and enhanced its tenant reporting capabilities, Vault software integration, and enterprise resource planning integration. In this class we will discuss what was easy, what was difficult, and what you should look out for.

This is a description of the journey that Unverferth Mfg. Co., Inc., took when the company went from drawings boards and paper to a virtual digital world using Vault Professional software. We will talk about how the firm merged 3 independent and separately located Engineering departments into a single department. We will demonstrate our procedures—including file management, items use, and establishment of a 100%-digital Change Order and Approval process—and we'll talk about how we did them. Then we'll show how we are integrating with our enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

Learn how Southern California Edison uses AutoCAD software-based drafting tools to produce designs in a rapidly changing industry. This class discusses how the Transmission and Distribution groups produce work order packages using the AutoCAD Utility Design tool, resulting in greater consistency, accuracy, standardization, and ability to feed downstream processes in the enterprise. We also discuss how designs are initiated and how engineering tools feed into the final design within a tightly integrated network. All of these processes occur within the context of enterprise-level resource planning, and the downstream systems such as mapping, GIS, and SAP® that consume design data, including design validations, material ordering, scheduling, and construction. This class also examines future design elements in the industry, such as cloud-based computing, 3D renderings, and data point clouds.

This class covers the challenges and victories of a 100-year-old company that has transitioned from drawing on a drafting board to AutoCAD® software for 2D and 3D CAD, then to AutoCAD® Mechanical design software, and finally to Inventor® 3D CAD software. We describe how the company has adapted its own standards over the years to expedite the release of drawings to manufacturing in a very time-critical environment. Finally, we discuss how the company has decided to take technology by the horns with both 3D prototype/model design and a business enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

Like a recipe or business card, items represent things within your business. Items represent the components that the company manages, assembles, sells, and manufactures. Autodesk Vault Professional software introduces the ability to generate items and manage an item master. Within this class you will learn what items are and how to provide both engineering staff and non-engineering (no access to a CAD application) with access to the data. We will cover how to issue new stock numbers and build intelligent naming schemes. You will learn how to attach your CAD data smartly with proper property (metadata) information mapping. You will also learn how to provide a mechanism for exchange of data between Vault and enterprise resource planning (ERP), manufacturing resource planning (MRP), and product lifecycle management (PLM) systems. We will discuss release management for lifecycles and revision schemes. You will learn how to create bills of materials (BOMs) for your items. Finally, we will cover change orders and how items are integrated.

Hear how JE Dunn Construction teamed with Autodesk Consulting utilizing Forge platform-based APIs to develop integration between JE Dunn’s SharePoint-based Dunn Dashboard and BIM 360 Document Management. Learn how the document sync integration has enabled construction documents to be easily accessible to the construction professionals at the jobsite and maintained JE Dunn’s Dunn Dashboard as the single source of truth for all project documents. This BIM 360 Document Management-based integration is built on top of the project automation that was developed for JE Dunn ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and further has enabled the extension of the firm’s construction-based data and document flows into the construction ecosystem.

This class will focus on high-level workflows between BIM 360 Cost Management software and various, standard, industry enterprise resource planning (ERP) packages. We will also introduce the middlewares making these connections, and the importance of connecting project controls with construction ERPs.

Product lifecycle management (PLM) systems such as Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage software or Upchain run in the cloud while Vault software and most enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are still installed on-premises. Hidden behind firewalls, on-premises software cannot directly receive update notifications from cloud applications, and have difficulty synchronizing with changes from cloud systems. Polling data from large data sets is time consuming and inefficient. Automated synchronization and digital transformation of data between hybrid PDM, PLM, and ERP systems require more-sophisticated solutions. This class will demonstrate how to efficiently send data from cloud to on-premise systems. We’ll use different examples to demonstrate how the Autodesk Forge Webhooks API and Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage Action Scripts are used to automatically update entities in Vault software, or how cloud PLM systems automatically send Bill of Materials (BOM) data to on-premise ERP systems without the need for the on-premise software to poll for data.

Sick of low margins and high risk? Get control of your project costs and gain visibility into real-time information with the cloud. Join this session to learn about robust cost-management capabilities within Autodesk Build software, innovative new features, and ERP (enterprise resource planning) integration availability. Improving cost management practices can transform your projects, lowering risk and increasing profitability.

Wait, what? You can create a bill of materials (BOM) in AutoCAD software? In this class, we’ll explore the options for creating a BOM in AutoCAD and the embedded tools within AutoCAD Mechanical software. We'll export the BOM both manually and automatically. We'll check in the drawing to Vault Professional software, and use Vault software's tools to manage and manipulate the BOM. Then we'll explore our options for sharing the BOM with ERP (enterprise resource planning), Autodesk PLM 360 software, Microsoft SharePoint, and other systems.

Experience with VACCO Industries the effort of upgrading from PLM 360 software to Fusion Lifecycle software. This presentation will explore the planning and requirements used for the upgrade, as well as best practices and lessons learned. Working closely with Autodesk, this lecture can assist all existing Fusion Lifecycle customers and new potential customers as we discuss the pros and cons of each environment. We'll include a live demonstration and a peek into VACCO's workflows, integrated workspaces, and other system integrations with Vault data management software and ERP (enterprise resource planning).

