Optimise your factory planning and operations

Drive efficiency, transparency, and agility throughout the entire project lifecycle with digital solutions.

A shift in mindset

Whether you’re dealing with an existing brownfield factory or starting from scratch with a greenfield project, you’re always under pressure to ‘do it right the first time’. Transforming your operations into a seamlessly integrated digital ecosystem offers unparalleled benefits: 

Speed up time to market

Enable real-time collaboration between all project stakeholders for greater efficiency and productivity.

Reduce operational costs

Consolidate workflows and break down data silos to reduce costly errors and rework.

Avoid downtime

Continuously monitor and adapt your factory operations based on digital twin insights to ensure optimal performance.

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The digital factory with Autodesk

Experience the power of combining BIM and digital factory design to create a dynamic 3D representation of manufacturing plants and equipment. Our innovative approach enables all stakeholders to collaborate on a single, up-to-date model to seamlessly plan, design, validate, build, and operate factories in real time.
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How industry leaders are digitalizing their processes and transforming factory projects

Want to learn how industry leaders are streamlining their operations with digital factory planning tools? This e-book outlines key facts and figures, innovative solutions, and best practices for di...

Spotlight on Digital Factories

Understand the factors driving a digital revolution in factory design and operations, with data paving the way for more efficient and sustainable manufacturing while digital investments boost produ...

Why digital factories are the future of manufacturing

Explore how digital factories optimise not just manufacturing processes but also the environment that houses them to enable cross-functional coordination, create greater agility to adapt to the cha...

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Driving sustainability through a digital factory approach

Using a digital factory approach, Swedish electric vehicle battery manufacturer Northvolt has optimised its factory design to give architects, engineers, and construction teams full visibility of shared data. This makes operations more efficient, reduces costs, and shows that sustainability and profitability can co-exist.
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Success in action

See how our customers are benefiting from digital factory planning.

“We’ve been able to significantly optimise the factory design, and we can show with numbers pulled from a live model: yes, it is cheaper, it is smaller, it is more efficient.”

Axel Save, Engineering Manager, Northvolt
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 Upcoming events and on-demand content

The following industry events are not to be missed. Save the date and join us. If you weren’t able to attend one of our recent events, here is a selection of on-demand sessions.
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Get in touch with us

Take the next step and find out how factory planning solutions can benefit you.

Demir Ali

Senior Technical Specialist

Lars Björs

Technical Solutions Executive

Peter de Strijker

Senior Technical Specialist

Viessmann | How the Viessmann smart factory pumps up the heat

Heating and air-conditioning specialist Viessmann is using digital factory planning to boost production at its new heat-pump smart factory.

Technica International | Pushing for total transformation

Fuelled by an ambitious growth plan, automated product systems designer Technica International makes big gains in efficiency with the Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Collection.

PMT | Digital transformation for a place under the sun

True sustainability through digital transformation: PMT manufactures aerodynamic photovoltaic substructures – and benefits from digital methods.

Blue Projects | Managing factory project complexity

See how multidisciplinary firm Blue Projects used Revit, Recap Pro, and BIM360 to improve collaboration and reduce errors.

Porsche | For Porsche’s electric-car factory, digital planning means zero impact

To make Porsche’s first electric sportscar, the company used digital factory planning to create a smart, flexible facility – one as green as the car it manufactures.

How gigafactory construction is happening at lightning speed

Gigafactories, or factories that produce electric-vehicle batteries, are being erected in months. How can gigafactory construction be so quick?

ON DEMAND | Autodesk University 2024

This year’s Autodesk University covered a broad range of issues facing the design and manufacturing community in the course of digital transformation. Browse the AU 2024 on-demand session catalogue.

ON DEMAND | Innovation at Work: The Opportunity for Digital Factories

Digital factories promise manufacturers efficiency, innovation, and stability – but only if they are designed, built, and operated thoughtfully. Hear top leaders describe the opportunities on offer.

ON DEMAND | Optimizing the Digital Factory with Data-Driven Strategies

Unlocking a digital factory’s potential demands innovation, collaboration, and data-driven decisions. Hear experts explain how connecting data and teams across disciplines delivers better outcomes.

ON DEMAND | Streamlining Operations for Optimal Factory Returns

Factory operations must adapt so companies can maximise the efficiency and productivity of every asset. Discover data strategies to monitor, automate, and streamline operations for maximum RoI.

ON DEMAND | Design & Manufacturing Industry Keynote

Transformation is an opportunity for design and manufacturing businesses to rethink how they work. Hear Autodesk leaders detail important updates to the Autodesk Fusion platform.

ON DEMAND | ECOFACT Digital Twin Platform: An Energy and Resource Management System for Factories

ECOFACT is a Horizon 2020 project to develop an ECO-innovative energy FACTory management platform for four demo sites serving various industries. In this session you will learn how the project impl...

Digitally transforming the factory lifecycle

A recent Tech-Clarity survey shows that manufacturers commonly miss critical targets including program timelines, project spend, quality, and manufacturing agility goals. These missed targets lead ...

Adopting a modern, start-to-finish factory process

Traditional approaches to factory planning, designing, building, and operating lead to lost data. Learn why companies are going digital to deliver more agility across the factory lifecycle.

How industry leaders are digitizing their processes and transforming factory projects

Learn how to take advantage of integrated collaboration by coordinating the layout of production lines, manufacturing facilities and building systems in a holistic digital model.

MAY 13-14, 2025 | Darmstadt, DE | Autodesk Automotive Innovation Forum 2025

The Automotive Innovation Forum (AIF) is Autodesk’s annual conference and networking event for executives and professionals with a strong focus on innovation, disruptive technologies, and the futur...

Spotlight Digital Factory

Northvolt | Driving sustainability through a digital factory approach

Using a digital factory approach, Swedish electric vehicle battery manufacturer Northvolt has optimised its factory design to give architects, engineers, and construction teams full visibility of s...

The digital factory with Autodesk

Experience the power of combining BIM and digital factory design to create a dynamic 3D representation of manufacturing plants and equipment. Our innovative approach enables all stakeholders to col...

e.GO | A better electric car springs from modern factory design

e.GO manufactures a range of electric vehicles and is also pioneering modern factory design as a key to its business model: its smart factories and single digital platform keep all construction con...

Why digital factories are the future of manufacturing

Explore how digital factories enable cross-functional coordination, create greater agility to adapt to the changing world, and give companies a competitive edge.