Towards the Factory of the Future

Foster innovation, streamline operations, and mitigate risks—all so products and solutions that improve patients’ lives get to market faster.

The answer is data

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Forget “business as usual.” For real impact in pharmaceutical manufacturing, you need a modern approach grounded in data-driven insights. Connect your teams across the entire factory value chain with a common data environment (CDE), so you can capture every design, construction, and manufacturing decision from the beginning.
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Delivering high-quality medicines and vaccines 

Trade siloed workflows and data loss for seamless collaboration and more powerful insights.

Speed up time to market

Move faster, from concept to completion

Streamline production workflows

Bring flexibility to every process

Enable innovation

Gain a competitive advantage

See how

Digital transformation in pharmaceutical manufacturing: “Success takes more than just technology”

With challenges ranging from regulatory compliance to gaps in internal communication, pharmaceutical manufacturers are under intense pressure. Two Autodesk experts discuss how digitalization can help — and why change is taking so long.

Skills in the age of AI

Skills training is essential to the future of work. To succeed, companies need to develop talent that can master the tools of future innovation. Helping your employees develop new skills is key to making your business as successful as you want it to be.

Rethinking manufacturing in the healthcare sector

Price pressure, market access, increased regulatory demands, and supply-chain complexity have accelerated the need for innovation. Find out how to make sure you’re ready: streamline your facto...

Why digital plants are the future of pharmaceutical manufacturing

Deliver real-world impact: faster time to market, more agile processes, increased personalization. Taking the first steps is simple in theory, but, as in most manufacturing processes, complex ...

Data and digitization are revolutionizing factories

At the exciting intersection of AI and automated processes, advanced machines and robots, and extended reality (XR) technologies, modern factories—often risk-averse—are making tremendous leaps towa...

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Best practice

Leaders across industries are pioneering ways of getting the most out of the digital factory. Find out how in the success stories below.
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Digital Factory Symposium

Autodesk University 2024 held a Digital Factory Symposium at which experts from industry and from Autodesk discussed key topics. Watch the highlights 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. Watch top leaders describe the opportunities on o...

Optimizing the Digital Factory with Data-Driven Strategies

Unlocking a digital factory’s potential requires innovation, collaboration, and data-driven decisions. Listen to experts explain how connecting data and teams across disciplines delivers bette...

Streamlining Operations for Optimal Factory Returns

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

Compete on chemistry,
collaborate on delivery

“Most of the major pharma manufacturers agree: if we standardize data requests, establish common values and success metrics, share project delivery knowledge and challenges openly, collaborate with delivery partners like EPCM and AEC from the outset, and request common data standards, then we can accelerate industry-wide digital transformation.”
Josh Lobel, Subject Matter Expert, Autodesk

Contact us

Get in touch with us to discuss how digital factory planning can help your healthcare organization improve patients' lives faster. We'd love to hear from you!

Blue Projects | Managing factory project complexity

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

Helm Mechanical | Improving the outcomes of highly complex industrial projects

How Helm Mechanical wins more work by achieving lean workflows and simplifying the digital exchange of information across project teams.

Roche | A biotech giant maximizes the benefit from its real estate assets

To develop its products, Roche owns numerous real estate assets that it manages itself and with third parties. It aims to create, use, and sustain these assets as efficiently as possible.

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.

Porsche | Where 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.

Airplan | The power of the cloud in engineering applied to life-science

Airplan, a company specializing in turnkey design, engineering, and installation solutions for life-science industries, has increased its productivity by 30% thanks to the implementation of BIM wit...

Milton Keynes University Hospital | Redefining data strategy with BIM

By using the Autodesk Construction Cloud, MKUH opened the door to cross-functional collaboration and digitalization efforts, ultimately delivering an enhanced patient experience.

Skarnes, Inc. | The power of 3D modeling

This material handling case study examines how a simulation model validated a proposal by Skarnes, Inc., forecasting a 43% increase in throughput.

Spotlight on Digital Factories

How industry leaders are digitalizing 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.

Quadrillion Partners | A new strategic planning process for fast, data-driven decisions

Tech consulting firm Quadrillion used a simulation model to help its manufacturing client respond to changed circumstances.

Formula for agile pharmaceutical manufacturing

Creating excellence in plant construction and operation with a digital factory approach! Aging populations, growth in emerging markets, and the rise of personalized medicine are all driving increa...

Spotlight on skills in the age of AI

Skills training is essential to the future of work. To succeed, companies need to develop talent that can master the tools of future innovation. Helping your employees develop new skills is key to ...

Unispace Lifescience | Improving project outcomes with digital transformation

Unispace Lifescience, based in Cork, Ireland, delivers design and construction projects for pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, advanced therapeutics, medical device, and other life sciences compani...

Why digital plants are the future of pharmaceutical manufacturing

Deliver real world impact: faster speed to market, more agile processes, increased personalization—and more! Taking the first steps are simple in concept, but, as in most manufacturing processes, c...