# AI-Powered Virtual Twin Experiences Empower Your Organization by Connecting Data, Decisions and Operations Unlocking the Full Potential of Your Most Valuable Asset: Data Inflation, sustainability, supply chain disruptions and the competitive labor market are amongst the global concerns prompting businesses to do more with less. At Dassault Systèmes, we are convinced that data is the most valuable corporate asset. However, organizations have a hard time **unlocking its full potential**. The biggest hurdles to overcome include siloed, disparate and exponential amounts of data that are not readily accessible, making it difficult for organizations to make informed decisions. A company’s most valuable intellectual property resides in its **Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) data**: 3D knowledge, CAD files and product configurations. A single CAD file is more than just a design — it contains the intelligence behind function, shape, and system integration. Yet, this critical knowledge is difficult to reach and rarely accessible when it’s needed most. Why? Because PLM is more complex than ERP, HR, or supply chain systems. AI-driven Virtual Twin on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform To overcome these challenges, Dassault Systèmes brings **data science and artificial intelligence** to the collaborative **3D**EXPERIENCE platform, transforming PLM data into enterprise-wide knowledge. Acting as a robust PLM digital backbone, our AI-driven virtual twin experiences provide virtual companions that support users throughout the product lifecycle. This approach allows teams to manage product complexity and configurations, ensuring seamless continuity from the first concept to real-world in-service performance. With **AI-driven virtual twin experiences**, organizations can: - **Align stakeholders** with a common and understandable view, projecting and navigating knowledge on a dynamic virtual twin - **Explore unlimited what-if scenarios** to anticipate impacts and mitigate risks - **Accelerate decision-making** by combining PLM data with machine learning and generative AI [AI-Powered Virtual Twin Experiences ](/media/24613) Virtual Twin Experiences Key Benefits Break Down Organizational Silos ![](https://www.3ds.com/assets/invest/2024-08/icon-420-silo.png) Empower Users ![](https://www.3ds.com/assets/invest/2024-08/icon-431-creative-engineer.png) Gain Efficiencies ![](https://www.3ds.com/assets/invest/2024-08/icon-413-data-leveraging.png) Addressing the Business Challenges of Diverse Industries Transportation & Mobility Transportation & Mobility Competitive automotive manufacturers must navigate the challenges of balancing sustainability, regulatory requirements and inflation. The high volatility of raw material prices, due to armed conflicts, health crises, climate change, consumer demands and other global factors, complicates the task of aligning vehicle prices with the cost of their components, making it difficult to ensure a return on investment. Renault Group uses **Global Modular Architecture**, an industry solution experience on the **3D**EXPERIENCE platform. It integrates the AI-driven [Material Cost Intelligence ](/newsroom/press-releases/dassault-systemes-developed-new-data-science-solution-allow-renault-group-optimize-vehicle-costs "Dassault Systèmes Developed a New Data Science Solution to Allow Renault Group to Optimize Vehicle Costs")solution, which helps teams to work together across the company, ensuring that design, engineering and quality KPIs are met while maximizing cost efficiency. [NETVIBES VTE T&M](/media/19280) [Discover Global Modular Architecture](https://r1132100503382-eu1-my3dexperience.3dexperience.3ds.com/welcome/compass-world/3dexperience-industries/transportation-and-mobility/global-modular-architecture) Aerospace & Defense Aerospace & Defense Amid rising volatility and disruptions to the global supply chain, it is essential for the aerospace industry to focus on: 1) cutting the cost of goods sold, 2) enhancing efficiencies, 3) speeding up time-to-market and 4) streamlining maintenance, repair, and overhaul operations. [Dassault Aviation](/insights/customer-stories/dassault-aviation-maximizes-fleet-availability "Dassault Aviation") has been using the **Keep Them Operating** solution to increase the availability of its fleet, maximizing usage and efficiency. It provides a single place for customer service, with consolidated access to ALL relevant data, real-time AI-driven customer service actions and best practices for resolution, as well as cross-organization collaboration enabling continuous fleet optimization. [NETVIBES VTE A&D](/media/19281) [Discover Keep Them Operating](https://my.3dexperience.3ds.com/welcome/compass-world/3dexperience-industries/aerospace-and-defense/keep-them-operating) Infrastructure, Energy & Materials Infrastructure, Energy & Materials Thriving in today’s oil and gas industry requires unprecedented productivity, quality and efficiency – and it starts with the companies that build the infrastructure. To stay ahead, oil and gas companies need huge, complex capital facilities delivered not only to the highest quality, but also to increasingly aggressive budgets and schedules. In projects of this scale, even the smallest hitch in the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) process can cause major delays and budget overspend. [L&T Energy Hydrocarbon](/insights/customer-stories/lt-energy-hydrocarbon-engineering-procurement-and-construction "L&T Energy Hydrocarbon ") is a leading provider of EPC services for the energy industry, managing thousands of micro processes to deliver complex projects on tight schedules. It leveraged [Capital-Intensive Project Intelligence](/products/netvibes/ai-optimized-capital-intensive-programs "AI-Optimized Capital-Intensive Programs"), part of the **Capital Facilities Information Excellence** portfolio, to provide a collaborative virtual twin environment that connects the end-to-end EPC value chain. Through the **3D**EXPERIENCE platform, it can integrate and track the progress of multiple projects while improving operational efficiency. [NETVIBES VTE IE&M](/media/19282) [Discover Capital Facilities Information Excellence](https://my.3dexperience.3ds.com/welcome/compass-world/3dexperience-industries/infrastructure-energy-and-materials/capital-facilities-information-excellence) Key Capabilities of Virtual Twin Technology - **Virtual twin experiences** empower businesses to develop and visualize virtual twins of products, processes, and operations by leveraging science-based modeling, simulation, data science and collaboration, ensuring a continuous feedback loop between the virtual and real worlds. - **Semantic AI & virtual companions**: Bridge the gap between natural language and structured business concepts. Using built-in ontologies, our virtual companions support users throughout the lifecycle—helping teams navigate the digital backbone, analyze complex impacts and make informed decisions faster. - **Low-code / no-code analytics**: Empower domain experts to analyze and visualize data without programming skills. - **Digital backbone continuity**: Ensure a seamless thread from initial concept to in-service performance. Manage complex product configurations with AI-driven virtual companions that analyze impacts and accelerate decision-making across the entire lifecycle. [AI-Driven BOM Intelligence](/media/24309) Data-driven Use Cases Our solutions empower stakeholders across the enterprise to act on contextualized insights: Data-driven quality management Ensure full coverage between requirements and test cases while optimizing costs and timing Data-driven engineering change management Augment engineers to optimize complex portfolio changes while reducing development costs Data-driven BOM management Streamline bills of materials with real-time insights, eliminate EBOM/MBOM gaps and ensure full traceability in one unified solution ## Customer Case Studies Learn how leading companies are using data science solutions on the **3D**EXPERIENCE platform to address critical business challenges. ## Start Your Journey The world of product development is changing. Discover how to stay a step ahead with the **3D**EXPERIENCE platform. AI-Powered Virtual Twin Experiences FAQs What are virtual twin experiences? Virtual twin experiences go beyond a simple digital twin. They combine data, AI, and simulation to create a dynamic, contextualized view of products, processes, and systems across the enterprise. See "NETVIBES a Pillar of the Virtual Twin Experience" video above. Why is PLM data considered a company’s most valuable asset? PLM data contains critical intellectual property: design intelligence, system integration, material knowledge, and more. Unlocking it with AI allows organizations to reuse, optimize, and scale this knowledge across teams. How can AI improve the use of PLM data? AI enables organizations to extract hidden insights, detect patterns, and simulate scenarios. Different siloed teams (engineering, manufacturing and other teams) can collaborate in the early stages of product development or design, to eliminate errors through a single source of truth. Can virtual twin experiences reduce operational costs? Beyond just "doing things faster," virtual twin experiences allow you to build cost-efficiency into the product’s DNA. By connecting data across the lifecycle, we reduce the rework and material waste that eat into margins. This visibility empowers your team to make smarter decisions earlier—for instance, allowing sourcing managers to assess the financial viability of design scenarios in real time to ensure the most cost-effective path to market. Do I need AI expertise to use these solutions? The **3D**EXPERIENCE platform provides low-code / no-code analytics, empowering domain experts to analyze and act on data without requiring programming skills. Also, with the help of virtual companions and natural language interfaces, interacting with the platform is as intuitive as having a conversation, allowing you to focus on engineering and business outcomes rather than the underlying code. How do virtual twin experiences contribute to sustainability goals? Virtual twin experiences transform sustainability from a final "report" into a core design trade-off. By anchoring CO2 reduction targets at the strategic level, these objectives become traceable throughout the entire development process. This allows teams to evaluate the environmental impact of materials and architectures alongside cost and performance in real time. Instead of treating sustainability as an afterthought, you are building it into the product's DNA from the very first concept—leading to reduced waste and optimized energy efficiency by design. Can analytics be applied to any stage of product development? Yes. Analytics can monitor requirement coverage, track BOM maturity, analyze cost impacts, and even simulate sustainability trade-offs — all within the same platform. 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