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Optimise and future-proof your digital factories

The manufacturing sector faces significant challenges as it looks ahead to the future, including rapidly changing customer needs, operational silos which limit cohesion, and an increasingly urgent push to reach carbon neutrality.

To remain both relevant and competitive in an increasingly data- dependant landscape, businesses in the space must transform to become more digitally driven, flexible, innovative and resilient while driving greater sustainability across the entire value chain.

Within this context of change, digital factories offer manufacturers key opportunities to operate more efficiently and with greater precision, while reducing costs and creating a more collaborative, safe working environment.

Already, 93% of companies are relying on technology solutions to increase operational efficiency for new product development and create the foundation for more flexible manufacturing in the future.1 And over 75% of manufacturing executives believe that more could be done to improve the collaboration between engineering and supply chain teams.2

Realising the vision of truly optimised digital factories means embracing more advanced technology and capabilities to create a single source of truth across the manufacturing process, breaking down currently siloed operations and bringing a greater sense of collaboration between stakeholders. This requires a strategic platform and ecosystem enabler to bring a continuously flexible and data-driven approach to your digital factory performance.

1 https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveevans/2022/06/14/2022-state-of-manufacturing-digital-is-the-foundation-for-future-growth 2 Ibid

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To shift to a digital factory future, businesses require more integrated manufacturing processes, bringing together infrastructure, design, commissioning, and wider operations for a more cohesive approach driven by data.

Manufacturers need teams, workflows and insights aligned and connected on a unified, cloud-based platform that can improve communications and accelerate decision-making.

Integrated factory modelling combines BIM and digital factory planning to generate a digital representation of production facilities and equipment, offering huge potential to reimagine what is possible. Multi-disciplinary project contributors can collaborate in this central, always-up-to-date model to plan, design, validate, build, and operate factories.

You’ll also gain the capabilities to create intelligent, accurate digital 3D models of your projects’ real-world environments and share concepts with stakeholders in a simple and visual way. With a central location of reliable data across your entire ecosystem, you can more easily manage quality and safety issues from one place, improve efficiency, and reduce environmental impact.

Overcome digital factory challenges with a unified, modern platform

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4 key benefits of a digital factory

Working closely together towards common goals

Increase digital collaboration across every line of business to rapidly accelerate project delivery with end-to-end digital and data-driven capabilities supported by a common data environment. With easy exchange and approval of data, you can gain greater visibility, traceability and accountability, accelerate decision-making and increase the probability of a positive outcome.

Keeping up with customers’ changing needs

Customer needs are evolving constantly, and you need to stay agile so that you can quickly adapt to changes in market requirements. Develop future-proof factories by planning and predicting production scenarios ahead of time to deliver more customised, value-driven customer products and experiences. Get support for ongoing innovation with flexible production processes to connect R&D and production teams and increase your ROI.

Safer and more secure with complete transparency

With the real-time visibility to predict and forecast solutions before they are implemented, alongside the ability to predict production issues, errors and delays before they arise, you’ll be supported with smarter and more reliable manufacturing operations. The ability to analyse, identify and prioritise risk factors in one platform also enables you to prevent industrial accidents and reduce occupational safety and health issues, ensuring compliance with government requirements.

Reducing your carbon footprint and shifting to sustainable manufacturing

Increasing consumer demand for greener products3, positive impacts on the corporate bottom line4, and government regulations on carbon emissions: sustainable manufacturing is no longer an option, and a digital factory facilitates that through technology. For example, generative design enables you to source environment-friendly raw materials, and greatly reduce the time required for iterative problem-solving. You can also make more sustainable choices during operations using real-time actionable insights generated by digital twins, and effectively track energy usage through automation.

e.GO5 realised money and time savings with integrated factory modelling while gaining the visibility and control to identify errors more quickly. The business has become more efficient and connected as a result.

“With this integrated factory design, we can save up to 35% of overall costs. Errors can be detected at an early stage, and the time allocated for design and construction is significantly reduced.” Matthias Bertling, Senior Manager of Factory Planning, e.GO

Porsche6 constructed a new ‘factory within a factory’ in just a few months to shift to a more connected digital co-ordination model.

“Lots of people underestimate how forward-compatible the digital- coordination model is. It’s not just the basis for planning; it will stay with us for the entire life of the building.” Till Moczarski, Project Manager for Digital Planning, Porsche

3 https://www.bain.com/about/media-center/press- releases/2022/2022-apac-consumer-sustainability-report/

4 https://www2.deloitte.com/global/en/pages/risk/articles/2021- climate-check-business-views-on-environmental-sustainability.html

5 https://redshift.autodesk.com/articles/modern-factory-design 6 https://redshift.autodesk.com/articles/digital-factory-planning

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Why Autodesk is the right partner for your organisation By modernising your processes and making the most of digital factories, you’ll become more efficient, reduce costs, and deliver more sustainable products and better customer experiences.

As your strategic partner for an integrated digital factory solution, we’ll bring you:

A comprehensive portfolio and connected AEC and D&M platforms to realise industry convergence:

Autodesk spans both manufacturing and construction industries. This gives you greater support for communication and integration of production line planning, construction, infrastructure, and factory operation. We’ll also enable data created during the design phase to be used to support your physical asset management.

A lower total cost of ownership:

Reduce costs for software — and hardware if you need an on-premise solution. Our products have a high market share and are used by a large number of engineers, bringing a strong sense of familiarity. This means that the training and onboarding required to use our tools is more cost effective and because we have a large community of users, we can support lower cost of hiring.

A strategy to deliver rapid ROI:

Autodesk works closely with you to apply proven methods to help you choose which objectives to prioritise. Our solutions are customised according to your digital factory’s maturity and customers’ biggest challenges.

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Build a truly unified digital factory ecosystem to turn today’s challenges into tomorrow’s opportunities. Working together we can help you achieve seamless collaboration, data-driven decision-making, and increased flexibility to plan, design, and build the digital factories of the future – and you’ll have the tools you need to design and manufacture better products, drive long-term growth and achieve your sustainability goals.

Speak to us today to learn how you can meet your customer expectations through optimised, digital factory capabilities.

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