Generative Design is changing how designers and engineers bring new products to market. By leading with objectives and functional requirements, Generative Design allows users to rapidly generate and explore 100’s or 1000’s of higher performing design options that would have been previously unexplored. What’s new to many – is that the value of Generative Design is not exclusive to the aerospace industry and additive manufacturing. Generative Design now has the ability to explore options for traditional manufacturing techniques as well like CNC, and provide inspiration for casting. TB Wood’s is a recognized industry leader for highly-engineered industrial machinery applications. TB Wood’s has been producing commercial castings for over 160 years, while being a global leader in the design and manufacture of couplings and belted drive solutions. Join Autodesk & TB Wood’s for an overview on how to connect the benefits of Generative Design with the industrial machinery industry.

Digital transformation is the hot topic in the industrial machinery industry—but what does digital transformation mean to you? What problem(s) do you face? What needs to change? Why digital transformation? How will we recognize success? In which part of your business does transformation need to occur? Sales? Logistics? Inventory? Design and manufacturing? All of these! In this roundtable for industrial machinery leaders, we'll discuss current industry trends and pressures, share considerations for effective change, and debate how we can measure the success (and failure!) of our digital transformation initiatives. Join the best minds in the industry to help find answers and clarify your goals and approach to digital transformation in industrial machinery.

This class will cover the basics of finite element analysis (FEA) and explore examples (including linear stress, modal-to-heat transfer, and dynamic simulations) in order to gain additional insight and improve product design for automotive, oil and gas, and industrial machinery industries.

In this class, we start with an overview of how simulation can be used during the complete design process. Simulation enables our customers to stand out from their competition because they can be more innovative and get to market faster while ensuring product quality. We cover several tools, including Autodesk® Force Effect™ and Dynamic Simulation in Inventor® 3D CAD software. We look at sloshing by performing a CFD analysis with Autodesk® Simulation CFD software, and we use Autodesk® Simulation Mechanical software to analyze vibrations.

This is our introduction class for the finite element analysis (FEA) with Autodesk Nastran Power Track. In this session we will introduce the Autodesk Nastran Power Track speakers and all the classes included in this power track. This class will cover the basics of FEA and explore examples (including linear stress, modal-to-heat transfer, and dynamic simulations) in order to gain additional insight and improve product design for automotive, oil and gas, and industrial machinery industries.

More connection speed, more reaction time—interoperability plays a vital role in our daily design collaborations that help with flexible production lines and reduced integration costs. Many industrial machinery and manufacturing industries have realized the benefits of using both 2D and 3D CAD software together—and the list of reasons is long, including better collaboration and increased efficiency, to name a few. In those cases, it’s important that your data remains fully associative. In all such scenarios, AutoCAD Mechanical software provides a feature called Inventor Link that enables you to link Inventor assembly (.iam) and part (.ipt) documents to a drawing file and display the 3D model in model space. Then, you can generate 2D drawings of the 3D model in paper space and annotate them. This class aims to show how you can use Inventor Link in AutoCAD Mechanical for increased efficiency, reduced time, and better collaboration.

As part of Fusion 360 Ultimate software, Autodesk Generative Design is the new design space tool for designers and engineers capitalizing on the power of cloud and artificial intelligence (AI). During this class, we are going to discover how to use it for expanding and increasing the innovation on machinery industries effecting products’ performance and production costs. We will use real customer examples.

This class will outline the real case study of virtual reality (VR) technology adoption by Tenova, an industrial machinery company for mining and metals, supported by Autodesk Consulting. After a brief introduction to Tenova and the project’s background, attendees will see activities run by Autodesk Consulting and Tenova to lead to the adoption of a tailored process for using VR for design review and visualization. The audience will see the workflow implemented, and they’ll learn the process to use 3ds Max software and 3ds Max Interactive to navigate a Filmbox file with Live Viewer. Come and learn the best practices to follow for VR.

This class will look at how Alias software and VRED software enable the design and visualization of heavy machinery and equipment.

Fusion 360 software now offers a simple workflow for programming industrial robot arms. Anyone familiar with post-processing machine code from Fusion 360 can now create robot code in the same way. During this lab, users will use the manufacturing space from Fusion 360 to generate robot native code that can drive industrial robot arms. First, we will show a generic robot workflow within Fusion 360 that will post with the ABB post processor. Then, we will cover exporting code into a virtual robot simulator, ABB RobotStudio, for validation. We’ll then pivot to recordings at Autodesk Technology Centers, explaining calibration of various coordinate systems localizing the robot arm and robot operation for milling applications. We’ll introduce other applications that participants can use with this workflow, such as welding and additive. Finally, we will share various case studies from Autodesk Technology Center residents and customers utilizing Fusion 360 for industrial robots.

Industrial robots have come a long way from the simple pick-and-place operations on production lines and they are now being introduced into an increasing number of applications. Their versatility, large working volume, robustness, and high repeatability, along with their low relative cost makes them well suited to the repetitive and destructive environments of production facilities.Industrial robot technology has evolved significantly with new methodologies as well as new capabilities. Robots were traditionally programmed by teaching the robot every point required for a process. With modern software programming tools, the path generation can be completed offline, away from the shop floor. Full virtual simulation allows any issues to be picked up before the process is run on the real cell. This has resulted in significantly reduced programming times and therefore an increase in the complexity of the tasks that can be achieved while removing the programming task from the critical path of a new robot install. However, the software resources available only solve half the issue. Industrial robot hardware has inherent errors that limit the applications they can complete. These include inaccurate methods for identifying coordinate systems and work offsets, error stacking from the robot joints, response to applied forces and axis reversals. This talk aims to look at the software and hardware solutions that can reduce or completely remove these sources of error for applications such as milling, polishing, and non-contact metrology.