Connecting engineering (Vault software) with purchase (ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning) is a mandatory step. Nowadays, technology helps, as most ERP systems provide APIs or the like. This session will show you how Vault and ERP can be connected in a direct way, so operations are immediate, data is kept just once (no data redundancy), and users know right away whether the action was successful or not. You will see a live integration between Vault and Microsoft Dynamics NAV, and we will also talk about other ERP systems like SAP, and others.

This case study is about an enterprise launch of BIM 360 software and Autodesk Construction Cloud as our design and construction platform. We have 1,000+ internal (and as many external) collaborators using full capabilities. Since January 1, 2021, we’ve automated the creation of 1,500 active BIM 360 projects, and in May of 2022, we launched Autodesk Construction Cloud—all in less than 18 months. And 100% of the new projects will use Autodesk Construction Cloud. Our aggressive timeline is focused on our commitment to digitization and project delivery. You’ll hear the pains and gains of this transition from legacy systems into a collaborative, data-driven space. Our first goal was operational efficiency and a consolidated project experience. Being committed to streamlining our project execution, we’re realizing our long-term data-driven results and we’re beginning to harvest project insights. The study will preview how we use Autodesk Forge, Data Connector, and Bridge for data integration, and you’ll understand the resources, planning, and investment needed for enterprise success

Today, in precast factories, we often find that each department has its own software and associated information stored in its own data silos. Quite often, this disjointed information leads to wrong decisions, resulting in annoyed customers, demotivated employees, and, ultimately, lost profits. A solution to this situation is provided by the BIM (Building Information Modeling) software Revit extended with special precast features fully connected with an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. This class shows the power of an integrated ERP system in a precast factory where no data has to be inserted twice and all participants use the same data (a single source of truth). We’ll cover estimation with data from Revit, take a detailed look at automation tools for Revit, and create CAM data for production. In the ERP, we’ll see the planning of production, logistics, materials, and resources. We explore the communication between the precaster, the client, and the site via the cloud with the Precast 360 platform (based on the Forge).

Building hundreds of single-family homes is a challenge impossible to tackle without the help of a well-integrated IT infrastructure. Therefore, we took BIM 360 software into the heart of our Enterprise Resource Planning (Microsoft Dynamics NAV) and helped our different departments thrive in accomplishing their tasks. Out of our fully integrated construction chain, we will show the window procurement, installation, and repair procedure as an example of how to interact with the BIM 360 model in our ERP, and how to exchange data instantly between the ERP and BIM 360. As the access permissions settings were defined already in our ERP, Forge gave us the possibility to sync the security settings for hundreds of projects and stakeholders instantly.

It is common for most sheet metal fabricators to have an ERP (enterprise resource planning) or MRP (material requirements planning) system, as well as software that addresses their needs for nesting and machine programming. What is not commonplace is for those systems to talk to one another very well. This class will present a case study in which the users are designing in Inventor software, managing their revisions and model data in Vault software, using a cloud-based ERP system to input sales and inventory information, and using TruNest to drive all of the machines connected to their sheet metal fabrication operations. What this class will demonstrate to attendees is a fully integrated sheet metal fabrication workflow, from the design of the product to its manufacture on the shop floor.

Deriving a product design into a manufacturing process is a continuous challenge. Catching up with the latest design changes is often a manual and error-prone, slow process performed in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. With the Vault PLM solution, this process can be vastly improved as both the engineering BOM and the manufacturing BOM are accessible and linked in a single system. Workflow mechanisms help ensure that data received from engineering gets transitioned properly and extended to define manufacturing processes. The resulting manufacturing then gets published to ERP upon approval of manufacturing change orders. In this session, you will see how this process is managed in an integrated environment. We will use a custom-built smart editor to automate this process as much as possible and to provide visual indicators to help ensure a proper alignment of structures in an easy way.

In this roundtable discussion, users of Inventor Engineer-to-Order software and Configurator 360 software can share their successes and difficulties about specific techniques they’ve used in implementing Sales Engineering and Engineering Automation Solutions. Expected topics will include Inventor software drawings and bills of materials; data management; integration with third-party systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), client relationship management (CRM), and general databases; powerful deployment and maintenance strategies; on-boarding new staff; and so on. Attendees should be familiar with Inventor Engineer-to-Order software or Configurator 360 software, or they should be curious about how it feels to really work with these products. Bring either an experience or a question. Autodesk, Inc.’s, Inventor Engineer-to-Order and Configurator 360 staff members will also contribute to the discussion.

Are you struggling to maximize all the benefits of going digital? Like many industries, the process industry struggles in the adoption of the efficiencies of digital. Whether designing a plant from scratch, modifying an existing installation, or upgrading old equipment—vendor and EPC collaboration for a single equipment tag can still take hours, stacks of printed paper drawings are still supplied in submittal, and CAD assets can be disconnected or are sometimes unavailable. Learn how Emerson has maximized Autodesk Forge software to help accelerate industry digital transformation by improving the digital customer experience. Autodesk Forge is the platform that connects enterprise resource planning (ERP), product lifecycle management (PLM), and business logic—providing a complete CAD configuration experience on MyEmerson and Emerson.com. Learn also how this digital platform backbone enables a future of asset management, design automation, common data environments, IoT visualization, and digital twins.