An engineering team needs better control over design data. Manufacturing wants approved product information delivered faster. Sales needs a better way to configure increasingly complex products. Leadership wants confidence that every department is working from the same information. That was the challenge facing this North American manufacturer...

Throughout the years, Autodesk has rolled out significant updates that have refined Vault’s capabilities, transforming how engineering teams collaborate and manage project data efficiently. Let’s explore the pivotal upgrades and new features introduced in Autodesk Vault from 2018 through to the latest 2025 release.

It’s time to revitalize American manufacturing now.  There’s so much at stake here. In March 2022, the manufacturing sector employed 12,657,000 people with an average income of $92,832. Taken alone, manufacturing in the US would be the eighth-largest economy globally.  A failing manufacturing sector would hit the US economy hard. The ripple effects would impact […]

Do you keep your design files in a shared network drive? How about a cloud storage solution like Dropbox or OneDrive, an old-fashioned filing cabinet, or locked away in old emails you’ve sent to yourself or others? If so, you need product data management consulting. PDM (product data management) consulting is the practice of helping […]

As covered in our previous blog post, Demand-Side Trends and Digital Manufacturing Technologies, automation is poised to play a pivotal role in the future of manufacturing. In a space where employment rates are falling steadily, automation can, in fact, help increase retention and attract top talent back to the industry.  In this post, we’re going […]

It’s no secret that technology is transforming the manufacturing space. Each year, new digital manufacturing technologies are becoming staples of the sector–changing the industry for the better in myriad ways.  Which developments are most important for your business and what impact could they have on your operations? In this post, we’ll share our predictions for […]

It’s no surprise that starting a business can be challenging but starting a manufacturing business comes with its own set of obstacles. Manufacturing requires high upfront and ongoing operating costs and is continuously evolving as processes improve. A manufacturing startup must be flexible and ready to meet the demands of the market. This article explores […]

I’ve never met a manufacturer that takes pleasure in managing, structuring, and migrating their engineering and design files. It can be a time-consuming, budget-swallowing, catastrophe-laden process that distracts designers and engineers from doing their best work. But technology changes fast, and new software relegates old, making engineering data management software and data migration an inevitable feature […]

Check out this review to understand the past trainings and the next steps that we will cover in this blog. In the first webinar session of this series, we went over how to get started with Visual Studio. Our second session walks through how to create basic geometry in Inventor API. Finally, the last session covers pushing values to inventor parameters.    In this blog, we […]