Hear from ASME experts as they share the in-depth research results and insights that predict how new workflows will shape the future of work in manufacturing throughout the next five to ten years. A panel of industry and technology experts will discuss the overarching industry implications and business outcomes driving the advancement of manufacturing and how the roles of mechanical engineers, manufacturing engineers, and machinists will evolve—and we’ll identify the new set of hard and soft skills required to succeed. Learn how new workflows are taking hold in the industry. And discover the workforce training, technology, and operations infrastructure that is required to achieve fundamental improvements in productivity, quality, and profitability. Finally, learn how industry, academia, and government can support the development of the skills and knowledge among students and professionals.

Autodesk Inventor software can be used to save time, money, and scrap in manufacturing. Successfully manufacturing a product is not only about the final product, it also includes how you get there. In this class, we will show you how to use Inventor to work backwards to develop all the process steps of manufacturing a part. You first design the finished part you need, then use iParts and iLogic to engineer all the steps that are needed to get from a block of steel to a finished part. We will show you a workflow that takes advantage of the associative abilities of the "i" tools. As your finished product evolves, all of the production steps change as well. This workflow enables you to develop documentation for inspection, fabrication, work holding, fixturing, and machining 3D models of each progression. You can use stress analysis of parts in process to ensure that the process won't damage the final product. We will also offer tips and tricks that will help manufacturing engineers incorporate Inventor on the shop floor.

Mitch Free, CEO of MFG.com, will host this informative class on how the Internet has and continues to change the world of manufacturing. He will show how the Internet has helped designers, engineers, and sourcing professionals reach out and develop relationships with suppliers. Mitch will talk about the impact this new way of doing business is having in the world of manufacturing.

Additive manufacturing (AM) is one of the most disruptive and fastest-evolving manufacturing technologies available. How will you be prepared to take advantage of its benefits and adopt your 3D printing investments to where the industry is moving? Join the "Future of Additive Manufacturing" talk to learn about where AM is heading with new capabilities like generative design; how and why the software, materials, and machines that drive the industry are speeding adoption; and why all manufacturers and engineers should seriously consider AM as a viable, powerful, and unique alternative to traditional manufacturing techniques.

In today's complex and fast-paced Digital Prototyping world, architects and engineers need to share data and workflows between Building Information Modeling (BIM) systems and engineering and manufacturing systems. Part families and members defined and managed in the intelligent model need to be passed to engineering to drive detailed modeling, analysis, and ultimately, manufacturing. Likewise, vendors supplying engineered systems to the buildings need to provide their detailed engineering models and data in usable and efficient formats for inclusion in intelligent models. With Autodesk products, you can capture and automate these workflows that are critical success factors in today's large multidisciplinary projects. In this class, you learn about architectures and tools for implementing and automating these workflows and for seamlessly bridging the gap between BIM, engineering, and manufacturing.

With rapid growth in technology—especially in manufacturing processes—coordination between designers, engineers, and shop-floor CNC (computer numerical control) programmers is a challenging scenario. Manufacturers cannot always make designs created by designers and engineers, and they send the designs back to the design team for modification in the part model. Additionally, sometimes the right tools may not be available on the shop floor. To overcome these problems, designers and engineers should obtain a basic knowledge of CNC programming and CNC-code generation, which could reduce the time to market and enhance the company's return on investment. This class covers the steps involved in importing the CAD Model into Inventor HSM integrated CAM Solution for Inventor 2015 software. This process reduces the errors involved during importation and further enables designers and engineers to generate CNC codes and set up models for manufacturability. We will also discuss workflow regarding sending the codes to a machine.

How do designers' and engineers' models have an impact on machining and manufacturing? This class explores topics that need consideration throughout the design and engineering phase of each new project, including feature selection and issues surrounding modeling with parts versus assemblies.

When the concept itself or the concept designer cannot convey the idea or design to the engineer or manufacturing, it becomes the industrial designer’s job to walk the line between concept and engineering in order to convey the challenging concept to engineering and manufacturing. This class will not only explore personal experiences of a professional industrial designer working between concept and manufacturing, but will also identify key workflows or processes of how the industrial designer can communicate design concepts more effectively through communication techniques with engineering and manufacturing. This class is for anyone who would like to learn or have an understanding of the workflow and thought process of the industrial design industry and learn class-explained techniques and workflows to communicate concept and designs to others.

Discover how Viewrail, a leading stair and railing manufacturer, is harnessing the power of iLogic within Inventor software to redefine its engineer-to-order operations. Through a comprehensive demonstration, we'll illustrate the streamlined process of designing custom orders, enabling customer interaction through a dedicated portal, generating both customer and production facing prints, and seamlessly transferring manufacturing data to the shop floor. Gain invaluable insights into how Viewrail's strategic adoption of iLogic enhances efficiency and accelerates production timelines. Join us for an engaging conversation, and walk away inspired to revolutionize your own approach to engineer-to-order.

Generative design in Fusion is not just for complex aerospace components that require expensive and time-consuming additive manufacturing or 5-axis CNC. In this session we will demonstrate an end-to-end workflow from 2.5-axis Fusion generative design through CAM for “everyday” CNC parts which can be programmed and machined in a matter of minutes, not hours or days. Starting with generative design, we will explore how to make the best use of the new 2.5-axis machining constraints with one of the Autodesk nerds behind the technology, then discuss editing and refining outcomes. Finally, one of the Autodesk experts in CAM for generative outcomes will share strategies for programming and producing the generative parts. The emphasis will be on improving designer and manufacturing engineer productivity, reducing CAD, CAM, and machining time, and going from problem definition through production in hours, not days.

