Factory Design Utilities is used for early planning and simulation of factory and plant layouts to increase efficiency and stay on budget.
Plan and validate efficient factory layouts with Factory Design Utilities
Available only as part of the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection.
What is Factory Design Utilities?
With Factory Design Utilities software, you can maximise production performance.
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Plan and validate your factory and plant layouts early
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Design your factory and plant layouts in 2D and 3D
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Schedule the installation and commissioning of your equipment
Factory Design Utilities overview (video: 2.47 min.)
Walk through the factory layout during the design review process
Combine all your data for your factory plan in one 3D document
Take a virtual walkthrough of your factory plan before equipment installation
Find potential problems before installation begins
Why use Factory Design Utilities?
Optimise production efficiency
Evaluate production concepts to minimise bottlenecks while planning for current and future outputs.
Launch on time and on budget
Mitigate risks in construction by sequencing and scheduling the installation.
Collaborate better
Effectively collaborate with internal teams as well as outside equipment vendors.
What you can do with Factory Design Utilities
Industrial machinery
Design tools to create, publish, share and manage 3D content for factory and plant layouts. (video: 3.03 min.)
Facilities layout
Design facility layouts. Visualise and detect clashes in large facility layouts. (video: 1.35 min.)
“The biggest benefit of Factory Design Utilities is that this toolkit is so easy to integrate.”
– Jörg Duus, Head of Construction, Feige Filling GmbH
“Factory Design Utilities has allowed us to decrease change orders quite a bit.”
– Chris Hahn, Project Engineering Manager, Dearborn Mid-West Company
“Now our work is much easier because we’re building a library of factories … we can meet our deadlines faster.”
– Assaad Hani, Business Analyst, Technica International
Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
Designers and engineers use Factory Design Utilities to create a digital representation of their factory layout.
Factory Design Utilities provides the flexibility to create and edit your factory layouts in 2D or 3D using AutoCAD or Inventor. Choose from a library of thousands of factory assets to drag into your design. Optimise your layout using material flow analysis tools, check for interferences and schedule the installation of the equipment without leaving the tools included in the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection.
Your Factory Design Utilities subscription gives you access to install and use the three previous versions. Available downloads are listed in your Autodesk Account after subscribing. See also previous releases available for subscribers.
With a subscription to Factory Design Utilities software, you can install it on up to three computers or other devices. However, only the named user can sign in and use that software on a single computer at any given time. Please refer to the Software Licence Agreement (US site).
Launch your trial software and click Subscribe Now on the trial screen or buy Factory Design Utilities here. When buying your subscription, enter the same email address and password combination you used to sign in to your trial. Learn more about converting a trial to a paid subscription.
Factory Design Utilities is available through the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection. The price of the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection subscription is
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