NIO Drives Workflow Efficiency with Autodesk Flow Production Tracking

Blake Avery Blake Avery June 25, 2025

2 min read

At the 2025 Automotive Innovation Forum (AIF25), global EV innovator NIO shared how their team streamlined complex design and engineering workflows using Autodesk Flow Production Tracking — a solution built to support collaboration, transparency and process automation across fast-paced, creative production pipelines.

As NIO scaled its operations to manage more concurrent programs, the need for real-time data to drive highly informed decisions required large amount of high quality data that only could be achieved with automation. And to make automation possible, they needed standardization. That’s where Flow Production Tracking made the difference.

What is Flow Production Tracking?

Autodesk Flow Production Tracking is a studio-proven platform that helps teams manage projects, schedules, resources, and collaboration across global design organizations.

Whether you’re creating concept models or preparing for production, Flow Production Tracking gives you:

In short, Flow Production Tracking connects the creative and operational sides of your business — helping your teams stay focused, on time, and in sync.

Making it Simple: Flow Production Tracking 101

Watch NIOs Efficient Workflows presentation from AIF25

NIO’s Vision for their Design Process

In their AIF25 session, “Efficient Workflows for Informed decisions – NIO,” Chris Falkenhagen and Freddy Seubert described the challenges of the day-to-day design process and how preparing designs for reviews, “while the results were great, the process wasn’t. It was slow, manual and repetitive.”

“Build the ark before the storm”

NIO saw this as a great example for this and many other workflows across design for which they would build their pipeline vision on.

What they needed to do was:

NIO chose to build their design Pipeline on Flow Production Tracking. Flow Production Tracking allowed NIO to “build strong workflows that support their processes and even reach into their PLM system” to coordinate complex production workflows without scaling up management layers.

The result? Faster alignment, greater transparency, and more time spent on innovation — not administration.

Freddy Seubert, Expert Pipeline Developer, NIO
Presenting at AIF25

3 Takeaways of NIO’s Design Pipeline

✔️ Pipeline management standardizes data tracking

✔️ It automates repetitive workflows

✔️ It provides visual creative data to make decisions

Flow Production Tracking gave NIO a platform that adapted as fast as their projects evolved — reinforcing the core AIF25 theme: Adaptability.

Keeping it Simple: Flow Production Tracking in Your Studio

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