Webinar
Using the Digital Twin to Collaborate on Plant Layout and Factory Optimization
June 05, 2025 03:00 PM America/New_York
Manufacturers today are challenged by tighter product development cycles, increasing competition, and a hybrid workforce that needs to collaborate.
Join us as TriMech Product Manager, Joe Hugan and Technical Manager, Kurt Valutis will discuss the Digital Twin environment from Dassault Systemes to leverage existing data, allow remote collaboration, and provide tools to optimize manufacturing operations in terms of cost, space, utilization, and efficiency.
They will include a detailed look at the digital twin toolset and discuss all aspects of implementing these tools within your organization. The goal of the webinar is to enable manufacturing engineers and managers to understand the latest technology in this space and provide a generic plan on how it would be implemented in a prototypical organization.
During this webinar, you will learn:
- The 3DEXPERIENCE Virtual Twin solution from Dassault enables engineers to plan, evaluate, and optimize manufacturing operations without interrupting current production.
- The Plant Layout role facilitates the planning of future states within a plant by visualizing point clouds, existing layouts, and all sources of CAD data in a common, easy-to-navigate environment.
- The Factory Simulation role gives engineers a way to quantify the differences between competing design concepts through data-driven simulations of operations including cycle times, schedules, downtimes, and product variation.
- All of these roles and many more from Dassault are available in the collaborative environment known as the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. This single source of data means everyone on the team always has the latest data to make accurate, timely decisions.
Speaker Spotlight
Joe Hugan
Joe has 35 years experience in lean manufacturing, software development, and facility optimization. His background is a bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Kettering and an MBA from Wayne State University. He has been part of over 600 industrial projects across 45 states and 9 countries using a variety of simulation and engineering tools. He has worked for three software companies and ran his own consulting business for 25 years.
Joe has published numerous papers on simulation and served as the General Chair for the 2010 Winter Simulation Conference. His current role is Product Manager for the Manufacturing Line of Business at TriMech.