Most CAD/computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) tools are designed to enable engineers to design and manufacture products. From the very beginning ArtCAM software has been developed to enable artists and designer to create whatever they can imagine. ArtCAM is used in a variety of sectors from jewelry and coin minting, to the design and manufacture of architectural cornicing and facades. The common theme across these sectors is the desire to produce intricate artistic forms with incredible detail that can then be quickly and easily machined or 3D printed. This class will introduce you to the process that will enable you to take a simple 2D drawing and convert it into a complex decorative relief and machine it.

With engineering and design changing rapidily, the toolsets used to create the products of the future need to change. This class will take attendees through how the Product Design and Manufacturing collection, in particular the connection between Fusion 360 and Inventor, can address the challenges of the future. We will show how a connected cloud workflow can help designers and engineers take a product from concept through to manufacture utilising a truely integrated, advanced manufacturing toolset.

The world of manufacturing is rapidly changing. As designers, engineers, and manufacturers, we need to be more agile as our customers’ demands for the products they buy and use change. No longer are consumers happy with the status quo; more and more consumers want to be able to select and customize the products they are purchasing. So how can we stay competitive while giving consumers more choice? This is a problem we have spent the last 2 years tackling. Learn how a little start-up in a remote town in New Zealand is tackling this problem head-on with the help of Fusion 360 software and some good old kiwi ingenuity. We have been working hard to involve both existing and future customers in the product design and development process, letting our customers not only get the products they want, but get them at affordable prices. In this class, we will cover some of the ongoing challenges and key solutions to help make your road to agile manufacturing and industry 4.0 a little easier.

Since 80% of carbon is already locked into a product by the decisions made at the design phase, making good design and manufacturing choices is key to producing products with lower carbon impact. However, today, designers and engineers lack the data and tools to inform their design and manufacturing decisions, all while new and upcoming regulations are forcing designers and manufacturers to produce their products in more-sustainable ways. To tackle this issue, this talk will introduce Autodesk's new Manufacturing Sustainability Insights tool. Created in partnership with Gravity Climate, this interactive manufacturing-impact exploration tool for Autodesk Fusion 360 will provide users with valuable insights into the carbon emissions associated with producing their designs via various manufacturing methods, enabling users to make better informed decisions that support sustainable manufacturing practices, resulting in better products for the planet.

Take a look into the future of additive manufacturing. Find out about how design and manufacturing challenges are changing as additive manufacturing becomes more accessible.

This hands-on lab will introduce engineers and designers to the world of using CAM to program computer numerical control (CNC) machines and its connection to the design process. Through a series of guided exercises in Autodesk Fusion CAM, you'll gain practical experience in setting up stock material and coordinate systems, choosing tools, defining machining operations (including machining boundaries), simulating the toolpaths, and generating G-code for a CNC milling machine. This session will equip you to better communicate with CAM programmers and optimize your designs for manufacturability.

Design advancements are exciting and offer solutions previously unthought-of to complex problems. But we can’t forget the manufacturing processes needed to fabricate and eventually implement that new and optimized design. This class will focus on the emerging Generative Design technology in Fusion 360, and multiple ways to manufacture those designs, capitalizing on additive manufacturing, subtractive manufacturing, and a combination of both. The goal will be to explore design and manufacturing workflows to bring this emerging technology into the fold for potential users with varying levels of manufacturing capability. This class will address the workflow from initial generation to final part, focusing on the best practices found along the way.

Explore capabilities that accurately convey manufacturing process and design intent, while saving time by avoiding duplication and manual data entry. Participants will explore the promotion of sketch dimensions to 3D annotations, proper utilization of model states to demonstrate manufacturing stages, associative identification methods to inscribe critical information onto the model, methods to capture surface treatments or final production procedure, and the delivery of multiple downstream artifacts.

This seminar will cover design for digital manufacturing (DfDM) with a focus on additive manufacturing (DfAM). Capitalizing on the learnings from more than 1,000 projects posted on the You3Dit marketplace, we’ll walk our attendees through a DfAM process for translating customer needs into a design optimized for additive manufacturing, enabling performance, process, and product breakthroughs. We will describe high-level DfDM implications for common digital manufacturing tools, such as laser cutters, computer numerical control (CNC) machines, waterjet, and more. We will describe the overall DfDM process in the context of Fusion 360 software and how that workflow is optimized to support DfAM and other digital manufacturing technologies. Lastly, as a group we’ll create a set of design rules related to a new and powerful manufacturing process: “X.” The class will last 60 minutes, including 15 minutes at the end for questions and answers.

Get an inside look at our multiaxis drilling add-in for Autodesk Fusion software. It automatically detects holes, groups them by orientation, and respects machine kinematics to optimize computer numerical control (CNC) workflows, including cross drilling and advanced parameter controls. This live demo will walk you through the entire process—from hole detection to final toolpath generation—showing how to reduce programming time, prevent collisions, and ensure consistent results. By automating repetitive tasks and adding safety checks that prevent unintended breakthroughs or hole intersections, shops have cut drilling cycle times by up to 40%. Whether you’re a CNC programmer, manufacturing engineer, or CAM enthusiast, this session will offer an exciting glimpse at how intelligent drilling Automation, Integration, & Customization can boost your productivity and profitability.