Autodesk University India & SAARC 2014 will be held in September in Mumbai. What can Indian manufacturing professionals expect at this event?
Autodesk University is the world's largest learning and networking event for Autodesk product users. This renowned industry event aims to help design and engineering professionals improve their skills and enhance productivity. This is a platform where Autodesk will showcase its best R&D efforts and latest technology innovation that will be the gateway to the future. This year we are doing it in India which has been one of the most encouraging and steadily growing markets for Autodesk.
The preparations are in full swing and we will ensure it to be a great experience for everyone who attends. It will be bigger and better than the event we had last year in December which was the Autodesk University Extension.
Aggressive innovations in design technology are transforming the way we make things. Promising new technologies, such as additive manufacturing, 3D printing and advanced robotic automation, have the potential to change how objects are fabricated and assembled. New open and crowd sourcing platforms are helping in evolving and transforming the tools and workflows of manufacturing. Intelligent materials will enable manufacturers to create products with fantastic new properties.
We have a slew of new technologies that are going to be unveiled this time at the event. The manufacturing industry is undergoing a big transformation, especially in the area of 3D printing. At the Autodesk University, we have the Automotive Innovation Forum where manufacturing professionals can learn to design, create and manufacture with the help of digital prototyping and also watch demos of the latest technologies being offered in the automotive sector. Also, we are launching the Spark 3D printer which will use both the software and hardware designed by Autodesk.
Earlier in May this year, Autodesk released its 2015 Design Suites in India. Tell us about it.
Autodesk unveiled new Digital Prototyping software - geared specifically for manufacturers - that will deliver affordable access to the complete Autodesk portfolio of solutions. The 2015 Autodesk Manufacturing design suites are comprised of Autodesk Product Design Suite (PrDS), Autodesk Factory Design Suite (FDS), data management offerings and a comprehensive Simulation and software portfolio. Both Suites include an enhanced version of Autodesk Inventor, which brings impactful additions to the 3D modelling environment, while also delivering a strong package of productivity improvements.
Autodesk 2015 Design Suites feature tighter integration with Autodesk cloud services. The 2015 Design Suites offer the ability to collaborate, simulate, analyse and more, with just one click from within the suite. One of the things designers traditionally struggled with is the amount of processing power required to run powerful and sophisticated simulations. If you do not have state-of -the- art hardware, running simulations becomes tedious and cumbersome. This is where the practically infinite processing power of cloud plays a crucial role. Autodesk is helping its customers transition from a PC-centric world to an environment where, through mobile and cloud technologies, the user is at the computing centre of their world.
For the automobile manufacturing industry, CAD enabled digital prototyping is already saving huge sums of money for automakers by accelerating the manufacturing process as they no longer are limited to creating and testing physical prototypes. Now a digital prototype of a car can be used to explore, visualise and model a product even before it is made and can be tested for safety, resilience, durability, balance, performance at the click of a button. Products like Autodesk Alias enables seamless flow of surfaces all the way from the designer's initial sketch to production.
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