We're excited to share that we will be speaking at Autodesk University 2024 - The Design and Make Conference about the digital twin process using our work at Argonne National Laboratory! AU 2024 is in San Diego on October 15–17, and we'd love to see you there!
Our session takes place on Wednesday, October 16th at 12:00pm PDT and is titled "Digitalization Isn't a Track Meet, It's a Marathon: The METL Digitalization Journey".
Session Description:
Advanced nuclear is challenged to design and construct on short timelines, with smaller budgets and fewer workers. Digitalization can help companies overcome these constraints. Unfortunately, a digital twin (DT) is often presented as a monolith. This results in organizations abandoning DTs as having benefits that are minimal or unrealized in time. Many perceive DTs as too large an undertaking to even begin. However, digitalization isn’t a track meet; it’s a marathon of incremental milestones. And, like all races, it has a starting line. This session will summarize a journey that Argonne National Laboratory and Implexus Lab made to digitize the Mechanisms Engineering Test Loop (METL), a test facility for advancing sodium fast reactors. Components were designed with Inventor software and assembled in Navisworks software, and AutoCAD software generated construction documents. Integrating with Revit provided a DT foundation. Ultimately, the suite of Autodesk tools enabled the creation of a DT boasting live data visualization within a virtual reality (VR) environment.
Learning Objectives:
Learn about integrating more than a dozen software tools comprehensively to arrive at a single source of truth.
Learn how to map out from beginning to end a desired digital-twin outcome.
Learn about extracting value at milestones and evolving with technological innovations.
This session is accredited by the American Institute of Architects for continuing education Learning Units (LUs)
If you're already registered for the event, the schedule for classes was just announced via the Digital session catalog. Session enrollment opens on August 1st!
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