Generative design is often seen as an alien parts generator. In this session, we will share how we incorporated this design exploration method into our traditional design process, and how we applied the method on a very typical welded parts assembly of an automatic tools changer on a CNC machine tool. With no specific expectations, as we believed it was already fully optimized, we achieved almost 20% of mass reduction, positively impacting the overall machine precision. And as a side benefit—we got really good-looking parts. You'll learn which selection method we used to identify potential parts for generative design and how we defined the success criteria. We'll cover the whole process, from multiple designs exploration up to production and installation itself. We'll also discuss our generative design rollout plan.

From water and steam power, to interchangeable parts, to the assembly line, to computer-based production, manufacturers have always adapted to the opportunities presented by technological change. Now, the industry is at the cusp of yet another new era, one marked by pervasive connectivity and communications, powerful advances in simulation and design tools, and production technologies that hold the promise of changing the paradigm of manufacturing itself.How should manufacturers think about, evaluate and take advantage of the possibilities with technologies such as additive manufacturing, crowd sourcing, and distributed models of production?

From water and steam power, to interchangeable parts, to the assembly line, to computer-based production, manufacturers have always adapted to the opportunities presented by technological change. Now, the industry is at the cusp of yet another new era, one marked by pervasive connectivity and communications, powerful advances in simulation and design tools, and production technologies that hold the promise of changing the paradigm of manufacturing itself.How should manufacturers think about, evaluate and take advantage of the possibilities with increasingly intelligent and connected machines, advanced automation, and open-source hardware and software?

How is your industrial organization utilizing the latest Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools to design, fabricate, coordinate, and construct in a client-friendly, cost-effective manner? In this round table we will discuss BIM and its use in industrial engineering and construction. We will dive into tools, techniques, and workflows that offer a satisfying return on investment, and we'll explore the different ways that participants in the 3D world are executing projects. Discussions will center on Plant Design Suite, Navisworks project review software, and BIM 360 software.

Join Xometry’s Greg Paulsen for an in-depth comparison between five major, plastic 3D printing processes. In this talk, you will learn what makes them unique, how they are used, and what to consider when choosing an additive manufacturing process. Paulsen will discuss the following industrial 3D printing methods: HP Multi Jet Fusion (MJF); selective laser sintering (SLS); fused deposition modeling (FDM); stereolithography (SLA); and carbon digital light synthesis (DLS). Whether it’s cost concerns, mechanical function, performance environment, cosmetics, or output, this topic will help steer the design approach for end-use 3D-printed parts. The presentation will conclude with an open question-and-answer session.

Industrial robots are suitable for an extremely wide range of fabrication and construction processes. Commonly used in automotive production and other high-volume production, robots are now implemented in the production of architectural components, low-volume production, and academia. The potential of the Industrial Robotic manipulator makes for an appealing tool for shops, design firms, and fabricators who want numerical control capability but do not have the means to invest in many specialized computer numerical control (CNC) tools. As the cost of hardware drops, designers have more access to these tools; but perceived hurdles limit the diffusion of manipulators in many settings. This course provides a pragmatic intro to the Industrial Robot as a tool that supports many numerically controlled activities. The course will provide details of the procurement, requisite tooling, safety, installation, and calibration. We will also conduct a hands-on demonstration of the commissioning and basic operation of an industrial robot arm. This session features PowerMill. AIA Approved

This class is about showing how it is possible to work with mechanical softwares, which at the first impression seem incompatible with Revit or other to do correct 3D coordination, and to produce effectively 2D plans without geometry limitation. It will be based on the case-study of a construction project of a hydroelectric pumping station located in Morroco with a contract of 284 millions euros. The content of this class will demonstrate and share the practical solution that could be applied in any industrial construction projects.

The demands for new homes in Scandinavia are at an extreme level and at the same time the demand for houses for public services such as nurseries, schools and other community initiatives has increased radically. At the same time, the regulations have become more stringent with demands for better, more energy efficient and sustainable buildings. The customers of today are also much more aware of the quality aspects of living and the demands on modern housing have also increased dramatically. Life quality and product quality goes hand in hand. The Nordic countries have a long tradition of prefabricating quality homes in an industrial way including 3D-modelling, automated machinery and production lines. But the increasing demands have led to a need to reform the traditional way to sell, design, and pre-construct. This has led to a shift in the industry from drawings and models to Design Automation and Data-management. BIM is becoming a necessity and automated workflows is a part of the package. By using Revit as a standardised platform for the whole process, from Sales and Marketing, Design Procurement, Preconstruction and CNC-output, and combined with specific tools and integrations to the manufacturers internal business systems great savings have been made with regards to time but also an increase in quality. By enriching the models with additional data using web-based solutions like BIM 360 and BIMeye more stakeholders can participate and share and contribute in the development. The seminar will present and demonstrate an integrated workflow through from Early design to hand over, including pre-construction, CNC and information to construction site.