Comprehensive product portfolio features enhanced usability and productivity
At its Global Product Launch event yesterday, Autodesk unveiled the latest versions of its manufacturing solutions, which help customers redefine the product development process by experiencing their ideas before they are real. With updates to Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD Electrical, Autodesk AliasStudio, Autodesk Showcase and Autodesk Productstream software products, the company is offering a complete approach to digital prototyping that allows manufacturers to cost-effectively validate their ideas and foster product innovation.
"As the largest and most trusted global supplier of engineering software, Autodesk is committed to providing companies with the world's most innovative 2D and 3D applications," said Robert "Buzz" Kross, vice president of Autodesk Manufacturing Solutions. "We have updated our products to help manufacturers leverage the power of functional design to make it fast and easy to do more digital prototyping. This allows them to bring new products to market faster, without the expense and waste of multiple physical prototypes."
According to industry research firm Aberdeen Group, best-in-class manufacturers build half the number of physical prototypes than the average manufacturer does and get products to market 58 days faster with nearly 50 percent lower prototyping costs.* Product development efforts can be undermined by paper-based processes and departmental systems' incompatibility, isolating insight and information at various stages and points in a manufacturing organisation.
The latest Autodesk manufacturing solutions redefine the product design process by supporting and natively connecting all of the disciplines involved in product development, from industrial design to mechanical and electrical engineering and manufacturing. Autodesk manufacturing applications' functionality and interoperability create an environment in which industrial designers can create and share digital concept models with engineers, who can use functional design to automatically generate 3D geometry for a digital prototype that seamlessly incorporates mechanical and electrical engineering data. With the help of a comprehensive data management system, tightly integrated calculations, stress analysis and motion simulation, engineers can test digital prototypes, optimise and validate their designs, and give customers the opportunity to experience a product's performance before it is built. Furthermore, files in the DWF file format deliver rich design data in digital format to the shop floor.
